Vanessa Carlton Enjoyed Running Over A Piano

andPOP.com caught up with Vanessa Carlton for a discussion on her third album ‘Heroes and Thieves’, which sees the singer songwriter depart from the image of her breakout debut ‘A Thousand Miles’ by crushing the infamous piano on wheels in the video for the disc’s lead single ‘Nolita Fairytale’. “I felt it was the perfect parlay into the new chapter, resurrecting the old image of the moving piano, which was lovely, but in order for me to move forward, I guess I had to run it over,” she laughed. “It was just really fun to hit a piano with a car.” Carlton calls ‘Heroes and Thieves’ “a musical story book. It’s really my first concept record.” Read more.