| Nude as the News | |
| Cover: | CP-Nude as the News.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Cat Power |
| Album: | What Would the Community Think |
| B-Side: | Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down |
| Released: | December 12, 1996 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, punk blues, southern gothic |
| Label: | Matador Records |
| Prev Title: | Headlights |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | He War |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
"Nude as the News" is a song by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power (a.k.a. Chan Marshall). It is the fourth song on her 1996 album, What Would the Community Think. It was released as a single, and a music video shot entirely in black and white and directed by Brett Vapnek.
A review in Vulture called the song both eerie and propulsive, saying that "it rolls like a long snarl."[1] The song is autobiographical, telling the story of an abortion that Marshall had when she was twenty. The chorus lyric, "Jackson, Jesse, I've got a son in me", does not refer to the Reverend Jesse Jackson but rather the first names of the children of Patti Smith, one of Marshall's heroes.[2]
The B-side "Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down" is a composite of the two songs "Schizophrenia" by Sonic Youth and "Weighted Down (The Prison Song)" by Skip Spence.