... Ani DiFranco! I first heard one of her albulms when I was fifteen, and quickly became a rabid fangirl for the next several years. I was the kind of fangirl who knew way too much about her personal life, and the correlations between various albums and what was going on on her life.
There was an Ani lyric for every possible experience; to this day I could probably rattle off lyrics, and definitely sing along, to about 90% of her catalog. I stopped listening about halfway through my pregnancy with Logan, because I was hormonal and her current-at-the-time lyrics were really depressing for me; they were centered on her divorce, while I was a newlywed. It felt like my life had finally veered off in a different direction, and motherhood was one of the very few topics she didn't address in her work. In January of this year, she gave birth to a little girl, Peta, and when she eventually produces a new albulm, I'm hoping it'll resonate with me.
Some more random Ani-related things:
~the last albulm that I went nuts for was evolve.
~the first albulm I heard was dilate, and I was obsessed w/ the untouchable face song.
~the double album revelling/reckoning was released on my 18th birthday.
~the boy who is now my husband got us tickets to see her perform in Memphis as my birthday present that year.
~the show was five days later, was our second date, and was awesome
~i saw her perform again 3 years later at my first Bonnaroo(2004). i was pregnant, and i felt like there was something wierdly full circle about seeing her perform again at that point in my life, on the brink of something huge. a week later, we got married
~at one point during that show, i realized i was trapped in the crowd and out of water (both really common occurrences at B'roo, unfortunately... the crowds at shows can get a more than a little scary if you decide you don't want to be there anymore). I told the women standing near me, and they gave me water from their Camelbaks, and began as they began passing the info through the crowd i found myself being offered by others to let me get in front of them, until I was all the way in the front of the stage against the barricades. at that point another woman told the security guys that i was pregnant, and between that and my vendor bracelet the next thing i knew i was being pulled over the barricade and offered a chair and a cold bottle of water to watch the rest of the show.
~someone tried to throw Ani a trucker hat at that show that said FUCK BUSH on it, and missed. it landed next to my chair and i threw it up onto the stage. she wore it for the last two songs.
~i stopped listening not long after that concert
~i could talk about her all day long, although I haven't in years. noone i know now IRL listens to her, except maybe my SIL
A could also be for aqua, which is one of my favorite colors, along w/ turquoise, teal, and related bluey-green shades. Watch, I'm totally gonna bring that up again for T.
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