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Originally Posted by littlecricket2

Oh, thank you, that totally clears it up!
Ok, this thread can disappear into oblivion now, .
Yes, I like much of Ani's lyrics, although I haven't kept up with her in the past few years--my favorite era of hers was probably late 90's; you know, "Living in Clip" and "Little Plastic Castles." I do like "As Is" a lot but I remember once I was in the car listening to that CD w/ my mom, and when she gets to the chorus and says "As is as is as is" and kinda plays with her voice a bit, my mom tweaked and was like, "ewwwwwww, OMG what are you listening too?!" Sometimes they just don't get it, LOL.

My mom was just like that when I played that song for her! She said, "That song would be bearable if she didn't do that ridiculous thing." But she gave it time, and she developed a fondness for it.

Anyway, I just got into Ani in 2003 and I bought her Evolve album. I think it's really great. You ought to check it out. But I'm with you about some of her earlier stuff being better. I think I'm an early to mid-nineties Ani girl, my fave album is Puddle Dive. The two you mentioned are wonderful, too. I recently bought her newest album, Knuckle Down, and it has some great music, though it just doesn't blow me away like her earlier stuff did.

By the way, how old is your mom, if I can ask that? I was just wondering if age had anything to do with tolerance or intolerance of Ani's weird voice acrobatics, if that's what you call them. My mom's 55.