Rules Of The Game #10: Embracing The Ashlee Whirlpool

[koganbot]

The Rules Of The Game #10: Embracing The Ashlee Whirlpool



Still think my writing suffers from a bit of stage fright at LVW, and I've only scratched the surface with Ashlee and don't say much about the sound. But I like this, hope it'll open up Ashlee for some of you the way my Pazz & Jop piece opened up Eminem for some people back in early 2001.

EDIT: Here are links to all but three of my other Rules Of The Game columns (LVW's search results for "Rules of the Game"). Links for the other three (which for some reason didn't get "Rules Of The Game" in their titles), are here: #4, #5, and #8.

[UPDATE: I've got all the links here now:

http://koganbot.livejournal.com/179531.html]

(Oh, and to answer the question that LVW poses in the subhead, I way prefer Ashlee to Alanis, but I think Ashlee's best, "La La" and "Shadow" and "I Am Me," gets edged out by my favorite couple of Beatles songs ("She Loves You" and "You Can't Do That"). I've always hated "Let It Be," however.)

Comments

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I don't mind that as much as the lines that follow it: "Held up so high / On such a breakable thread," where "FRAGILE" WOULD BE WAY MORE APPROPRIATE, YOU GODDAMN MORON. It makes me only slightly less angry than Anna Nalick's severely botched mass transit simile ("we can't jump the track / we're like cars on a cable") in "Breathe (2 AM)."