Right

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The promised follow-up questions (two of them in fact)

What have you been most right about? (The world may or may not have caught up to you on this)

Does being seen as "wrong" or "right" about music by other people bother you much?

Comments

Humming beautifully

[koganbot]

Um, "barely up and humming"? Seems to me where her love lyrics are good they're ahead of Dylan's in richness and complexity and generosity, so in some ways she (or she plus Kara or she plus Stan or she plus John or she plus Shelly) is humming way more beautifully than Dylan ever did, but in taking on the social world she's still basically at I get knocked down and I get up again and "I walked a thousand miles while everyone was asleep" - great line, but we'll see how she elaborates on it. So not yet to "Where the home in the valley meets the damp, dirty prison / Where the executioner's face is always well hidden" (Dylan, 1963), not to mention a total twisting itself in and out refracted mirror mindfuck like "Brown Sugar." Or a celeb-relevant "I know there're some people terrified of the bomb. But there are other people terrified to be seen carrying a Modern Screen magazine" (Dylan, 1965).