{"id":8873,"date":"2012-01-06T00:05:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T08:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8873"},"modified":"2012-01-06T06:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T14:40:23","slug":"meshell-ndegelocello-on-kcrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-01\/meshell-ndegelocello-on-kcrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Meshell Ndegelocello on KCRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The talented <strong>Meshell Ndegelocello<\/strong> showed up on <strong>KCRW<\/strong> and sang two songs off of her great recent album, <strong>Weather<\/strong> (her 9th studio album).\u00a0 First up is her performance of the wise and poignant <em><strong>Oysters<\/strong><\/em> (lyrically reminding of Feist&#8217;s great <em><strong>Get It Wrong Get It Right<\/strong><\/em>).\u00a0 Check it out below, with the lyrics following.\u00a0 And then after, check out her take on the comparatively up-tempo <em><strong>Dead End<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meshell Ndegeocello performing &quot;Oysters&quot; on KCRW\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vetqQIb8Ds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oysters<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody wishing on a shooting star<br \/>\nShooting star streaming across the sky<br \/>\nYou know it&#8217;s just a meteorite<br \/>\nPeople throwing pennies in a wishing well<br \/>\nWishing well&#8217;s gonna run dry<br \/>\nBut I ain&#8217;t gonna leave you tonight<br \/>\nEverybody talking about changing the world<br \/>\nWorld ain&#8217;t ever gonna change<br \/>\nBut you can always change it for me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll shuck all the oysters and you can keep the pearls<br \/>\nI do my shucking and my jiving for free<br \/>\nfree<br \/>\nLike walking down the beach at night<br \/>\nThrow a bunch of lines out to the one you want<br \/>\nUntil you get it right<br \/>\nSometimes you don&#8217;t&#8230;get it right<br \/>\nSometimes you won&#8217;t&#8230;get it right<br \/>\nBut when you do&#8230;it&#8217;s outta sight<br \/>\nSometimes you do&#8230;get it right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meshell Ndegeocello performing &quot;Dead End&quot; on KCRW\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUYWLS7Dl3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talented Meshell Ndegelocello showed up on KCRW and sang two songs off of her great recent album, Weather (her 9th studio album).\u00a0 First up is her performance of the wise and poignant Oysters (lyrically reminding of Feist&#8217;s great Get It Wrong Get It Right).\u00a0 Check it out below, with the lyrics following.\u00a0 And then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}