"Nude as the News" is a song by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power (a.k.a.

It was released as a single, and a music video shot entirely in black and white and directed by Brett Vapnek.

A review in Vulture called the song both eerie and propulsive, saying that "it rolls like a long snarl.

"[1] The song is autobiographical, telling the story of an abortion that Marshall had when she was twenty.

The chorus lyric, "Jackson, Jesse, I've got a son in me", does not refer to the Reverend Jesse Jackson but rather the first names of the children of Patti Smith, one of Marshall's heroes.