The Prettiots: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts

June 15, 2015 by BOB BOILEN The Prettiots songs are winsome and clever, but most of all they re honest and funny. Goodness knows pop music needs some clever fun. The three women in The Prettiots Kay Kasparhauser on ukulele and lead vocals, Rachel Trachtenburg from the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on drums, and bassist Lulu Prat share their love of everything from Law Order to oldschool girl groups like the ShangriLas. Their song Stabler, performed here, is based on Kasparhauser s infatuation with the Law Order character Elliot Stabler. Boys (I Dated In High School) is the Prettiots tune that first charmed me, thanks mainly to the perfect portrait its brainy rhymes paint: Martin, that was your name I met you on the 1 train You were super duper duper hot On the 1 train You said you were a painter Mostly you were a waiter A stoner and a skater So I had to say later, These are the boys that I dated in high school I thought they were so nice And I thought they were so cool