[LEMONS] 2.27.2002
" I would rather be chained to a cheetah and dragged through a street of knives than listen to another Alanis Morissette song. What I feel for her isn't simple hate, it is an all-encompassing repulsion not unlike what you might feel if you woke up to discover a four-pound cockroach using your toothbrush." The link is to a spectaular Washington Post article (via today's papers). But the quote originally comes from Spite.
But the whole thing makes me stop and thing for a minute. The record company "alternatives" are no more. Everyone knows the game. Sure there's numetal, pop punk, and a thousand and one radiohead knockoffs, all of which record companies are aiming directly at sullen alientated teens. But for some reason it doesn't seem as egregious as it did in the mid 90s. The lies aren't quite as baldfaced. Bad as she may be, Britney is no Alanis. Alanis, in fact, used to be Britney and then tried to become PJ Harvey. And that was the problem.
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