“Honestly, I couldn’t dream up a better fit for this song which explores the many facets of desire.” “Betty Boop is flirting with the devil’s fire throughout the video which, to me, is both the devil in front of her and a symbol for the devil within her,” she offers. In the 21st century, though, Ziman finds it perfectly illustrates “thirsty”. Two months after its February 1934 release in the U.S., a two-paragraph brief on page 13 of Variety headlined “Boop Pic Nix in Eng.” stated “Red Hot Mamma” was rejected “100%” because “a film depicting the comic treatment of hell is unsuitable for public exhibition in this country.” The animated short got banned in the 1930s by the British Board of Film Censors. “The cartoon was already a great fit, conceptually, even before he touched it, but his tweaks helped the animation meld with the song.” “Well, he’s not giving himself enough credit when he says it was a ‘beautiful accident’ because his keen eye and sensitive ear made speed changes, along with image and lyric pairings, feel like magic,” Ziman points out. Viewers will discover that the rhythms of the video seem incredibly in step with Ziman’s peppy song, an amalgamation that Dean calls “the most beautiful accident.”
“There’s something fierce but vulnerable about her that feels just like the narrator of the song.” Turning up the heat on a cold winter night, Betty sings and dances throughout a dream sequence before being confronted by Satan and other demons in the fiery depths of hell until she finds a way to freeze out the little devils.Ĭheck out the combined talents of the two cool, captivating women on “thirsty” now, then read on to learn more about the song, the video and how Ziman overcame a writer’s worst nightmare during the global pandemic to complete another emotionally charged work of fine art. “Lucky for me, I’ve always been a fan of the great Ms. “When he was listening to ‘thirsty’, he started to browse vintage animated films with sexual innuendo, and when he landed on ‘Red Hot Mamma’, he knew it was the one,” Ziman says of Dean, a Looney Tunes fan who has released two comedy albums, was featured on AXS TV’s Gotham Comedy Live and appeared in all six episodes of the 2018 Amazon Prime docu-series Inside Jokes. He worked off a recently restored version of 1934’s “Red Hot Mamma”, the Fleischer Studios production that was directed by Dave Fleischer, Max’s younger brother.
Her sing-along send-off and sprite, jazz-inflected vocals on “thirsty” are the driving forces for babelicious Betty, the wide-eyed, effervescent glamour gal who’s resurrected again by Dean. After collaborating with comedian Robert Dean on the music video for “together, alone”, the second single from the album, Ziman was caught by surprise by the classic cartoon connoisseur’s latest project, she reveals in an email interview for this article, saying, “I had no idea he was making another video.” It’s one of 12 Ziman-penned selections - and the third release - from sincerely, e (Compass Records), the artist’s fifth studio album that drops on Friday. The presentation of the lively number delivered by this “Original Sass Symbol” from our nostalgic past also serves as a first listen to the song that is officially released today. Max Fleischer’s animation creation appears as the retro-fit star, along with Ziman’s voice, words, and music, in the black-and-white lyric video for “thirsty”, which the expressive indie-pop act known as Elizabeth and the Catapult premieres exclusively today at PopMatters. Then classic character and life-is-but-a-dream girl Betty Boop suddenly appeared. After getting “lost in the depths of fantasy,” Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Elizabeth Ziman never expected to toon in for help with promoting her brand new tune.
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