Jessica McKenna
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Okay, I'm starting with, like, I think a hipster-ish choice is one way to say it, a deeper cut.
I'm going to go with Paula Pell in Girls 5 Eva.
I really loved Girls 5 Eva, great music, and Paula Pell absolutely holds it down, and she's up with, like, some real singers.
Right, like Renee Elise Goldsberry's in that.
Yeah, like, and you are... And Busy Phillips, also great in it, but I think Paula Pell is, like, the further away from expectation.
Funniest... One of the funniest writers on SNL of all time.
Like, brilliant comedian, but not expecting her to be able to sing.
And yes, they're mixed into a girl group sound, but I mean, I feel like she sells it.
And I feel like when you can pick her out, you can hear, like, yeah, there's a beautiful, warm tone to her voice.
Girls 5 Eva is in the Robert Carlock, Tina Fey DNA of 30 Rock and Great News and now the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, which I really also recommend.
And it's about a girl group that now they had like some hits, you know, 15 years ago and one of the members dies and they decide to get back together and now are like trying to navigate being like in their 40s.
And it's really funny and there's some great music in it.
There's a song about a New York lonely boy that I think about a lot where it's like a decision to have an only child and all these examples of how it's okay if you're in New York because there's tons of New York lonely boys, including John Slattery makes a cameo, I think with maybe his real son of like, I've raised a New York lonely boy.
So that's like one specific song.