Hi, Kakki. You wrote "I've admitted many times here that when DJRD first came out I thought it was some of the weirdest sh*t I'd ever heard! But I could not dismiss it and was compelled to play it over and over to try to "get it". Good for you - as I admitted, I tried, too but.... "I also didn't feel like "why isn't she writing stuff like Blue and FTR anymore?" I confess I felt the feeling, even though I checked myself whenever I started to think the thought. "It was very apparent that the former Joni "era" was long packed away at that point and one either needed to move along with her (as bumbling as that felt at the time) or to just stop at that point and never move past Court and Spark." And as I have confessed, I took the low road. But "never" is a big word, so now I am back. > There is a lot of pressure on a reviewer when, under time constraints, she has to produce a review of a work > by a person of far greater talent, based on insufficient time to absorb, feel > and analyze. Agreed. Guess I would have respected Maslin's opinion more if she had just admitted that it was odd and baffling and tried to muddle it out from there. Me, too. But that would have shown some humility, and humility does not sell. :-~ But I thought that you left out some of the more withering comments like: You caught me. Some of those Maslin comments are so off the mark, I dismissed them altogether the first time, and cannot even bear to copy them this time. OK, maybe it was a "bad" review after all - though for the sake of my "pride" I still prefer not to think of it as a "terrible" one, even though I think it missed the mark. Best regards, Bob S.
