Kate Nash's "Do Wah Doo"
Kate Nash returns this April with her new single entitled Do Wah Doo. While the title may become annoying after while, the song is just annoyingly-addictive. The sixties girl-group inspired ditty sees a slight musical change for Kate with bursts of brass and surfy guitar rather than simple piano melodies, but most of us will be pleased to see that her signature and somewhat predictable vocal style and lyrics have stayed the same and in true Nash style the song wraps up with the brutally honest statement: “I think she’s a bitch”. The song comes with a music video featuring Kate and her friends posing as all-singing, all-dancing flight attendants and passengers on a flight set sometime in the sixties. We see her as a lovestruck stewardess watching while her favourite steward is seduced by someone she calls a shady lady (I guess she’s the ‘bitch’ mentioned). Every time I listen to the track I feel myself loving the “ba bom ba bom ba” hook even more, if anything I wish it was longer than just over two and a half minutes!
Do Wah Doo is released 12th April and the 7″ comes with two exclusive tracks: Grrrilla Munch and R n B Side. The track is taken from the album My Best Friend Is You, due for release a week later on 19th April.
Update: The Do Wah Doo EP is out now on iTunes, and it comes with the best freaking remix I’ve ever heard! Nick Zinner’s Clock Tower Remix almost sounds like a retro live version of the song, it’s what remixes should be like!
