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From:
philippe-petit
To:
Kent williams
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Date:
Sun, 03 Nov 2002 13:30:28 +0100
Subject:
Re: [idm] Future of bjork, past of bjork
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quoted 3 lines I'm not dogging you phillipe, but it's always interesting to me that> I'm not dogging you phillipe, but it's always interesting to me that > when women artists collaborate with men, the standard assumption is that > the men are somehow the 'real' brains in the operation. It's really unfair,
well kent did I ever said such a macho assumption ? if i remember well my post I was saying that Bjork was totally able to compose and really good at it
quoted 8 lines Bjork has always worked with collaborators, but she is very firmly in> > Bjork has always worked with collaborators, but she is very firmly in > control. More than someone like Madonna, who seems to put her street cred > on her platinum card every album. Reading between the lines of Matmos' > interviews, in fact, they would have done things completely differently if > they'd had more control -- she was a fan of their work, but their contributions > were very carefully delimited by her overall conceptions of the songs. >
and I also wrote that I would have liked Vespertine better if Matmos had been allowed to go wilder, I do not feel their touch enough and Vespertine is not a record i listen to In any case i respect Bjork, and being on the women subject one should listen to Ikue Mori's music too. ciao - philippe | 0000 \\\\.. \\\\ __ http://www.bip-hop.com _---| 0000 \\\\..\\\\ ==> contemporary electronica challenging the ears and the mind --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org