Tierra Whack's wacky world

What do these things have in common: drowning in soup; a cotton-reel puppet; a duck with a hand coming out of its butt; Kermit the Frog?

If your answer was "absolutely nothing" you would have been right until a few days ago when Tierra Whack's eye-popping video for her new track Dora broke.

Directed by visual artist Alex Da Corte, the vid is a surreal journey through madcap imagery, all loosely relating to the educational programs shown on PBS.

“On May 1st 1969, Fred Rogers testified before the Senate Committee," Da Corte states, "in defence of federal funding for children’s Public Broadcasting. He said, “If we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable we will have done a great service for mental health.” In the same year, puppeteer Jim Henson and his muppets developed the children’s educational program Sesame Street.

“Fifty one years later, Tierra and myself still feel it is urgent to find a way to speak to our feelings through music and pictures. Thinking of the ways in which Aretha Franklin, Fred Rogers and Jim Henson navigated the world through good times and bad times with determined positivity was deeply inspiring to me during the making of this video. To make Tierra laugh was in some ways the best I could do on the hardest of days.”