I guess my comment was an attempt to define what alternative means now. I’m using the word alternative because that’s what the media called them back in the 90s, and because of the whole alternagirl thing (Angela Chase, etc).
I actually only started listening to her music when Extraordinary Machine came out (I was 11 when When The Pawn came out, wasn’t really aware of her then), but she’s been one of my favorite singers ever since. Matthew Wrather OTI Staff Oct 21st 2013 1:13 pm #.Afterall, Ani’s genre is folk, right? And Fiona made some almost-jazz and Tori gets very instrumental (someone get Stokes, I’m running out of words to describe how not-pop they all sound, each one in their own way/genre) Why was “alternative” girl rock or whatever so popular in the 90s and so niche now? Is it because everything’s more niche, or is it because the mainstream has gone too far into Katy Perry/Ke-dollar sign-ha/Rihanna territory?Īnd is the mainstream now so mainstream-y ~because~ of the “niche-fication” of everything else?īoth in terms of image and musically. Or is the current alternagirl someone like Regina Spektor? And if that’s the case, who else? tUnE-yArDs? St Vincent?
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I’m watching Ani DiFranco on TV (hi Matt!) and realized: could Lorde, Haim and short-haired Miley be this generation’s alternagirls (akin to Fiona, Tori, Ani, etc) Or have we gone too mainstream to the point that even the alternative-ish girls are still deeply rooted in the mainstream (Lorde making essentially a hip hop song while criticizing current hip hop songs, Miley having started as a Disney star, Haim and their “past”).
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