TITTWW continue to laud, debate, discredit, and dismiss Joanna Newsom's Ys

Structure really matters that much to you?

well just think of each song as having several choruses that she comes back to rather than verse/chorus/verse/chorus/blah/blah/blah.

thats not a hard and fast rule, though. "Sawdust and Diamonds" is more like a series of long and crescendo'd verses. "Only Skin" is ambulatory but works in several cycles with random phrasing in between.

Its better to think of the structure of the songs like poems than linear prose: lots of self-referencing, weaving of meaning, rhymes and slant rhymes. Go read some Whitman or Yevtushenko and then come back to it.

Y'know what's fun? Emptying a helium balloon into my cat's mouth and kicking her in the gut till she squeals like a child's slide whistle. One time I swear she cried out "OH-OH OH-OH-OH DESIRE!" but she was probably just caterwauling in feline agony.

I wouldn't call my cat an acquired taste.

I ♥ Joanna Newsom

Here's a video of the entire Philly show. DivX format.

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