>My comment still holds for the first album, she'd have to
>*cough* go back to the stiffed stuff to escape it.

regardless of overall quality or enjoyability, you really think stiffed was as creative as the yotches you're talking about?


>Is it really that hard to see how the packaging affects. I
>mean with Janelle, a whole part of it is buying into the
>'character'. And the music helps to dress up the character.
>It isn't that I don't think she's just tryiing to be her, but
>in order to do so at the levle she has so far, has meant in
>essence becoming a caricature of herself. Not a parody mind
>you, but just over emphasis on the character aspect.

the fact that someone is even attempting this and pulling it off with a degree of success means she belongs in this conversation... this isn't a lana del rey situation where we're supposed to buy the character as the real person, this is clearly a creative project meant to be rich in allegory... give credit where due


>To reduce it to lo-fi,
>denies the complexity of sound contained within.

i'll have to take your word for it