>> she certainly doesn't pander >> to the radio formula and never has.
> This is false. She admits that she wrote "You Turn > Me On I'm A Radio" specifically to get airplay, > even filling the song with catch phrases to get DJ's > to use them on air. At David Geffen's serious urging. She did it sort of grudgingly, I think. Even this attempt was almost tongue-in-cheek: radio towers, transiters, Breafast Barney, sign-off prayer. It's so over the top "radio" that it's like, "Okay - you want a radio hit? Here!" And the DJs just don't get it. They play it because even in its irony it fits the radio format. > Further to that, in her early days she was proud of > the fact that her songs were getting airplay (by way > of George Hamilton IV, Tom Rush, Ian & Sylvia), so > her desire to be commercial has never been > well-masked. Which is why she started whining when her air play suddenly stopped. She certainly has never stopped writing the way she wants to write simply to get air play. That's what I was getting at. > There are lots of people who would love to have had > a career in the arts as she has had. Lots. Her > talent and accomplishments have been recognized as > much as, if not more than, her peers. Oh, she knows that: "As a standard-setter in my art, I'm not uncomfortable with that." She's played with some of the best in the business and she acknowledges that but, as she says, where art meets commerce it's always tricky. I'm just trying to play Joni's spokesperson here, trying to defend her a bit. I'll be shutting up now. -Andrew Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://platinum.yahoo.com
