Nellie McKay Zombie on Halloween and a Parade

Nellie and Susan and Amber and Lady Rizo and X Calibur and Lu Lu Lucifer and Slappy Fish and Danimal performing Zombie on Halloween at the Brooklyn Lyceum. A parade follows. The night was a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood.
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[classicmelody]

This is probably not the best example of her singing. She's screwing around with a goofy song which is being performed in a different key than she usually performs it herself. I saw her perform a couple of months ago and she sang everything (including this song) perfectly in pitch.

[doomtints]

Untrue. Try to find some of her Threepenny Opera performances. She sings on key and very well.

[JoeCaffrey]

I am going to see her tonight!

[MartyInSLC]

Nellie is quite amazing. Singing " off key " is often just a matter of poor monitors, being unable to hear yourself against the music being performed... NO monitors here it would appear.. she's just having some fun with friends. I didn't know who this girl was when I stumbled on her at The Sundance Film Festival a couple of 2 or 3 years ago ( Thanks to ASACP music cafe! ) She just blew me away, her and a piano.... AMAZING.

[vanityfair713]

yeah!

[doomtints]

It's not true that she's not a great singer.

This particular video isn't a good example of how she sounds live. She's just yelling in this instance.

Usually she a surprisingly good singer. I'm often amazed by what comes out of her. Look around a bit and you'll find some better examples of her live singing voice.

[xxmrrickxx]

Its not a matter of being a critic or dishing out insults. To a trained ear, she really struggles to stay on key in falsetto. Although she is very CUTE and her songs are cleaver, she has a limited vocal range and her vocal immaturity is revealed when she strays too high or low. I assure you, if she was featured as a vocalist next to the technically sabby Coltrane, this would become obvious.

[larryreece]

Are you insane? Do you even know what you're talking about? Nellie Mckay can sit down with nothing but a Mic. and a piano and sound better than any artist recording today. Her voice is absolutely amazing.

You would probably say that John Coltrane was not a very good saxophonist.

[xxmrrickxx]

I don't get what the is about with her. She is not a very good singer! It takes several vocal track layers to make her voice resemble being on key. I think she is pretty much high school talent show material.