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Seth Milby

must watch!

Joel Wende

I'm with Ani on this one. Especially the "It pisses off everyone around you" line. I pay to hear and see an artist perform. Not to have a bunch of out of time and off key people on one side, and a bunch of high pitch screamers on the other side. This is particularly important with someone like Ani who changes phrasing, timing and lyrics all the time. The people in the audience are NEVER singing the right thing and are ALWAYS singing it badly. 

Jsays1

This is so well said. I needed to read this today. Thanks for writing it mindrunfree.

eqsmooth

SHE IS THE ONLY ARTIST WHO COULD POSSIBLY GET WAY W/TALKING SO FRANKLY & HONESTLY W/HER FANS. And they ARE fans, not just an audience. They respect her so much. I can't imagine saying that to a crowd. "Please don't sing along." I've been at Yale and Smith and Carnegie Hall for her shows and I witnessed her repeatedly trying to stop all the wild cheering, but never did I hear her stopping a sing along. Gutsy & Truthful. God, I just love her so much.

gitgirl24

another boy with a small mind afraid of a woman who is like four feet tall and brilliant, she is so much... MORE of a human being than who you were when you first made this comment "longjohnny" (doubtful).I hope for your sake that you've changed your views... don't want to sound pessimistic, but it's doubtful. this woman has MILLIONS of fans, both men and women, who adore her music, and some of the things she stands for. What do you have? You sound pretty bitter. Sucks to be you. :/

JQevidentself

SHE IS ADORABLE. MY HONEY ♥ OH EM GEEEEEEE. lol cant wait to see her in concert in september

mindrunfree

It's so crazy how we can care so deeply about someone who cannot reciprocate. Why do we expect reciprocation? Sometimes loving someone means loving someone and that's it. There's nothing else to it. There's no reward; loving is the reward and that is it. No couple hood, no love letters back and forth, no relationship..just love. Why in the hell does it have to hurt so much to simply love?

Matthew Rajotte

10 years ago someone I loved so much played this for me and said it was about me. It made me feel so guilty for things that were not my fault and I realized somewhere along the line that I am who I am and if I wasn't perfect so what. You create a vision of someone in your head and they dont live up to it oh well. Thats your fault. Your the one that is flawed expecting someone to change. Love people for who they are.I hope you read this someday and know, you'll never be forgiven.

Kimberly Johnson

Chill out? Buddy, I haven't even warmed up yet. And I won't. I refuse to touch base with ignorance in such a way, in way that might make me stoop down to your level. I can't do that to myself, wasting my time trying to change a mind that is not open to openness.

Kimberly Johnson

You can't be serious. Nigger? Tramp? First of all, if you hadn't noticed, "nigger" is now highly offensive and if we needed to define it, I suppose it would refer to black people. And looking like a tramp. That's another good cliche, all I can say is that is unthinkable. Check out her clothes man, look at the way she carries herself. There is nothing about her that screams "tramp." Even if she becomes a black prostitute, I would still listen to her music, go to he shows,and purchase her records.

TheDreamzMachine

Love this song so much.. no words do justice.

Mary Beale

OH LORDY MAY AM I JELLY, I loved this movie so much, so many people hated it because of how it didn't just focus on Ani, how it focused on several different things like RBR's work in Buffalo, the Congress House and Bitch and Animal, but I dug it man.

Adriane Allyn

Listening to this on repeat. Damnit! I love her. Better than therapy.

automaticsystematic

I think she was kind of saying, "Would you go to your favorite movie and recite all the lines?" I can see how the singing along can be distracting for her; say she wants to tweak a line or note...she couldnt if she's being goaded to sing the studio version by a mass of people. Go to a comedy club to heckle!

Baskerville22

Is this supposed to be singing? Awful dross....for the new generations of barbarians.

Loryn Spangler-Jones

To those of you playing my game....this is NOT it :-)

Hedonistic Calm

Yes, thank you for thinking and speaking it. People who have personal if beautiful perspective shouldn't be dumbed down to their poetic projections, even if they can be respected for it by the happy and/or drunken sort. She got content beyond appearance.

Hedonistic Calm

Ani is formative of my soul, and I am so thankful I couldn't humanly deny her a place there among all the others.

Katy VanDyke

You, Ani, are beautiful and amazing. I love you, your music, and the progression of your music.

K Durga

All the world's a stage and we the actors and/or critics

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