The song Bob Murphy was describing was a DeFranco song that I singled
out in my glowing review of her appearance here in America's heartland.
She mentions "loop-de-loop streets" and "a Berlin Wall running down Main
Street, separating East from West". The song has smart-alec humor that
a Letterman audience would understand. I said then that the song
contains a keenly-observed and skillfully-written lyric..... And we all
know how terribly difficult it is to impress a Joni fan with a lyric!
Go Ani!
Lama
ps- Isn't it really, really wierd that people get criticised and excised
for the _very_ things I value in an artist???? Like people are just
dying for another interview with Vince McMahon, or more
watermelon-smashing by Gallagher??? We JMDLers are pretty far out of
the mainstream, I guess. Hey, can we paint a smile on the Mona Lisa so
Letterman fans will "enjoy" her more?
on 7/19/01 9:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ani DiFranco was scheduled to appear on "Late Night with David
Letterman"
> tonight. She had planned to perform "Subdivision," a song about
rascism that
> begins, "White people are so scared of black people, they bulldoze out
to the
> country." Producers at "Late Night" tried to convince her to sing a
more
> "up-beat" song. When she refused, her segment was cancelled.
