In a culture that is still primitive, paranoid, competitive, and survivalistic, vulnerability isn't something one arrives at by accident. People have to work very hard to get there... and =stay= there. "Flavors" may well be Al's most vulnerable album (especially in the bonus tracks), even though she herself set the standards for lyric vulnerability years ago and has kept raising the bar since then.
In "IPOTVM," she's simply giving to kudos to males who've put their boats out against the cultural currents as she has done, even if if we will never see all the chicken scratch in those journals she's filled over the years. At least we get the =flavor= of them. For those who really want to dig into this, try Pia Mellody's three books on codependence, romance addiction and intimacy.
In a culture that is still primitive, paranoid, competitive, and survivalistic, vulnerability isn't something one arrives at by accident. People have to work very hard to get there... and =stay= there. "Flavors" may well be Al's most vulnerable album (especially in the bonus tracks), even though she herself set the standards for lyric vulnerability years ago and has kept raising the bar since then.
In "IPOTVM," she's simply giving to kudos to males who've put their boats out against the cultural currents as she has done, even if if we will never see all the chicken scratch in those journals she's filled over the years. At least we get the =flavor= of them. For those who really want to dig into this, try Pia Mellody's three books on codependence, romance addiction and intimacy.