Video Of The Week: Amanda Palmer

I kept seeing ads for this on Facebook over the weekend, and I guess it's lived up to the hype. By week's end, it will have inevitably become viral, because that's how shit works now: create hype via Facebook, have a controversial subject (in this case, pro-body hair activist and singer of the Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer makes a video promoting bush ''down there'') and an ounce of already-recognized talent and you're good to go.

And Lord knows Amanda Palmer has talent to spare.

So here she is exploring a new style for her, dub, singing in an accent close to patois (Jamaican creole), talking about how this song, Map Of Tasmania, will not get airplay. Which it will. Because it says it won't. So it'll get a million YouTube hits, and radio won't have a choice.

It's just too bad she'll become a household name from decent material instead of from her better stuff. You don't see Trent Reznor wearing Marilyn Manson make-up to sell more records. Just sayin'.