Musical fish or chicken?
That Adam Green is one shaggy dog. But his song currently circulating on MTV2 is so weird that he could be an actual dog and the video wouldn't be any weirder.
Jessica would be a great '60s ballad about a girl if the year wasn't 2003 and the girl wasn't Jessica Simpson. The love song seems to be loosely based on Mrs. Lachey's adventures in TV land, but its psychedelic directness leaves no room as to what Green's been watching: "Jessica Simpson / Where has your love gone / It's not in your music, no / You need a vacation / To wake up the cavemen / And take them to Mexico."
The song even has a string section. They show up in the video with Green and his band, all looking wake serious as Green slowly … crosses a stage … and plays ping-pong with a Jessica Simpson lookalike.
I don't much about him, except that at 22 he's been releasing albums for a while and can apparently find two minutes to drop in on pop culture. I like how the video's got me wondering right now, but I'm not sure how much it'll be on my mind tomorrow or the following days. How much thought can you give to someone who thinks so little herself?
