Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 02:24:30 -0500 From: Glenn Weiser Subject: Re: Alnis- a bit of perspective
> Does Alanis Morissette suck? How are you to measure that? Does your > opinion count more than the millions who vote with their dollars? Why > does she suck? Because she doesn't play glissandos and trills and > thirty-second notes? Because her playing is atonal? And if it is all > that, who's to say that's *bad*? > Sure we're all entitled to our opinions (the subjective part of what > we say), and that's a lot of what this list is. However, one-upmanship > over opinions gets tiresome. It's easy to attack the successful, > because they're easily identifiable targets not likely to care to bother > with us anyhow. >
Like I said, I can respect anyone who has made it in music to extent AM has. It's lot of work, and she deserves her success. Like Dylan, she uses the harp sometimes just as an auxiliary to her guitar and vocals. So if her playing is not killer, that's a minor criticism relative to what she's all about anyway. I'd rather criticize her for being a male-basher, which I think is stupid (human nature itself is the real culprit, I believe, not either of the genders). But, still, she has a right and the means to go out and voice her opinions, so more power to her.
Glenn W. http://www.celticguitarmusic.com/harppage.htm
