i got this in an e-mail from lemon red:

"re: CocoRosie - On their first album, they indiscriminately use the N word, and still got a record released on a major indie label. They're also basically two rich white dilettantes who pretend to be French and make faux-folk songs, covering plantation-type songs in the style of Ella Fitzgerald. The whole thing is kinda gross. But I digress."

i really need one of my blogging friends to confirm this. because if it is indeed true, there's about to be a personal boycott of cocorosie. it's one thing to say the n-word, which is intolerable enough. it's a completely worse offense when you do that AND appropriate the style of a great black artist. it's just like the cover of "straight outta compton" that some cute singer/songwriter chick recorded. she said the n-word, and i clicked the "close" button. i don't even remember her name.

The song is "Jesus Loves Me" -- and it's satire.

Lyrics:

Jesus loves me, but not my wife
Not my n-- friends or their n-- lives
Jesus loves me, dat for sure
'Cause the Bible tells me so.

So make of that what you think. I hear it as pure satire, showing just how ridiculous the views of the Religious Right can be, etc.

As for the Ella comparison, I just don't really get it.

yeah thats pretty much satire dont have a cow