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

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

complete IS better even tho i can't put my finger on the precise difference in meaning -- doesn't to tell something completely mean to tell all of it?

(i guess there's a hint of "a complete telling" being something to do with the mode of delivery, rather than the content: ie "he told the complete story, but in an offhand distracted rather sarcastic way" is NOT the same as "he completely told the story" -- ??)

(haha in fact i think "completely" is subconsciously intended to modify "intricate"! but thx to position in sentence it behaves as a kind of inadvertently transferred epiphet at best, which is why it feels weaker) (even tho -- again -- i'm fairly sure that the upper layer of meaning is much the same, the whole story gets told whichever word is being qualified...)

[koganbot]

It's like, I swallowed it whole, rather than I swallowed it wholly.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha that has exactly the same quality -- they feel more difft than they are! the second you'd tend to use in metaphor-work i think ("i swallowed his tale wholly")

and note the difference between "i swallowed the sausage whole" and "i swallowed the whole sausage" -- the second can (just about) include the possibility that you ate it in bites