Blessings on the anonymous YouTube user who posted an amazing collection of videos starring one Sondra Prill from Tampa, Florida who apparently recorded cover tunes (badly) and did public-access videos for them (badly) in the early 1990s. Sondra's story was told on day #338 of the 365 Days Project, but thanks to recent innovations in Internet video we now get to see her in all her glory. The music blog Idolator, in the latest installment in their series of astounding public-access music videos, introduced me to her rather alarming cover of Janet Jackson's "Nasty" (YouTube video link), but once you hit her cover of "Pump Up The Jam" (another YouTube video link) you'll know that you're in the presence of something special: the Jan Terri of Tampa.
Hot dog, you beat me to posting about Miss Prill (though I actually have to give ups to frequent Blather Box poster Joe Nathan for turning me on to the video links).
I uploaded some video (Quicktime files to download and keep) and an mp3. Go ahead and add these to the post if you like, or leave them right here.
Nasty mp3
Nasty quicktime video (13mb)
Pump Up the Jam quicktime video (10mb)
That line in "Nasty" where she just screams, "No my first name ain't baby, it's ahhhhhhhhh!!! Nasty!", has to be one of my favorite things of recent memory.
Oh, and you have to watch the two part interview on YouTube - it's perhaps the most uncomfortable 15 minutes in cable access TV, mostly because of both Sandra and host Rory Penland's approximations of humor are awkward at best:
Part One
Part Two - features her sad proclamation that she is "MIA sex"
Man, I heart Miss Prill!
Posted by: ResidentClinton | October 30, 2006 at 11:14 PM
And hey, I was trying to clean up that mp3 a bit, to no avail, but I did accidentally make this
Robot Prill mp3
which I find oddly compelling. If someone had the talent to put beats behind this or something, it may rival Kraftwerk. Though with much more emotion, of course.
Posted by: Account Deleted | October 30, 2006 at 11:53 PM