`UP' TIME WITH DIFRANCO.Byline: James Hames hames linked metal, curved bars that fit around the horse collar and serve as the attachment for the trace chains and traces. Staff Writer Although she calls herself a folk singer and will protest that she's no heroine, to her fans Ani DiFranco is the center of their solar system solar system, the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass. . Nonetheless it was the crowd at the Universal Amphitheatre on Saturday that went supernova. DiFrancophiles displayed the sort of mania that accompanied the Beatles - not to be confused with Beatlemania: DiFranco is not an incredible simulation. Stimulation is more like it. Touring in support of ``Up Up Up Up Up Up,'' DiFranco opened the show with ``Virtue,'' among the highlights of that self-produced and -distributed (as always) CD. The under-capacity crowd was standing already and stood for the next couple of funk/folk-filled hours. Fans were fervid for her most famous songs: ``Shy,'' for which she got a Grammy nomination, and ``32 Flavors''; and they cheered the biting passages in a new song about ``high school kids who confuse liberty with weaponry'' that ``opens fire'' on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. and the NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting , suggesting there's more than enough blame to go around on that topic. Among her armload of albums, her finger-pointing songs are among her best. Saturday, more of DiFranco's songs were about interpersonal politics rather than global politics. However, she could have staged a show that made more obvious that difference. Newer songs are more ``up'' and profess less anger. She may well exhibit less unabashed rage, but she still strums with a clenched clench tr.v. clenched, clench·ing, clench·es 1. To close tightly: clench one's teeth; clenched my fists in anger. 2. fist. |
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