{"id":794661,"date":"2019-04-09T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=820255"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:56:31","slug":"tierra-whack-slices-up-living-potatoes-in-whimsically-horrifying-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/tierra-whack-slices-up-living-potatoes-in-whimsically-horrifying-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tierra Whack Slices Up Living Potatoes in Whimsically Horrifying Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/tierra-whack-unemployed-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Philadelphia rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tierra-whack\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tierra-whack\" data-tag=\"tierra-whack\">Tierra Whack<\/a> first introduced us to her surrealist style and pocket-sized jams with last year\u2019s visual album, <em>Whack World<\/em>, consisting solely of minute-long songs and videos. This year, she\u2019s released a string of individual tracks, and her latest, \u201cUnemployed,\u201d comes with its own clip.<\/p>\n<p>At nearly three minutes long, \u201cUnemployed\u201d is a Russian novel compared to the <em>Whack World<\/em> songs, and the video takes the viewer on a truly mind-boggling, spud-filled journey with enough puppetry and body horror to make John Carpenter proud. Without giving too much away, the basic premise is that Tierra Whack is a chef chopping potatoes in a kitchen, and the potatoes are alive. That\u2019s it. And it only escalates from there. It\u2019s as whimsical as it is horrifying.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Whack\u2019s other latest singles here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CXdTShfFPYM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOnly Child,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9-8qrzg-vgQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCLONES,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s6Pm3kpJ4LE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGloria,\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wiRlfyk0nTM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWasteland.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tierra-whack-unemployed-video-potatoes-body-horror-820255\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia rapper Tierra Whack first introduced us to her surrealist style and pocket-sized jams with last year\u2019s visual album, Whack World, consisting solely of minute-long songs and videos. This year, she\u2019s released a string of individual tracks, and her latest, \u201cUnemployed,\u201d comes with its own clip. At nearly three minutes long, \u201cUnemployed\u201d is a Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 00:47:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}