>shes just lacking the confidence to really go full on in any >particular focused direction... im thinking she might be >wondering who her audience is, and what that audience might be >willing to take from her. and then she doesnt seem interested >in anything too 'new', so is caught up somewhere between her >usual tastes and going somewhere different with it, so you >just end up with her working with sa-ra and madlib.
i think you're doing a great job arguing *against* her as an alternative, which is funny because i loved '4th world war' and found it highly creative and experimental, but yeah, she didn't really go "all the way" and probably never will
>then again, im not sure why i expect that from her. my main >prob with her is that the songwriting focus doesnt seem to be >there anymore, esp as she is/was one of the best around.
she probably figures if her peers and the newer generation don't care/can't be bothered/don't even know how to write songs, why should she? which, again, does a great job in disqualifying her in this conversation, even for all her talent and occasional ambition