Airhead

[aurs01!aurxc3!whitcomb@mcnc.org (Jonathan Whitcomb)]

stev0@sti.com (Steve Berlin) writes:

  With all this recent mention of k.d. lang recently (the ONLY c&w worth
  listening to, IMNSHO), I'm surprised no one has posted (or even mentioned)
  a GREAT interview in this week's Advocate.  Look for k.d. on the cover.
  While normally I dislike most interviews with (for lack of a better word)
  pop singers (including Kate) (ESPECIALLY kate - see below), this one is
  a real fun read.

If you're interested in some other good artists with roots in both
country and rock'n'roll, I'd suggest Foster and Lloyd, Syd Straw and
Lucinda Williams.  I was very much in the "I hate anything country" camp
a few years ago, but these artists (and a few others) have helped expand
my brain to accept the occasional weeping steel guitar and heartfelt
wail.  Sometimes I even feel the need to buy cowboy boots and abuse my
girlfriend.  
  
  ObKate:  Kate is the world's greatest lyricist and songwriter.  Kate is
  the world's greatest musician.  Kate is the world's greatest singer.  
  Kate COULD BE the world's greatest record producer and video director,
  but chooses not to be for some odd reason.

Er...feeling superlative, Steve?  I'll agree that she put out one of the
best pop albums ever (The Dreaming).  (Oh, Geeze, he used the "P" word
again.)  
  
  Then why - WHY!?!?! does she sound like such a - well, airhead, in 90%
  of the interviews she gives?
  
That's Miss Airhead to you, Steve.  Besides, it's "bubblehead".  And you
never did deliver your promised essay on the subject!

May I offer the suggestion that Kate's right hemisphere is slightly more
developed than her left (uh, that's *brain* hemisphere for the hormonally
challenged)?  

-Jonathan    
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