We’ve been following Scarlett Johansson’s music career because she covered Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits (with Dave Sitek), and because other reasons. Her latest endeavor is the Break Up LP, a set of Serge Gainsbourg/Brigitte Bardot-inspired duets with Pete Yorn, which so far has turned up the surprisingly effervescent and playful ditty “Relator.” It’s spelled terribly, maybe to help with its Google index, although then again projects involving ScarJo need little help in dominating internet search rankings. The track’s official clip has Pete and Scarlett loving each other and wanting to be left alone, being relatorably couple-y and unrelatorably attractive, bringing some visuals to the pair’s considerable chemistry. It may be unexpected that they sound so good together; that they look good together is probably a little less so.
Break Up is out 9/8 via Atco/Rhino.
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this song is great. this video is great. Relator is spelled great. peace.
Boy, they sure are jealous of She & Him, aren’t they?
scarjo seems cool in this. this is the type of pete music ive been waiting for since musicforthemorningafter.
whats this have to do with she and him? their music is not similar at all. actually this was made before she and him ever existed.
Um. They have nothing at all in common, musically. While you’re making sweeping generalizations, why don’t you compare them to The Kills or The White Stripes. Ugh, children.
yeah. that didn’t reply where it was supposed to… @starFox
don’t think starfox was necessarily referring to a musical comparison of both duos. probably just the fact that each group features a starlett / songwriter pairing. not that far-fetched of a comparison if you ask me. but way to be rude for no reason.
Maybe nothing in common musically, but I could be talked into a threesome with both.
this is making me horny
Since everybody’s calling her scarjo, I’m surprised no ones thought to call him peyo yet.
thats cos he’s PY.
She sure is camera conscious while she’s singing.
I thought the first bit of the song was part of the advertisement… I would so get on her!
This is kind of nice – but it’s one of those situations where there’s so much other great music out there that there’s no reason to listen to it. Maybe if there were an indie-music-armageddon I would go pick this up.
Wait…so because there’s so much good music out there, you don’t want to listen to any more good music?
No – because there’s so much GREAT music out there I don’t want to listen to slightly-above-average music.
pretentious twat
Hot. And yes was recorded long before She and Him. You think writing catchy music that is actually good, is easy? No. I dig this. Look forward to hearing the rest.
I think this is a typo. The song is about Real Estate agents, and is supposed to say Realtor.
She should be in the movie I’m actually paying to see…
Better than She & Him, IMO.
bubblegum pop
Come on. Tell me nobody else is getting a Ryan Adams feel from this. To Be Young? I kind of like it. She can sing to me anytime.
I don’t like this. there’s something not genuine about her and i feel it a lot in her recent movies and her other music video. blah blah blah wah wah wah cwy cwy cwy
It’s amazing how Zooey Deschanel looks so different after that Top Chef episode.
I am bono and i approve this post.
There is nothing remotely Gainsbourgian about this.
Thank you. I have no idea why this comparison keeps coming up.
i didn’t like her voice in her previous project but these shorter lighter vocal burst sound great. i like it.
i really like this. i think the record is gonna be great.
awful song. If she weren’t a famous actress this wouldn’t get the time of day.
This is some powerful management at work…. or possible powerful agent-ment. I’m glad someone has finally maximized this brand’s potential.
is it weird that I watched this on mute.’cause I couldn’t find the TV remote.. and really don’t care to rewatch it and turn the sound on… and probably won’t?
Relator is spelled correctly and is a word. Check out the definition from http://www.dictionary.com
re?la?tor??/r??le?t?r/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ri-ley-ter] Show IPA
Use relator in a Sentence
?noun 1. a person who relates or tells; narrator.
2. Law.
a. a private person on whose suggestion or complaint certain writs, as a quo warranto, are issued and whose position is analogous to that of a plaintiff.
b. a party in interest who is allowed to institute a proceeding in the name of a public official when the right to sue rests exclusively in that official.
They are defintely trying to be like She and Him, but Scarlett’s voice is not even close to as good as Zooey’s.
luvin dis song,n luv scarletts voice