well, I don't find Tori depressing.... Scarlet's Walk I think is a social
criticism but I think Tori says - this is how things are and if we think
about that we can work to change it. Sometimes I feel that Ani is so
in-your-face everything-sucks with nothing I find uplifting. I feel that she
just says - this is how things are and it sucks. Period. I just think she is
angrier than Tori maybe... I don't find your music depressing probably for
several reasons... I think your stuff has a positive thread in it - "I'm not
a hooker, I'm a healer" or "maybe someday you'll learn how to fall in love"
-- I think your music takes a bad situation but says, look there's still
something else than just this situation.... also, as you said, you are so
bright and upbeat at your shows that it gives the songs more of an upbeat
feel. Lately from Ani I've just felt negativity... in the Render dvd she gets
pissed at the fans for singing along to Dilate... Self-Evident - which is an
amazing piece of poetry, don't get me wrong - just makes me sad... she makes
some very good points in that song but to me it comes off as everything
sucks... there's not much in the way of look, this is how we make things
better as a people. A little about us getting out of the oil business and
going back to touring in train cars but not really much else...

One song that is recent Ani that I love is Grey from the Revelling/Reckoning
cds but it's so sad... it just sounds like she is thoroughly depressed
because her relationship got messy.... it makes me cry. Evolve to me seemed
like 10 more songs about her crappy relationship... I think it's a recent
trend in her music... even To The Teeth I didn't find depressing because I
think she still had a will to change things and say, look if we get rid of
the goddamn guns, this shit won't happen... I think her last couple cds have
just come off as defeatist... there's just something that's turning me off
about her lately.
:P
Lisa


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