Me? Like Ani DiFranco?

Oct 15, 2008 14:10

Pandora has a way of making you listen to things you would rather not, and last night was no exception ( Read more... )

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mmymoon October 15 2008, 18:47:02 UTC
Yay, I love Dar!

Hah, I've always been torn on Ani Difranco... there are some songs I really do love (Imperfectly!), but there are a lot that completely miss the mark with me. I have a good family life, and, quite honestly, I've never really had any issue/angst with dating the people I date. :P And her fanbase was so... very... passionately teenaged. Cough.

Plus, her newer jazz-influenced stuff I just really dislike musically; I'm a folk girl all the way.

But I still like a lot of her early work... and Natalie Imbruglia, Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, Jewel; I am a TOTAL nineties-folk-girl-Lilith-Fair-stuff girl, it's true. XD

(Jewel was actually one I came around on; I HATED "You Were Meant for Me" when it got radio play, but a friend forced me to sit down and listen and realize most of her songs are about social issues and not unrequited luuuuuuuuv.)

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mmymoon October 15 2008, 18:48:12 UTC
I've been thinking about the Ani-fan-mindset lately... am I old and lame if I decide I'd rather have curly brown tresses than a pink mohawk?

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missmeganmaude October 15 2008, 20:11:17 UTC
No! Of course not! There's nothing wrong with wanting to be stunning in a beautiful way rather than a shocking way! Or... I'm going to keep telling myself that. Do like I'm going to do and get a tattoo, and then maybe you'll feel better about the whole thing! ^__^

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mmymoon October 15 2008, 21:10:13 UTC
Yes... like I said about the signature looks, it's kind of weird; I find myself rebelling against the very idea that I'm expected to look any certain way, even pink. Alternative societal expectations are still societal expectations. (I think I will probably do pink tips, though; I think I'm happy with mostly brown, but with a little bit of pink. XD)

Oh, actually, that's on my list! I've never liked (for me) the idea of getting a tattoo just to have one... but I want to get little pink stars over my bloodwork and surgery scars: turn something negative into something positive and all that.

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blasphemina October 15 2008, 20:48:28 UTC
Did you leave a book at my house? I have a book and it doesn't belong to anyone here :/

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missmeganmaude October 15 2008, 20:56:05 UTC
I don't *believe* so. I thought I only brought my Kindle, and then I bought that one book at the store. I got home with both though... what book is it?

Along the same lines though... did you find an off-white bra that doesn't seem to belong to anyone else? ^^;

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blasphemina October 16 2008, 02:23:27 UTC
Hmmm...no but then again I haven't cleaned. The book is called Escape and it's about mormons, I think. I mean, my roommate used to be mormon, but he doesn't read. He just smokes weed and wear brand.

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missmeganmaude October 16 2008, 02:27:15 UTC
Yeah, that's definitely not my book. Hopefully it's rightful owner will appear to you and give it love.

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skwerlie October 16 2008, 01:56:30 UTC
I like Dar Williams but never really got into Ani either. And I'm so-so on Tori Amos... almost all of my friends were passionate Tori and Ani fans so I kind of felt bad for not really liking either of them... ^^;;

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missmeganmaude October 16 2008, 02:26:23 UTC
I really despise Tori Amos... I didn't want to say so in my post lest I get attacked by her fans. I can respect that other people like her, but she really just doesn't resonate with me.

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skwerlie October 16 2008, 02:46:16 UTC
Tori Amos is just.... Idunno, sometimes TOO much for me, though I do like some of her songs. Reminds me of how I didn't like Regina Spektor until her most recent album... which a lot of her fans think of as a poppy sellout album. But I like it better. : P

Btw if you like Dar Williams, have you heard of Missy Higgins? You might enjoy some of her stuff, it reminds me a bit of some of Dar's... but I don't know if she's popular in the US at all (she's Australian). I really liked Missy Higgins until I got a bit overloaded on her songs because it was the only decent CD at the shop I used to work at so I'd play it like... all day long. : P

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