> 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