Video: Ida Maria: "Stella"
Norwegian singer Ida Maria has an abiding interest in the Big Guy Upstairs. She shouted him down on the rapturously frenetic "Oh My God", and now she's followed it up with "Stella", a surprisingly tender tale about god giving the entire world to "a forty-three-year-old hooker from downtown" in exchange for a night in her arms. The video, which features the exceptionally charismatic Ida Maria relegated to the supporting role of a waitress, is very, very literal.
[from the "Stella" single; out now on RCA]