Magnetic Miss Perry

Mr. Merritt is a sucker for pretty pop songs and deadpan humor. Claudia Gonson, also of The Magnetic Fields, teases out a pretty rendition of Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas," a thoroughly unremarkable piece of songwriting, while Merritt casts off his lines like someone who really is waking up from a rough night in Vegas, crank and not in the mood for this song.