Ani DiFranco - Not a Pretty Girl
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Artist: Ani DiFrancoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-07-18
Music Label: Righteous Babe
Soundtracks:
- Worthy
- Tiptoe
- Cradle and All
- Shy
- Sorry I Am
- Light of Some Kind
- Not a Pretty Girl
- Million You Never Made
- Hour Follows Hour
- 32 Flavors
- Asking Too Much
- This Bouquet
- Crime for Crime
- Coming Up
- 32 Flavors [Live][*]
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Music Review: I give 'Not a Pretty Girl' 6 *s!!! I have almost all of her CDs, & this one is...
Rating: 5 Stars
I have been an Ani di Franco fan since I was 15-yrs-old, 11 yrs. ago. This is like her 6th or 7th CD I think, & it's one of her best. B/c she is on the verge of possibly becoming obsolete & not making it financially if she doesn't sell out. You can hear it in her songs, like, "The Million You Never Made". However, she stuck to her morals as a musician & held her ground. This CD marks her success finally. After she came out w/this CD she became much MUCH more well-known, & pretty much started 'making' it, in the business-sense of the word. It's a great CD,,,every single song is exquisite. Right after this, she came out with "Dilate" which is good, but this one is way more raw (like her 1st CDs-less produced by her), & the emotion is sooo powerful & outspoken against politics & social wrongdoings. Dilate is more into the wrongdoings of love unrequited, which is just as valid to an individual, however, I like this one more!!!:) She is one of my favorite idols b/c she is such a courageous individual who was & still is willing to risk not fitting in with society or any of its counterparts or institutions-a.k.a.:schools, the music industry, an average "job" for the rest of her life, etc. just wasn't enough to make Ani feel content or complete in any sense. Espec. since most of societies' systems upset Ani b/c they go against every moral standard that she holds for herself. So, she was a NYC server @ a diner, as well as a songwriter & a performer 4 her 2nd job (act.she'd prob.say that being a waitress came 2nd to being a songwriter/singer--& eventually solely a singer/songwriter/CEO/producer/anthropologist/etc). Talent scouts waited for her shows to end in order to try & convince Ani that she'd be better off selling her record label(Righteous Babe Records,Inc.) & sign on to a bigger production company for the simple fact that they promised to make her wealthy overnight. However, she'd have to sell her own company that she'd begun at just 18 yrs. old, and give up all the reasons that she'd started her own independent label to begin with. She was already ahead of the 'talent scouts' & 'music producers' trying to profit off of her magnificent gift to be able to passionately move her audience with her songs' lyrical content, which often carried controversial political & social undertones. There was something about her vigor, intellect, & positive spirit to make a universal change for the betterment of all humankind that people seemed to connect with through her songs immediately. Of course, Ani new that to keep her little company & her huge dreams in tact she'd have to follow a strategy she'd been using since the beginning, she'd have to start with herself & then with her local community. She shows this by using the "Think globally, act locally" mind-set. For instance, the way she launched her record label with just a few hundred dollars of loan money from friends that she'd met along the way as an aspiring & inspirational folk singer. She'd travel in her white bug from coffee shops to small venues all up & down the east coast, selling tapes out of her trunk, & most importantly getting her music heard & spread around the country. It is well-known that part of the way she became successful was by people (particularly college students)dubbing her music & giving it to their friends, so from word of mouth, the name Ani D. became synonymous with energetic, original, and hand-written lyrics that were always so full of Truth they'd shock & get the attention of anyone who gave her music a chance. Not to mention her finger-picking style on the guitar that has a quirky, upbeat thythym, & a completely unique style that was unheard of at the time that she came out with her debut album in 1990. She was/is a revolutionary, a diva, & a prodigy. She picks tunings out that even the most well-educated & experienced guitar song writers would not have any clue of how she came up with & chose the tunings that she did with her guitar. She turned down the offers to take the easy way out & sign on to a label that would "do" all of her music for her, she would never have been able to live up to her ideals, that one's experiences should be of their own creation & manifestations. Ani truly makes her beliefs & philosophies on life "self evident" in her tireless work over the past 2 decades.
Description of Not a Pretty Girl
Ani DiFranco's fondness for cheeky self-effacement marks her fourth album, Not a Pretty Girl. Having redefined our whole concept of cult following, the funky, punky singer/songwriter has parlayed her prowess for six-string blues guitar into an unique alternative acoustic sound. This album marks real growth for the musician. Songs like the title track or "Worthy" are more fully realized than many of her earlier pieces that lean toward artful scat or spare guitar and vocal arrangements. It also precedes DiFranco's more experimental work, a characteristic recurrent with increasing frequency on subsequent recordings. --Nick HeilGeneral CDs
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