Here’s something about singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler that nobody ever mentions for some reason: She is a stone cold fox. That foxiness is very much in evidence in her video for “In Your Lair, Bear,” the opening track from her self-titled 2011 album. The entire clip consists of soft-focus shots of Nadler swanning around a house. Nothing much happens, but all six minutes are worth watching. I’m just saying. Alec K. Redfearn directs. Watch it below.
(via Disco Naïveté)
Marissa Nadler is out now on Box Of Cedar and available at eMusic.
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I think I know a reason why people usually don’t emphasize Nadler’s foxiness: it’s irrelevant.
She’s not bad looking, but let’s not lose our minds here. I don’t how she rates higher than 7.
Anyhow, the music’s a big improvement over back when she was trying to be Mazzy Star. Not really my thing, but whatever.
She’s no LDR.
Honestly though, after Nadler’s comments (well publicised on this site) about LDR, I’m pretty surprised Stereogum chose to focus on her “foxiness” in this video. Nadler went out of her way to attack LDR for seeming to endorse exactly that kind of image-centric publicity. It seems like a bit of a double standard, not to say possibly disrespectful to Nadler’s own views (if I can assume her Facebook comments represented her views), to describe her in that kind of language, or imply she is using her sex appeal to sell records. I’m not saying she’s not sexy or that sexiness is not important in the popularity of musicians of any gender, or judging anyone for using it; it seems like LDR is consciously pushing her sex appeal as a promotional tool, and that’s ok, she seems to know what she’s doing. But it doesn’t, to me, seem like Nadler is especially trying to portray herself in a sexualised way, maybe in a coyly sensous way, but still, I guess I’m just tired of every single female artist being seen as a sex object. It doesn’t seem like that’s really the point of this video; although it might be there, I don’t think Nadler’s attractiveness is really the main thing this video is trying to communicate. Maybe go have a cold shower, Tom Breihan. ;)