in the middle of final cramming bs but took time out to read a listserv post inviting me to a show where the talents of said subject would be employed - how's that for holiday cheer? i love people's weird attempts to be non-traditional while still embracing the tiny baby jesus - really! i'm the most pro-tradition atheist you might meet, which is why i think i study ethnomusicology - i simply must steal all the world's traditions, sift thru them, and make my own hybrid faux religion no unlike that of genesis p. and create a cult who will take part in my ceremonies. what should be first?
oh man, i've been studying too long.
i have nothing else to report except oscar wilde's genius and that you should click thru to my voice piece. i'm excited abt it even tho those chix are putting out a new old record immediately following this one. argh blargh. also, i know it's not on me, but isn't that the worst press photo one would ever hope to shoot? this is why SOMEBODY should have let ME write about Gwen Stefani. Why do I always end up writing about all the weird art school chix? I have several hunches. Anyway, I usually sorta agree w. Mr. Harris, but I have to beg that he probably did NOT have the same experience w/ Lady Gwen as the whole grown-up-in-the-90s set, girls esp., and is doing the whole 'she's not madonna so it's not real subversion' thing, which is a big fat so what. I mean, there's something really WEIRD abt Gwen, her progression, her voice, her background (ska pop princess turned 'dance music' x-over model???) that begs a deeper set of thoughts...by me...someone...anyone???
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Daph, loved your COS speed. Just got around to it.
Gwen was problematic for me when I was Uber Indie Rock Grrrl in 1995 but in 1998 I accepted her as my Cyndi Lauper. That had something to do with going to a No Doubt show around that time and having the crowd remind me of 14-year-old me.
Of course, what I'm saying is pretty lightweight here, but I agree that her voice is unique and for some reason, I'd take her over Alanis or Avril any day.
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