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precious-things-digest    Sunday, February 27 2000    Volume 05 : Number 048



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: Grammies deny Tori. once again.                    [Freedom110@aol.com]
  Re: Grammies deny Tori. once again.  ["Jeffrey Clark" <ayukawa@twcny.rr.co]

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:07:46 EST
From: Freedom110@aol.com
Subject: Re: Grammies deny Tori. once again.

In a message dated 02/24/2000 8:30:57 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
Mad0nnaFreaK@aol.com writes:

> "I don know what I doing, don know.
>  Should I change my mind, I can decide.
>  There too many variations to consider.
>  No thing I do don do no thing but bring me more to do.
>  It true, I do imbue my blue unto myself.
>  I make it bitter!"
>  - <A HREF="http://www.fiona-apple.com/">Fiona Apple</A> 
>  ::On The Bound::

This song gives me chills. The whole CD does. It's amazing. She's amazing. 
What a mind... Smoking some pot, slipping this cd in, and chilling with 
friends, theres nothing better.

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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:11:48 -0500
From: "Jeffrey Clark" <ayukawa@twcny.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Grammies deny Tori. once again.

> >>Tori was denied both both her Grammy nominations this year, as
> >>usual.....Tori has been nominated almost every single year she has been
in
> >>the business and has NEVER won a Grammy. RIDICULOUS.
>
> True, I really wish someone besides us would reward Tori for her music.
> But, ya know, when I think about it, I don't see Tori getting too upset
over
> this.  I mean, look at some of the nominees:  Britney Spears, Ricky
Martin,
> The Backstreet Boys???  I don't think Tori is really worried about winning

<snip>

Something that needs to be put into consideration, is that Tori's style of
music isn't what's currently mainstream.  It's somewhat sad that awards such
as the Grammys are more like popularity contests than they should be, but
putting a relatively underground (which I say very loosely) singer like Tori
against the fashon-model-turned-idols of today like the Backstreet Boys, and
Britney spears, is like comparing Tolkien with Shakespear, in a sense.

In the January 2000 issue of Spin magazine, there was a Trent Reznor
article, where he said, "When I see what's on 'total request live,' it's
like, 'who ARE these people?  Who's buying this?'  Good Christ!  How did
this happen?"  Sadily, it's true.  The music industry is now focusing on the
beautiful people, whom the consumers deep down would rather have sex with,
than listen to.

Most of Tori's fans listen to her music because it's touched them in some
special way.  I've never met anybody who said that they were truely touched
by "Livin' la vida loca", or "Babe one more time".  I think that knowing
that you've had a drastic effect on peoples' lives, is much more gratifying
than winning a statue.

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