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Word: popstress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2002-2002
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That's good because such relationship-speak allows Morissette, 27, to be specific. On her third album as a rock singer-songwriter (she released two as a teen popstress), she tells her men precisely which behaviors please her, which irk her and which of her demands are nonnegotiable. On the song Surrendering, she sings, "I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces." The line swings like a dump truck, but it's charmingly transparent. Even when her words are simple, she likes to cram in as many as the rhythm allows, for clarity's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: When Words Collide | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

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