Re: Ani DiFranco (revisited) and Holden Caulfield and numerous
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:54:20 -0500
> First of all, Ani did not, 'sell out'. The woman never signed with a big
> corporate FAKE / PHONY / WATTERED DOWN 'poppish' / let the corporate big
> wigs take out ALL the musical integrity out of the artist LABEL. She's
> INDIE!
And her new album is excellent; one of her songs says:
people talk
about my image
like I come in two dimensions
like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind
like what I happen to be wearing
the day that someone takes my picture
is my new statement for all of womankind
Sort of like one of the between-song bits on "Living in Clip," where she
says people ask why she's writing "about loooooove and all that shit, and I
tell them I just ... got ... disTRACted."
When I bought a copy of the new one (Little Plastic Castle), the guy at the
cash register was keeping a tally of how many he sold; he was in a
competition, he said, with a friend of his over how sales would go; he said
they had about a million calls on Monday, asking about whether the album
was available yet. She was even in the NY Times two days in a row. Go
figure!
--tim