cat power - cross bones style

[backstabber1987]

u don't get it, do u?...

[Qwerty63]

This song is simply amazing... heard it while watching Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. A great documentary by Jim White with great soundtrack

[yr06jcrawley]

Sad, subtle, sexy, succulent, slinky, seductive...

[She33z]

i don't like this type of music, singing...all of it, but "de gustibus est non disputandum". the thing that i don't understand is why do they jump so much in this video? i mean, choreography is ridiculous! O_o

[lievenf]

Yes!  I'm number 1000! (y)

[Mr1991ladarius]

When I first heard this song, I thought it was Beth Orton because Cat Power's voice and style is a little similar to Beth Orton's.

[CaptainGalacticMusic]

This was 44 on Stylus magazines top 100 greatest videos of all time. The reviewer says it's a knock of Madonna's lucky star.

[IlHikariIl]

1:04 that's racist man... 

[polisherci]

She's so young here :)

[TaylorRama]

It's Madonna's Lucky Star you dingos . Chan mentioned it once in an interview. It's and ode to Madonna.

[53redcobra]

Chan is sooo lovely and sexy here...and I love it that she's never liked wearing shoes.

[nthanifalasi]

its Madonna, " dont tell me"

[selinakyle]

I wonder why the lipgloss on the bottom lip only thing never caught on? I'm gonna do that from now on, with yellow nailpolish! :P

[Safitea]

So far I've seen INXS, that awful Macarena thing, Madonna (in a box), ChaCha Slide, Talking Heads maybe....

[taffysaur]

who... the... FUCK disliked this!?

>=0(

[wpcooper1978]

@taffysaur 27 dickheads!

[taffysaur]

it's a tribute to madonna's 'lucky star'. i'm sure you can find it on youtube.

this is teh one girl i would actually marry.

[monkeyxx]

I love how she runs away at the end

[Heartlikearock87]

lol shes mocking chinese people XD

[Heartlikearock87]

shes so adorable when she had short hair :) . love herrrrrrr

[MadeinChinakiki]

the rollerskate part before1:32 can be found in Michael Jackson's 'Bad'

[LucidDream]

She's cool any way you look at it. I love Chan very much.

[chippy783]

I drink and I'm not cool

[skywise404]

I miss the old Chan. Really brings back memories but i still love everything she puts out. We have grown up together.

[robras6]

drinking did not make her cool!!!! she was cool and she drank.......

[tacolabeanz]

@robras6 Don't judge... you'd have to know her.

[tacolabeanz]

@robras6 Sorry, meant to reply to aleatrictv...

[aleatorictv]

She was so much cooler when she drank a lot. Just sayin'.

[tacolabeanz]

@aleatorictv Don't judge... you'd have to know her.

[iamfrantv]

@schmucklos from wikipedia: Though never released as a single, a music video directed by Brett Vapnek was made for the song. Marshall has cited the video for Madonna's "Lucky Star" as an influence. In a 1998 interview with Index, she explained, "I'm thinking of making that the single and doing a full-on "Lucky Star" style video. Like Madonna, dancing in a white room. I'm sure I'll chicken out though." [2]

[BigballzDeep]

She's my babies mama

[cockofthenorth]

She's mocking Chinese people at 1:04!

[snowkittin1]

this huants me after all these years, still remember watching this on rage and being breathtaken WOW I love cat power

[pimpcess21]

shes so beautiful

[gerbschmitt]

she looks like Keanu's little brother in Rivers's Edge crossed with Tara Reid.

[gerbschmitt]

"meet new friends, tie some yarn, thats how you do the Micheal Scarn."

[amuser21]

I was going to mention how beautiful she is but you all did that for me. Thanks.

[SuperRARRR]

this is the most attractive woman in music. i would turn gay for her, and i'm a 13 year old girl

[soren1435]

@SuperRARRR Oh God so would I!!!!!! She's so beautiful and her music is amazing... <3

[wrm1943]

I saw this clip on tv a while ago and my jaw dropped,could not believe how beautiful this woman is,and as for the singing,oh my god.I have a few album's now and cannot get enough of catpower,thanx Chan.

[mellokittyx4]

if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all. All Chan <3 All the Time.

[slye1991]

This has the 90's written all over it

[TrenTehGreat]

I think I'll go learn how to ride skates now.

[XxbanimeluvrxX]

if only she were a lez.

[muck47]

@XxbanimeluvrxX thank god shes not

[blackLiquidTokyoska]

@XxbanimeluvrxX i have thought this so many times ;)

[tacolabeanz]

@XxbanimeluvrxX Woah there! :)

[LunaSeaSane]

... she'd be the road to succesz.

[arnoldtheduck]

What's Cameron Frye doing playing drums? Wasn't he in that band that did 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?

[TheFreshPeddler]

@arnoldtheduck - uh u mean nirvana lol. cameron frys was ferris beullers depressed friend. nirvana had 6-7 drummers before dave grohl

[altairateu]

1 - my impression or there is a OM in this song?

2- what does she mean? i'm dumb so i dont really get the meaning of this song. it seems she's asking for protection to a soldier or something... like society does with our children

[webster670]

schumcklos - I read an interview with her before this was made in which she said she wanted to make a video like Lucky Star. Then she said she would probably chicken out. Thankfully, she didn't.

[bitcheata]

those five girls ruined this fabulous song

[SuperMrTaro]

Im totaly in love again. dammn. she is stunning.

[7162mrrdub]

the purist indie artist of all time

[hhhaller]

great to see Chan dance & sing

[10hannahbanana14]

i love cat power she is soooo cool! :)

[ronnyboy1988]

what a beautifully simple video, the music speaks for itself.

[soothuglifesmile]

@MarijuanaMichelle what's there to understand? o_0

[soothuglifesmile]

as if non-dancing Chan wasn't sexy enough... God, i love her

[BethanyRose211]

this is slightly retarded.

but oh well, i love the song. (:

[spekinewicz]

of course the problem is the medium itself. Music videos rarely enhance; they usually detract. At the beginning of MTV, Zappa said that the music video would make models musicians and put *musicians* out of work. I was surprised to find Chan Marshall even participating in the medium, even if to 'parody' it.

[FatherGoose87]

Awesome car ride song

[shadul]

never saw this video in my life..... anyway i like it dont know why??!?!

well i guess theres some dark silence in this song and at the same time cool listening

[MrMelick]

OFMG The drummer has a mullet

[spekinewicz]

@fooberdoobs : evidently you've been trained well with that kind of knee jerk. No, the point wasn't a lack of hotness, but rather an excess of drabness and ineptitude, as though they are are somehow underrepresented in the world. Whatever deconstruction this video may have intended seems moot.

[ronnysoeberg]

@spekinewicz Seeing as music videos to this day feature gorgeous morons doing moronic things with positively SPARKLING enthusiasm makes me think that drabness and ineptitude is still considered a scarce commodity. 90% of the music videos produced today are rap videos where hulking huge muscular guys throw wads of dollar bills at scantly clad sexy "bitches" doing outrageous moves and shaking their badonks.. Bring on the average looking girls and laziness, I say.

[MrMelick]

This videos cracks me up every time.

[ebonyyrosee]

i absolutely loooove this band. love love love. and i love this type of singing. my favourite song now. i like her longer hair haha.

[tunetank]

will u marry me, Chan Marshall?

[sugarkang]

Yeah when this came out, she was super hot. This was around that time she wasn't doing her shows properly though.

[neotri45]

k-os got inspiration from this song for his song "dirty water". "ohh how time flies with crystal clear eyes"

[ButzisAroma]

The video was loosely inspired by Madonna's Lucky Star video. It was shot and directed by a close friend of Chan's who years later would help Chan into hospital and off of alcohol.

[spekinewicz]

"I read somewhere that this video is parody" Christ, I certainly hope so. This song is so good and to then associate it with these 5 frumpy washedout "dancers" straight out of an osteoporosis medicine or tampon commercial is cruel to the viewer.

[fooberdoobs]

@spekinewicz yeah, because this would only be a good video if it was full of young, curvy, big-titty, scantily clad hootchies, shakin' their asses in your face.....you've been very well trained.....it's an interesting choice on Chan's part to feature ordinary-looking women, and it's truly hilarious that you would react as such......

[LucidDream]

@spekinewicz I have to agree to some extent, but I tried to refrain from being too critical about it...because it's just such a great song and I love Chan a lot.

[ralucagymnast]

What an amazing, ethereal, unique sounding song; hypnotic and seductive. She's really beautiful too.

[smbrox]

is she making fun of Chinese people at 1:05...

[Trademarc1977]

@smbrox You mean "asian people" you racist! :P

[smbrox]

@Trademarc1977 easy kiddo, was just a joke

[Trademarc1977]

@smbrox Seems like you missed the colon and capital P-combo, universally accepted as the internet sign for "I am kidding too," at the end of my sentence.

[smbrox]

@Trademarc1977 i guess i did...now i see

[MichaelOhara]

:]:]

[PenisPeter88]

very nice tune

[jazze2778]

I was eighteen when I first heard this and it sent shivers down my spine and it still does. Her voice is amazing, love you cat power!!!!

[pasquinirah27]

If I were a man and if I've known Chan, I'd like to marry her as everybody here, I guess.  She dancing is the cutest thing ever hahahaha

[sargentD808]

she likes it " cross boner style"

[505479849]

magic voice, absolutely.

[ImaginePark]

That's some killer hair. I love her look.

[loadminik]

that was great!

[JackOffVille]

I just realize how bad, sad and poor this video is.

She is dressed like a hipster looking manager of a Gap.

I dig the yellow nail polish though...

[ihavemonkeysinmybutt]

@JackOffVille i couldn't agree with you more except this video was supposed to be a parody of some videos in the 90's so that's what she was aiming to do - so she did her job. it is good song though.

[jovanna242]

I saw cat power in '98 here in houston and I met and talked with her (Chan) like an hour after the show...she was an awesome lady and we hugged afterwards..

i'll never forget

[christlicker]

@jovanna242 I nailed her right after you hugged her. Thanks for warming her up!

[DavidChavezOrtiz]

@jovanna242 I hate you :p

[JohnnyTie]

Power fist!

[JohnnyTie]

Wow, she's beautiful.... O_O

[Ffoeg82]

Saw her last night at the 5th Ave Theater in Seattle...what a presence.

[desaderridian]

It's, if it is indeed a parody, of Mary Timony's video, "Dr. Cat," which in itself is fun and pretty cool.

[srichard66]

it looks like its taken from tori amos' video crucify.

[antneon]

This is her copying the video for Madanna's "Lucky Star" video. I remember reading an interview with her about 10 years ago where she talks about it. Yes, I'm old.

[6207865]

Whoah. Chan Marshall has had a rough life, brah!

I don't know exactly what her songs are about, but I kind of get the feeling that Chan Marshall should probably write less songs, and spend more time in therapy.....

[sucktastic]

@6207865

That's why God created Miley Cyrus - so fucksticks like you who have no musical taste have something to listen to. Have a nice day, cupcake.

[vicprobey]

She has a beautiful face..too bad her body doesn't match

[Jesustittiefucking]

@vicprobey And how would you know that, by watching this video? The clothes she's wearing isn't exactly showing off anything. If you simply google her name, you'll find lots of pictures where her body looks amazing!

[AdeleJacotey]

Sometimes she looks just like Ellen Page. :)

Simply adorable and wonderful.

[hanselkksc]

This is exactly the shit Yanks love. Lame music, lame musicians. L-A-M-E.

[hazardgirl71]

I think i'm in love.... wow

[hazardgirl71]

I think i'm in love.... wow

[clutchcrippler]

omg.... she is painfully hot... I need her. 

[theclockworkgnome]

why was I 10 when this came out, instead of marrying Chan Marshall!!!???

[femalerobotchicken]

@theclockworkgnome *reads comment* me: why was i 1 when this came out instead of being Chan Marshall!!!??? 0.o lol

[duckboy6989]

I love how 90's this clip is

[Beagslie76]

Thank you Addy & Gabe for introducing me to this wonderful music

[8BlueSkies]

love the harmony in this :)

[sternumagnum]

They were making nickdrakes only in male size I thought...

[PAULFC93]

I know i commented 2 days ago.....but Chan Marshall is the most beautiful woman i have ever seen.....maybe because she's so amazingly talented i'm a rather biased towards her.......i know this video is 1998.....but she still is amazingly stunning at 37......ok.....i've got that out of my system.

[vanleeuwenhoek]

@PAULFC93 being 37 shouldn't make you any less stunning.

[Marilyn1122]

@PAULFC93 I agree- she's beautiful.  Her look has depth - it's genuine and approachable. A sharp contrast from other artists who are all illusion.

[zacch1]

@Marilyn1122 well said

[gavgams]

@PAULFC93 , Have you seen Belinda Butcher, My Bloody Valentine. Check out To Here Knows When

[savanahjuliakite]

duh the macarana!!

[hugs4thugs]

i love this song but the video reminds me of that dove ad campaign

[PAULFC93]

She is just Amazing!!

[saborranchero]

She has beautiful hands

[NarisTorquere]

cross bones is the black flag of the pirate ship. symbolizes a lawless and single minded approach towards love; passion before patience, a cry for help. This song came to her as she slept in a haunted house which gave her a nightmare.

[Clementine648]

I bought Yellow Nail Polish after I watched this video!!

8)

[grilethredc]

@Clementine648 so did I

[Clementine648]

@grilethredc I'm wearing mine now! ;{P

[ElimRem]

i wish i had a girl like chan, but less damaged.

[csarito]

@ElimRem yeah.. she's pretty damaged isn't she?

[ElizaDay66]

@csarito ever notice the more damaged people are, the better their music is? She's brilliant.

[csarito]

@ElizaDay66 haha yeah, you may be right, and she IS brilliant, no doubt about that

[LucidDream]

@ElimRem What's wrong with her being damaged. I think that whatever she has been through in her life, or observed, has strongly affected her character and who she is today. It's part of what makes her such a beautiful woman.

[kennykiller911]

this was the lamest shit....

[alvincent23]

That black outfit with that hair and dancing = sexiest musician

[vingadores157]

she is wonderfull.

[MayelleMars]

--'

[Fraeg]

gogogo Vapmeister

[dank2791]

I juast wanna love ya chan come home to ur pappy

[KoimaLechoN]

ohh come child in the cross bone style

[MissDieRomantic05]

one of my favorites of her songs. I love her! shes so hott!!! I wish I did know the meaning of this song...

[rob5000x1]

this reminds me of the black and white video lmao

[elrusodefloresta]

Someone coul tell me what does cross bones style mean?

[starbellygrrl]

@elrusodefloresta i think she means maybe in like a "deadly way" to come and rescue her....like in a take no prisoners kind of way.....thats the way i think of it.. cause cross bones is a graveyard. or like a skull and crossbones which represents poison....or maybe shes just reffurin to the comic book villian who killed Captain america.....who know with chan...her earlier work was a lot more poetic lyrically...inmy opinion.

[polkaloseur]

so 90's

[timleery]

@polkaloseur whatever that means, you mean the last decade good music came out?

[avalanchelily]

I miss this Chan.

[2nickle]

she's hot

[andrelaura]

these songs I love so much

[bigcyhutch]

her best song by far

[sjallard]

masterpieces sometime just leave you speechless. just listen and look, and then you know. wow.

[tkpadilla]

I like to dance to this song... makes me bounce up and down and talk to the tv.

[starbellygrrl]

chan said she wanted a video with people dancing...a dance that everyone could do..like, depeche mode and personal jesus...cute....and i believe the lyrics are come child, not come chat....

[g33kthegirl]

Great song. HORRIBLE video.

[xmisogyny]

this is actually pretty tranquil. i like it.

[peterchoyce]

Here Mikhael that U HAVE SEEN SOME UNBELIEVABLE things song u like. It's the KATPOWERZ. She has another real HOT number- Friends- what is that one where she sings JACKSON, JESSE- I GOT THE SON IN ME??? AND something about the CUBANS? Don't see it here... gulp.

[starbellygrrl]

@peterchoyce its called Nuce as the news....hes related to you, he is dyin to meet ya

[failbait]

Oh come, and chat. Come, rescue me.

[maylizful]

i love her i loveeeeeeeeeee heeeeeeeeeer! she is .... gorgeous! amazing! i love heeeeeeeeeer!

[iwantbreadandhoney]

I know why and I'm not telling.

[bille77]

awesome vid but.... why?

[ghaand1994]

She is DAMN sexy.

[monsoonboy47]

1:05 - she looks exactly like that guy next to myley cyrus

[monsoonboy47]

ooohh, she looks good here. Living in bars can be rough.

[ImmortalYawn]

Seen her many times ..as Cat Power alone/with other players its awesome...lately...with her blues explosion whatever "thing"..not so much...

[ImmortalYawn]

Madonna's Lucky Star as an influence on the video, both for its white room and for its dancing.

[nickjoycurtis]

she'll perform at my place ...cant believe!!

[pollydistilla]

Well... I remember some videos like that:

Connection - Elastica

Babies - Pulp

even macarena for that strange dance jajaja

White background rules!

Chan is awesome!

[D4zza]

This video is an obvious parody of the gap ads in the 90's? I'm sure there is other influences in there too though.

[thpowercosmic]

@D4zza

yeah that was my first reaction - GAP commercial

[KoimaLechoN]

thats 1 sexi dike