Still right here in 2024. Ani, your poetry is still and always will be legendary. You are the epitome of “We Can Do It! 💪

"God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash A thousand eyes will smoulder with jealousy while you are just flying past.." Powerful

@sage6238

Жыл бұрын

My first tattoo**

Who's still listening in 2020!

@kaisalove7615

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 13 and just starting to listen to her....wow

@cmommymack9464

3 жыл бұрын

2021

@deathstr1ker6666

3 жыл бұрын

I never listened to this in 2020.

@mrs.realtruther3063

3 жыл бұрын

I'm listening!!! ❤❤

@Noname-dg3pm

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

2024 I’m almost 42 and I found her in 1994 I still run to her when I need to remember how bad ass I am

This song helped me to survive one of the most difficult and vulnerable moments in my life. I was 25 then. Now at almost 50, it makes me nostalgic for my youth despite how trying those years were.

@blibjorb

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve instructed my son to play this at my funeral when I die.

@thomasmurphy-hj7ws

Жыл бұрын

Pre-dyin' Whoopage suits , yea!!?! Where's the harm ? (Luv Mr. D 4E&...

@alijones1279

Жыл бұрын

It's helping me through the most difficult and vulnerable times of my life. I'm 28. Happy her nurturing is timeless.

@alexandramercer9308

Жыл бұрын

Totally got ya

This was my theme song when I was 25. Funny,at 46 it still is relevant.

@WabsEnt

5 жыл бұрын

I am 24 now and feel the same as you did :) this song opened my eyes

@merrysol4920

4 жыл бұрын

SAME (33 now)

@hollys4664

4 жыл бұрын

I was 19. Heard this song in Home Depot the other day and I had to smile to myself. I wonder what my 1996 self would think of me now ☺️

@paulelliott2320

4 жыл бұрын

Sprucy **** you’re worth love

@ashleyjackson2509

4 жыл бұрын

Girl same. BuT, I can say turning 30 in April, not as relevant as it was at 22-25 ! Thank God!

2022. Best ever. Ani will always be a beacon of light. A lighthouse of music for people in dark times...

@loganrobbins6008

2 жыл бұрын

I got a text randomly from my mother about listen to the percussion because I am a drummer. 😅

When I was much younger, and sadder and more alone, I would listen to Ani while waiting for the bus, or lying in the dark in my room. And it helped me survive psychically and it helped me cry and rage and celebrate. Much gratitude, hope she knows how many people she's helped - I suspect she does.

@todddavini1233

3 жыл бұрын

Been a while since I listened to this or her...sounds just as good as first listen. We ❤ you Ani

@greymatters333

17 күн бұрын

i hope Ani knows how many (now womxns) girls lives she’s saved 🥲❤️- i’m one of them.

Somebody got me hooked on Ani's music the year I went insane. If it wasnt for musicians like Ani Difranco my life would probably look like that bathroom in Trainspotters. Just saying thanks.

@UberAV

3 жыл бұрын

Ani helped plenty of us go insane. You're not the only one.

Truly underrated song of the 90s that should have been more popular. I love it.

@pennybaer203

6 жыл бұрын

Stormwatcher so do i

@xtraflo

4 жыл бұрын

Seems like Rhianna tried to capture this with that Work song she did. Failed btw ...

@UberAV

3 жыл бұрын

The Alana Davis version did well in the 90's. I bought that CD. I respect Ani for her business savvy but never cared for her as a musician. I never really got it but she did it her way on her own label and played alongside many greats so she's done more than I. She's fought in the arena and won. I'm just a naysayer from the peanut gallery.

This song and album got me through one of the hardest spaces in my life. It was on the CD in my car non-stop and helped me reflect on a major life event.

@artsynomad7415

8 жыл бұрын

+Peggy Semingson Me too!!

@cameomiddleton79

7 жыл бұрын

Yeeeeeeeeees, me too

@vtoups78

7 жыл бұрын

Peggy Semingson mmmhmmm!

@sortedtales

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, and I'm a guy.

@kirstenglae

6 жыл бұрын

Peggy Semingson Me too, all of college. Seriously would just belt these songs out in my car to and from classes.... Helped me tremendously. Love her.

the snare drum is just a tiny bit behind the beat. this is genius.

The nostalgia that comes in hearing her is overwhelming❤️‍🩹✨

I still love these songs over 20 years later

this song is so beautiful. Speaks multitudes.

Ani deserves SO MUCH MORE CREDIT for how many women she has saved with her music, how many girls she has inspired with everything she has accomplished, and how she still leads the way holding a light for the one's still left in the dark. ❤️🖤❤️🖤

excellent songwriting & musicianship. I live for the drum outtro✨

@twebster179

6 жыл бұрын

Zomzi Love Me too!! Live the energy was so amazing. 💗

Her words have carried me through a couple real tragedies in my lifetime. God bless you for sharing your pain. ❤ I will not keep any angels waiting.

I never understood why the other version of this (Alana Davis) got so much airplay and this one didn't. This one is just superb, much better than the cover. Her voice is sublime.

@whyyoulidl

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't realise this was the original; I only heard Alana's vesion. Still glad to have found this - will look up her other stuff.

@vonnshlabbah

2 жыл бұрын

Because ... alana fit some corporate equation better. Like. Why did the " Torn " version by Natalie get more attention then the Edna Swap version.? Cause of record industry politics...corporate fuckery and ( in general) chucklefuckery. Good news ... the writer gets most of the monies.

@divicrockett1293

11 ай бұрын

Ani is the only version I knew of until today at the grocery store heard the Alana version but hers is just nothing even close to the original. That’s always the issue people who loved Alana’s probably don’t really know the importance of Queen Ani DiFranco!

@beyondwhatisknown

10 ай бұрын

Ani DiFranco owns her own record company and does all her own marketing and gets 100% of the profits. So, her music won't be advertised through the regular avenues of radio play. That might explain it. Also, the Alana Davis version is a more universally broadly accessible due to certain lyics it leaves out.

this song speaks to me.. only ever wanted to get on with life.. but people just gotta be nasty and cruel towards you. i'm not a saint, we all make mistakes. but i'm capable of being kinder than anyone else i've met.. been through hell, been volatile, been unpredictable all when i was a kid.. you grow up and people can't use that against you so don't use it against yourself.

she really is one of the greatest artists of all time!!!!

@corbinshangreaux5446

6 жыл бұрын

The pixies

@emilymaleahtench9409

5 жыл бұрын

she's definitely more "great" than Donald Trump's vision for America

@elmoblatch9787

3 жыл бұрын

true

@scottyspaceboots9

2 жыл бұрын

fact!!

@Mika_glover

2 жыл бұрын

Her and Fiona Apple

Ani DeFranco is the one person I wanna meet before I die. She just seems so chill. I love her

@Contra2075

7 жыл бұрын

I saw her live so I feel blessed that she is one of few 90s artists I saw.

@charms2

6 жыл бұрын

better before than after.

@LifeWithDina

6 жыл бұрын

Difranco

@sethwetzel974

5 жыл бұрын

If you ever get the chance to meet her she will treat you like a long lost friend. I know cause I met her back in 1998. She was so down to earth and wonderful too. I even hugged her and gave her kiss and she kissed back.

@lindsayjaworek1750

5 жыл бұрын

Good call

Ani, thank you for just existing...

I think being misunderstood is a big theme in this song. Most people are pretty polarized and things seem very black and white to them .. and a lot of the times they are. But sometimes with some people; they just aren't.

@UberAV

3 жыл бұрын

It's a song.

This song makes so many different emotions clear to me when I am not feeling right.....or when I am too stoned.

I love how this song connects me to myself ❤❤❤❤

Ani has always been and will always be an Iconic! Thanks lady! Your music means as much as it did when I was a teenager. The eclectic sound, and the way you screamed words softly; the way you recognized everyone as best you could...and called us out.

I feel empowered.

@sarmonicaj

4 жыл бұрын

You should feel empowered, it's a very good song. Percussion is ridiculous!

This song just came back to me after many years passed since I heard it, wracking my brains for the song name, artist name, or lyrics. I think it was the “poster girl” line plus the name Ani in the end that I recalled. Such a beautiful track, so glad I found it again.

Thank you, Ani, you have helped me through a lot. I am grateful for your presence and contribution to this universe.

This song helped me out in my teenage years. Thank you Ani.

Who’s listening to this 2022, and felt every word

🎵🎶🎤God help you if you are a phoenix and dare to rise up from the ash.....

@daniellemasterson7590

5 жыл бұрын

Love this quote.

@einsteinzvice2679

5 жыл бұрын

My Rottie was female; named her "Phenyx" after she survived Parvo-Virus as a new pup! She passed in 2006. My Rottie these days is a male this time, & his name is "Justice."😎😍😇

@SUGAR_XYLER

4 жыл бұрын

🔥 👠 🔥

@reginagarcia-sena562

4 жыл бұрын

He did when he gave us this song through our Ani...Love her to the end!! in my twenties and now in my forties!!

@cortesione

3 жыл бұрын

Amen.

First time I heard this song. It's great!

If your here in 2021, you’ve got good vibes ❤️

A heard about ani difranco after a woman handed me a ani album after a tori Amos concert in 92

@ammortal

4 жыл бұрын

Talk about raising the bar!

@FinnMcRiangabra

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky you. For me it was an office mate in 99. Late to the party, but still a fan.

I love Ani . I identify so much with her perspective.

This song tells the story of my life...

Saw her live a few years ago- she is AWESOME! I grew up on her (boarding school) and LOVE her!

I’m still listening in 2021! And plan to continue to listen Ani in 2022! 💜😊💜

I love it when Ani puts me in my place.

I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some and I'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head cause someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said

@UberAV

3 жыл бұрын

eat what

Ani DiFranco has been a go to of mine for years! amazing!!

i just discovered this song and this artist I'm so dam lucky

I just remembered this song. I now wish I had kept up with Ani after first hearing her in grad school in the late 90s.

This song is so beautiful I feel as is my simple words wouldn't do it justice. Love you Ani ❤

5:29 I'm a percussionist and I have NO idea what that sound is, but it's amazing and I'm obsessed with it! 🤩

I love this whole album!

FOUND THIS MUSIC AT BLOOMINGTON ❤️❤️ LOVE THE MOVIEEEE

GREAT loud soundtrack! Thank you! #Love

She's so perfect ♥

This song. Was everything, then. Is everything and more, now

I just needed an Ani fix. She does that to you sometimes.

I love this song. So. Much.

Thank you Ani 💖

A Phoenix Rising Up From the Ash!?!! Most fantabulous!

Love Ani so much!

Still listening in 2024! And have to make a Wake playlist for myself, just in case. Ani and Tori are the only artists on it. ❤

You got on my list Ani!!!

I love that KZread thinks she’s small enough potatoes that there was no commercial telling me how I’d be better if I lost weight, wore their makeup or bought the 2022 lineup of trucks and just transitioned into the next ani song. Love you, Babe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This song is a love letter to my soul.

Sooo aching beautiful

God help you if you're a Phoenix. And you dare rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder smother with jealousy while you are just flying /:

@wellnesswithkashi3737

4 жыл бұрын

joanna howell ughhh

I've had a crush on Ani since 1990...

Really good artist. Got famous at 18 and made a full album a year later.

When I need to just meditate. This.

What an album. I grew up listening not to this one but to Dilate. Missed this for 15 years. She's one of my favourite guitarists. Really unique. She attacks the shit out of it. She's underappreciated for sure. Most of the best artists of the last 30 years haven't got the attention they should. Seems only in death..

🎼my jam🎶since forever. Lyrically epic🎼

Any Bloomington fans here? :)

Bloomington !

I love the concept of 32 Flavors (of ice cream). It has been a long time since I have thought along these lines. Great rhythm section on this tune.

I just keep on waiting for her to sing that part "I am..." just like from Alana Davis cover

@IllDawgable

5 жыл бұрын

She did do it justice.

Looking at the below comments...let me say as a fella'. I remember seeing her live in 2005 and crying. I think music can absolutely transcend all boundaries. Be them gender/race/politics...I don't care. We all feel. We are all part of the same carousel...round and round it goes. Love everybody and treat everyone well.

Smooth and relaxing

love the drums at the end.

i remember this song by alana davis. it was my favorite song.

@jeannebakker246

5 жыл бұрын

andrew parker I used to go back and forth listening to them, never got sick of it.

7/19/22. Still love. Got me through and still does.

Very good music.

Im glad that she had made this song and others. This is one of the many few that I sing along with that enables me to express to the whole community of human nations about WHO I KNOW EXACTLY WHO THE FUCK I SAY AND SPRAY I AM!!!

Well that was beautiful

I have loved her music since High School. Now she is going to perform in a city near me in August.

Love you!!

nice music love it bro.new friend here

One of my mothers favorite songs.

2022 now. I was 20 then. And I'll never be the same. Just as I'll enevr forget this song.

Thanks shoe. Love you! Sis!

gracias Ani¡ hoy me devolviste la ganas de escuchar música grabada...

I hord this song in Macy's June 27 2019 for the first time,but i thought i hord it before.I'm a fan now love her music.

great❤❤❤❤❤❤ song....🌈❤👑🌍

So excited to see her in Nashville this Friday! Chastity Brown is touring with her.

I just want to see her live South African promoters do the right thing id pay any amount for this

yes!

SEEN ANI 3X. WOW. Been too long. ‼️✅1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣✅❤🤞✌

Such a sweet and slippery voice

Nice ☺

This is the day I found out I was an Ani DeFranco fan.

It's a song of sigh. Thanks and shimmer. X

I'm still listening in 2023.. getting ready to be 2024!!!! ❤

아름다워요.

Written By Ani DiFranco Vocals Andy Stochansky & Ani DiFranco Percussion Ani DiFranco Bass Ani DiFranco Acoustic Guitar Ani DiFranco Drums Andy Stochansky Kalimba Ani DiFranco Release Date July 18, 1995 Cover By 32 Flavors by Alana Davis