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Here is something cheerful

  • April 17, 2007
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How do you hide the fact that you are essen­tially a folk singer who stands little chance of success in the pop charts due to the fact that your album is full of banjos, pianos and other not-very-modern instru­ments?

If your name is Feist* then you make a video like this:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PsWTxvOArs

We think you will agree that it is mod­er­ately amazing.

This one is good too. She is going on her holidays by the looks of it but she'll miss her flight if she insists on dicking around on the escal­at­ors all day…

*Her real name is Leslie.

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