Feist enlists puppetry troupe for next music video :: Music News :: Articles

What do you do after your last video becomes a ubiquitous hit following its inclusion in a certain MP3 player's television ads? Let puppets do your work for you, of course. According to several reports, Canadian songstress Feist has enlisted the help of the Calgary-based The Old Trout Puppet Workshop for the video of her latest single, "Honey, Honey," off the Grammy-nominated album The Reminder.

The Old Trout Puppet Workshop produced puppetry for the early 1990s blockbuster Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. (What? No Rick Moranis this time around?) Their work has also been featured on stage, in productions of Ronald Dahl's Little Red Riding Hood and Jack And The Beanstalk. This is the first Feist video in which the singer-songwriter does not perform.

"I am a mere spectator. I love this! I'm not even in it, I just get to hang out!", Feist told CityTv.com. Perhaps if we're lucky, and Feist really gets behind this do-nothing work ethic, we'll see the animatronic characters from Disney World's Hall of Presidents starring in the next Feist joint.

In related news, this isn't the first time Feist has worked with puppets. The Grammy-nominated artist once toured with Peaches as "Bitch Lap Lap," a leotard-wearing rapper with a sock puppet.

Puppets = Feist fetish.

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