The Righteous Babe not to perform on Letterman
Reported by yewknee
Righetous Babe Ani DiFranco was scheduled to play Letterman on Thursday (July 19th) but is not going to appear due to the Letterman producers asking her not to perform her song "Subdivision" from Revelling/Reckoning but instead asked she play "Heartbreak Even." The producers insisted the request was due to a wider appealing tempo, and not because "Subdivision" starts with the line 'White people are so scared of black people.' As expected, Ani DiFranco and her management team cancelled the appearance because well.. Ani DiFranco has never been one to bow down to the powers that be. Both World Wide Pants (Letterman's production company) and Ani DiFranco hope to someday reschedule with no conflicts.