Word: label
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...past will say, "Oh, my God, she's singing this to me." I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me. I feel like I was very confined in that first record. A lot of people at the record label wanted that record to be very pop driven. I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore...
...heart, I have to move away from it. Even if the label said I had to make another record like that, I don't think I could. Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy. You just have more things to say about real life and real people and the bitterness that you get from people...
...soon as I came to the point where we were going to release my album, the label was like, you know, this name, it's too difficult to pronounce. They wanted it to be more American sounding. I said no because this is my name. It's my identity...
...enemies, "the mighty multinationals/have monopolized the oxygen/so it's as easy as breathing/for us all to participate." In this light, you could argue that DiFranco's greatest political act as a musician was a classic Marxist one: seizing the means of production, namely her own Righteous Babe record label. Protest music is indeed alive, in some places even thriving. And in a funny way, it turns out it really is about the Benjamins...
There are a lot of great things coming out of Scotland now, which is very exciting. There's a Chemikal Underground record label that has great acts. Travis, the Delgados and Idlewild--they're all Scottish bands. It goes in waves. It becomes fashionable for the record companies to come north of the border. And at the moment, I think Scotland's enjoying a sort of renaissance in that sense. For a long time in London, they believed that the Irish, Welsh and Scots were heathens and had nothing of value to contribute to the music scene, and then...