D&D, huh?

I don't understand the outright hatred generated. What's she done to you specifically?

Don't you know by now that "Rock/Pop" in Obnerland actually means Hyperbole?

Know nothing about her personally.... just sometimes music has hard edges, quirks, pretenses, overreaches, which intensely annoy. Anthony (of Anthony and the Johnstons) is probably a fine fellow... but his voice was histrionic posturing that, to me, made him unlistenable.

I am sure the young woman in question is a person of depth, and artistic hunger.... but she bleats like Alfafa getting screwed. As somebody said last year in the "Obner Top Twenty"... not my cup of tea.

People think this of Dylan, but I think he's god if not Jahweh. It's all about taste.

Credit where credit is due. That was shiv, and although it was about an album I loved, that was freakin' hilarious.

i cannot believe this chick gets three pages of discussion.....

i would rather listen to this band any day -->

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another listen, same result. meh. good in parts, but boring overall.

the drummer sucks

This reminds me of the Beatles 1/10

It certainly says something for her music when people are so polarized on it. One could read deeply into it if they wanted to analyze the comments.

As with the Bjork comparison, I see it come across on a few levels.

1. The voice. Bjork has an amazing voice when she wants to belt out a song, but has the tendancy, especially on her past couple to enter into this warbling, I hate to use it because it sounds like I'm being lazy, Icelandic elf mode.

2. The tendancy to sing lyrically driven songs that go off on tangents that after a coupleof minutes do not necessarily show a conclusion. It sounds as though many of you hate Newsom's lyrical mumbo jumbo. I personally really like it. This in my mind binds the two.

3. Striking out in a musical direction of question. On Medulla, Bjork worked with voices only. Of all the Bjork albums this seemed to be the one that alienated the most people. The thing is, Bjork has always implemented elements not of the normal studio album in her songs. The harp, being Newsom's device has similarly been brought up by boarders as an element, moreover styling that they disliked.

4. The art factor. Both musicians are expanding in directions we seldom venture into.

Just my observations on the whole parallel between Bjork and JN.

I don't understand the people who vocate "she plays the harp :: she's pretentious", like she learned how to play the harp just so she'd have a shtick to sell her music.

It's not possible that it could be that she's played ever since she was little (fact) and that it just happens to be an instrument that she plays? She's even said in interviews that she currently does not intend to perform on anyone else's albums because she doesn't want the harp to become this kitschy thing for rock bands to suddenly throw into a song or two.

i myself am not stuck on whether or not harp is used. i'm just not that entertained by the songs.