Hard being her

[koganbot]

This makes me unhappy, though for all I know it's fine or really good for all the people involved. Can't imagine it'll be great for the little one.

Also wanted Ashlee to have to surmount the artistic challenge of generating lyrics while being fundamentally happy.

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[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

I actually like a bunch of songs off her first album (and am cautiously optimistic about her next album because it's supposed to be a lot like her first album) but...eh. They're still missing something. A discernible personality, for instance. An accurate and nuanced portrayal of actual human emotion. (This, the lack of a sense that there's a unique person with unique thoughts and feelings involved in this song, is also a problem I have with Kelly Clarkson and occasionally Demi Lovato, but both Kelly and Demi make up for it by being awesome and specific in other ways, whereas Avril is just a sucking black hole of vapidity from which no thoughtfulness or honesty has ever emerged.)

I don't think finding your footing, breaking free, grasping the next rung, etc. are ever things you're done proving you can do. You figure that shit out, you get about a year of feeling really good about yourself and your ability to survive things, and then something comes along and you have to figure that shit out all over again.

[koganbot]

Yeah, of course agree about never being done.

How's Demi doing, by the way? Haven't been following for the last month or so. Is she still lying low, trying to recover?

[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

Out of rehab, has been seen entering an outpatient treatment center in Santa Monica, no news on when/how she'll return to work.