She'd be even hotter if she didn't sell herself for Louis Vuitton and Chanel and shit.

Is there any way some deity can keep her from doing that Tom Waits cover album? I don't care if the Flying Spaghetti Monster has to descend on a cloud and swallow the recording studio, something must be done to prevent this upcoming tragedy.

There's virutally no chance I will find Scarlett's music listenable. But I like her very much as an actress, so I will turn a deaf ear and let it slide...

Are his video's ever good?

She has an amazing voice, and usually, when you ask an artists/producer what their music sounds like, they struggle to come up with something appropriate. Rareley do things sound like they are touted beforehand. I will definitely give it a shot. I have not heard her sing, but she has a haunting voice and can probably do some amazing things with it. I trust that working with TVOTR, it wont suck.

Creativity is creativity. If she's at a point where she can do anything she wants creatively speaking, then who should try and cast a shadow on it?* I'm guilty of it at times as well, hell I wish Yellowcard never happened, but people like them (do they?**). Scarlett Johansson likes indie music, theaters, and Marilyn Monroe and she got the spark to put it all together. Good for her. And she's pretty. Good for us. Everyone should be happy that her outlet is music and movies and not doing nipple slips and endangering infants, as creative as that is (Britney Bash!).


*I am aware that the internet was in fact created for whining about things just like this, but I can't get behind it. But it's cool if you want to...because that was kind of the point I was trying to make...forget it.
**They don't.
***There is no third citation (are these called citations?) but I never want to think of pickle shakes ever again. Ralf.

Who is a good actress then? I think you have a case of the "I dont like anything that even resembles mainstream." Scarlett is a fantastic actress. If you need proof watch Match Point.

eeee. I'm kinda imagining the Tracy Lords album.

Yep... I'm a huuuge Scarlett aficionado and I thought she kinda blew in Match Point, too (though that didn't prevent me from enjoying the fuck out of that movie).

I hope that Scarlett's foray into music will mimic Charlotte Gainsbourg's. When you think about it, the two are kinda like the french fries = frites version of one another%u2013 well respected, sultry, barely (yet hauntingly) in the mainstream as actresses. Charlotte's last album is not what I would call groundbreaking and timeless, but because I like her for all the same reasons I like Scarlett as an actress, I musically judged it on a different (not lesser or greater) scale. In other words, my appreciation of Charlotte's music is, in many ways, a reflection of my relative appreciation of her other endeavors.

In general, boxing-in our favorite artists can only result in their eventual stagnation.

Also...

Regardless of how bad the music is, there will be videos. I can't see a downside...



but hopefully we'll all see some backside. [ wacka, wacka, wacka! ]

I'm tempted to say Scarlett Johansson can't act, but I've never seen her try. She never seems to have bothered to develop a detailed idea of the character she's playing; she always looks fairly vacant, bored and humourless on screen, and whenever she needs to show anger or passion, she just reuses the same trite techniques of scowling and yelling. I think part of being a good actor is realising that real people portray these emotions in so many different, subtle and nuanced ways and conveying that to the audience with understated and powerful mannerisms; something she never manages to do.

Go watch the different ways Cillian Murphy portrays his characters in The Wind That Shakes The Barley and then in Breakfast On Pluto; that is truly brilliant acting. In comparison, SJ is so painfully average that all this fuss made over her is just disappointing and a disservice to people that actually put the effort into their roles.

I had an avacado shake once, and truth be told i kinda liked it, pickles however... well that just seems way to out there for me...

Who would make such a thing?

(...although I did have basil ice cream once, t'was surprisingly nice.)