Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Live Your Life

"Swift is exceptionally precocious, but cowriting credits are the rule in this bunch, and Svengalis are rare. Whether they've actually spent time listening to the Ronettes, the Runaways or Lauryn Hill or not, these women have benefited from their elders' hard-won lessons.
"Yet if empowerment is a given for this new generation, it's also a hotly debated concept."

Ann Powers in the Los Angeles Times discusses the year of the ingénue in pop music.

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