I confess I didn’t know anything about Scout Niblett until Buzzfeed featured the British singer-songwriter’s cover of TLC’s “No Scrubs” last week.

Niblett’s aching, slowed-down take on the R&B trio’s 1999 #1 smash certainly deserves a spin, but I was more intrigued to subsequently discover that she’d paired her cover with a another, Janet Jackson’s “Nasty,” releasing them together as “No More Nasty Scrubs” last November.

While “No Scrubs” made the cut of Niblett’s new album, It’s Up To Emma, her slightly scuzzy, mildly foreboding interpretation of Janet’s 1986 #3 hit really should have. The cheerleader-like chant that comes near the end (“Gimme an ‘N'”) is an inspired addition.

To create the music video to accompany her “Nasty” cover, Niblett sought out submissions from her Facebook fans, requesting clips of people dancing.

Purchase Scout Niblett – “Nasty” (Janet Jackson cover) via iTunes, Amazon MP3.