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Not a Pretty Girl | 
 enlarge | Artist: Ani Difranco
Label: Righteous Babe
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  80 reviews
Sales Rank: 23015
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 7
UPC: 748731700720
EAN: 0748731700720
ASIN: B0000058MQ
Release Date: July 18, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Worthy | | • | Tiptoe | | • | Cradle and All | | • | Shy | | • | Sorry I Am | | • | Light of Some Kind | | • | Not a Pretty Girl | | • | The Million You Never Made | | • | Hour Follows Hour | | • | 32 Flavors | | • | Asking Too Much | | • | This Bouquet | | • | Crime for Crime | | • | Coming Up | | • | 32 Flavors |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Ani DiFranco's fondness for cheeky self-effacement marks her fourth album, Not a Pretty Girl. Having redefined our whole concept of cult following, the funky, punky singer/songwriter has parlayed her prowess for six-string blues guitar into an unique alternative acoustic sound. This album marks real growth for the musician. Songs like the title track or "Worthy" are more fully realized than many of her earlier pieces that lean toward artful scat or spare guitar and vocal arrangements. It also precedes DiFranco's more experimental work, a characteristic recurrent with increasing frequency on subsequent recordings. --Nick Heil
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| Customer Reviews:
One of my favorites.... January 8, 2009
S. J. Young (Wilmington NC)
This cd is like one of my first loves...simply because w/ this cd i was introduced to the wonderful voice,music and soulful oh so true lyrics of Ani Difranco. I would recomend it to anyone....and with a smile say ENJOY!
I ain't no damsel in distress. October 1, 2008
Caitlyn Fasse
This album, so far, to me, has been her best. It is raw and emotional, and I feel that she spends a lot of time apologizing and, at the same time, refusing to apologizing for what she's done and who she is.
This album is an anthem for feminists everywhere. One song that always grounds me is "Cradle and All." I love her adaptation of "Rock-a-bye baby" and how her words make me feel calm throughout the stress that blinds me throughout the day.
"I'm not a pretty girl" reminds me to be an individual regardless of the chauvinistic society we live in. To be the woman that I am and to ignore the beliefs that crowd my femininity.
Whenever I'm feeling pissed off or bitter, I listen to this album to remind me that I'm not the only one who's angry, and that sometimes, I have a right to be. It also reminds me not to accept oppression as a part of life.
My Favorite Ani Album January 21, 2008
ILuvtheGoldenGirls (Phila, PA)
As a person that owns every CD that Ms. DiFranco has made must say that Not A Pretty Girl is my absolute favorite. The songs are edgy and completely rocking. Its political and emotional and just AMAZING!! I think this album is grossly underrated by her fans. The title track has quite possibly the best lyrics that she has written ever. It speaks to me as a woman and an individual. The songs on here changed my life.
Ani rarely dissapoints September 11, 2007
C. Whitt (GA, USA)
Yeah, sure, Ani is a pinko commy, and I vehemently disagree with almost all of her politics(which she discusses very bluntly in her music). However, she does make some very good music, and this album is no exception.
 two and a half July 28, 2006
thescalpel (USA)
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
We are all pretty familiar with the concept of over-acting. You know, like Al Pacino in Scarface. But is it possible to "over-sing." I think it is, and I'd argue Ani does it in every single song she's ever written. "eaaarggAh! OhheeeeOO!, UyayayayayEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Probably it does the trick if you're PMSing real bad, but as a dude I have a little trouble relating. For a while I thought she had bad lyrics. But then I tried just reading them straight up and realized hey they are totally decent, it's just the vocals that make them tough to stomach. Shakespeare would probably be bad if you said, "the-e-e-ea-a-a- quAAliteee-e-e-e-eEEEEEE of mer cy is not STRAYEEEYYAAAYYEEEAYYEEEAAAAAAnedahugooooh!...." That said, even though they aren't bad perse, they are sort of annoying. I don't like coffee houses, or people who frequent them. Which seems to be sort of the Ani universe. On the other hand, if you like to get an expresso before catching the subway downtown to catch the Innercity Radical Anarchocommunist Existential Collective's screening of their latest short film about transgender intellectual insurgents in the world of independent media publishing in Seattle, where you'll meet a group of girls wearing different colored socks and quirky glasses, and at least one radical photographer named Jeremy, with whom you plan to go backpacking this weekend on a scenic trail where you'll write obsessively about yourself in a journal, all the while missing the amazing plants and animals because you don't know anything about nature except that you hate corporations who want to destroy it, and you're too busy journalling about the flaky dudes you sleep with, plus your parents were hippies and you're exactly like them and not original at all, you'll probably totally dig the vibe here.
On to the positives, Ani is a great guitarist. I dig her style, and wish she was a little more guitar-based and less vocal based, because this is really where she stands out in the singer-songwriter genre. She doesn't just lay down some simple chords, she works the strings, and she has skills. Actually, if she stopped singing, and got someone else to sing while she wrote the music, I think she'd probably be great.
Also, she should get someone else to produce these albums. You have to turn all her albums way up to hear anything but her voice.
If you like her voice though, this would probably be a 5 star album.
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