She criticized "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe as "jejune, sentimental, and piffling". The book is a magnificent idea, ruined by jejune bombast. He has little poetical power, and his style is meagre and "jejune". Mendelssohn admired Liszt's virtuosity at the keyboard, he found his music jejune. The Early Modern English adjective "jejune" is derived from this word. On June 10, Bright Eyes released the music video for "Jejune Stars". On February 24, the band performed "Jejune Stars" on the Late Show with David Letterman.