Line Out - Comments on Joanna Newsom Playing Benaroya

Comment by Levislade

Levislade — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:49:23 -0800

I know it takes all kinds, and there's no accounting for tastes, etc., etc., but I really can't help but see this as the result of some insidious mass delusion, or a joke gone too far, or perhaps a case of Imminent Death Syndrome.

Comment by Sally Struthers Lawnchair

Sally Struthers Lawnchair — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:40:17 -0800

Levislade....I think I'm agreeing with you...if you're saying you don't understand why the entire world loves Joanna Newsom's music.

Comment by Levislade

Levislade — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:54:14 -0800

That is what I am saying, SSL. That is what I am saying.

Comment by Sally Struthers Lawnchair

Sally Struthers Lawnchair — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:06:41 -0800

Well Sir, then I do agree with you! I do!

I have to say though, I read an interview with her and she seems like a really cool person. But, that voice...coupled with that harp playing...just not for me is all I will say.

Comment by Jeff Kirby

Jeff Kirby — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:27:16 -0800

Joanna Newsom is brilliant. One of the best songwriters currently making music. It did take a bit for me to warm up to her voice, but once I did, she became one of the most magnetizing artists I had ever heard. Her show at the Showbox last year on the Ys tour blew my mind.

Comment by imaginary dana

imaginary dana — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:27:44 -0800

I'm with Levislade on this one. Can't get behind the JN at all...

Comment by greg

greg — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:34:26 -0800

i dont know whats wrong with you guys.

i cant fucking wait.

Comment by pete maravich's socks

pete maravich's socks — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:07:54 -0800

Newsom's music is like grabbing a peach, biting into it expecting sweetness, but instead getting a really sour lemon taste... while someone in the background runs nails against a chalkboard.

Comment by robert

robert — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:55:24 -0800

ooh ooh can i write something bad about a musician too .....
.....like you guys up there are doing something worth sharing
like me grandma says-
if you don't have anything good to say,
well then...

Comment by arrrrg

arrrrg — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:05:08 -0800

I do not concur. JN's music is fantastic. Her voice is playful and spritely (bjorkian), and addictive. The lyrics are put together so intentionally, fit together like a hand-made crazy quilt, with the sensibility of some sort of obsessive outsider artist. The first listening of Ys straight through made me cry because of the cathartic power of her words about the meteor/ite/oid

Comment by sparklett's

sparklett's — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:54:08 -0800

Yeah, on paper she's an embarrassment, but in my ear she makes me so very happy, and all the playa hating in the world's not going to take that away from me. Doesn't seem like her strange balancing act can last forever but at this moment she's the real deal.