Synopsis

Cake Like's "Lorraine's Car" combines deadpan performance footage with a deliberately odd comic setup. Kerri Kenney, Nina Hellman and Jody Seifert perform as the song's anxious, confrontational energy plays against scenes involving a young passenger, the intimidating Lorraine and a group of eccentric adults. The video mirrors the track's mixture of fear, admiration and resentment without attempting a conventional narrative. Its clipped editing, straight-faced acting and deliberately awkward humor give the promo the feel of an offbeat sketch as much as a rock video.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was made in 1997 to promote "Lorraine's Car," a track from Cake Like's second album, *Bruiser Queen*.

• The credited cast includes Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Larry Kenney, Tanner Kenney and Ashley Kenney, placing several performers from the band's comedy and family circles inside the video's strange miniature world.

• Kerri Kenney was already known through MTV's *The State* and *Viva Variety* when the video appeared. Her later work on *Reno 911!* made the clip an early document of her career as both a musician and comic performer.

• Cake Like formed in New York in 1993 when Kenney and Nina Hellman were students at New York University's Experimental Theater Wing. Neither initially knew how to play her instrument, an origin story that helped shape the band's unusual, deliberately unpolished sound.

• Experimental musician John Zorn released Cake Like's debut album, *Delicious*, on Avant. Neil Young later signed the band to his Vapor Records label, which issued *Bruiser Queen* and the group's final album, *Goodbye, So What*.

• The song was also performed by Cake Like on *Viva Variety* in 1997, helping connect the band with the television-comedy audience already familiar with Kenney and her collaborators.

• Cake Like ended after its 1999 album when Kenney relocated from New York to Los Angeles. The video has since remained a frequently rediscovered example of the overlap between the 1990s New York indie-rock and alternative-comedy scenes.