] "This is the kind of record I want to make, going ] forward," Ms. Merchant said. "I've been writing things ] that are much more obscure and sort of shelving them, ] thinking I can't get this past a corporate boardroom and ] I won't even try." ] ] "I understand that the larger labels are just interested ] in the projects that can generate the most capital for ] their quarter," she continued. "But I didn't want to ] subject the music to that kind of corporate boardroom and ] radio censorship. Why subject myself and the work that I ] do to that kind of environment when it really doesn't ] matter any more?" Just the first of many, I'm sure. Natalie Merchant, No Strings Attached |