pink nasty burns

pink nasty, or sara beck, the countryish indie pop singer/songwriter from austin, tx pictured here with the bonnie prince, is a rather funny woman. (with that moniker how could she not be?) most of her humor stems from gentle self-denigration - a tactic anyone's guess particularly admires for its general lack of self-seriousness - and good-natured mockery.

take, for example, her duet with will oldham "don't ever change" (which you can stream at her myspace), about a pair of lovers smartly sending up one another's flaws ("this feels like love, but on crack"), or her latest video, in which sara stations herself behind a kissing booth only to be spurned by, among others, a pair of gay convict escapees. see? comic goodness.

but here, covering the usher song "burn," sara resists the temptation for broad parody and instead fashions something both humorous, for its incongruity of singer & syntax, and, for playing straight the devolution of a relationship, oddly touching. have a listen:

pink nasty - burn

you can buy pink nasty's newest album mold the gold from her website. or find some more tracks on hype machine.