Nude as the News

"Nude as the News"
Single by Cat Power
from the album What Would the Community Think
B-side	Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down
Released	December 12, 1996
Format	CD5, 7"
Genre	Indie rock
Label	Matador Records OLE-240 (Europe only) OLE-202 (Europe only)
Writer(s)	Chan Marshall
Cat Power singles chronology
Nude as the News (1996) "He War" (2003)

"Nude as the News" is a song by the American singer/songwriter, Cat Power (a.k.a. Chan Marshall). It is the fourth song on her 1996 album, What Would the Community Think. It was released as a single, and a music video shot entirely in black and white and directed by Brett Vapnek.

The song is autobiographical and tells the story about an abortion that Marshall had when she was twenty. The chorus lyric “Jackson, Jesse, I’ve got a son in me” references the names of the children of one of Marshall's heroes, Patti Smith.^[1]

The b-side "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down" is a composition of the two songs "Schizophrenia" by Sonic Youth and "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" by Skip Spence.

Track listing

1. "Nude as the News" (Chan Marshall) – 4:23
2. "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down" – 2:49

"Schizophrenia" written by Thurston Moore

"Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" written by Alexander Spence

External links

• "Nude as the News" music video at AOL (Adobe Flash video)

References

1. ^ "The New Yorker". December 10, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/12/10/071210crmu_music_frerejones. Retrieved October 30, 2011.