A few weeks ago, Willie Nelson covered a Coldplay song for a Chipotle online video. That was pretty weird! Now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O has covered the classic Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings duet "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" for a different Chipotle online video, and it's slightly less weird this time around.
Karen's prettily spectral version of the song soundtracks Abandoned, a short film from director David Altobelli. It starts out with kids busting into a vacant farmhouse and demolishing shit, and it turns into a soulful meditation on the plight of the American farmer. It's actually pretty affecting, and it's part of Boorito, Chipotle's unfortunately monikered Farm Aid benefit campaign. Watch it below.
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Karen O's theatrical piece Stop The Vergins, which she's calling a "psycho-opera," opens tonight at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. Vulture has a good interview with her about it.
