The song that started it all for me, “Leather”, especially caught my attention first by its lyrics.  She seems so attention starved by her significant other.  It is a highly sexual song, as the title suggests.  I love the bridge that leads into the key change (it sounds so vaudeville stripper!).  Although not very easy to relate to, her words suggest helplessness and rejection, those which are universal. 

     Last, but not least, “Little Earthquakes”, the title song.  This song laments the various arguments, frustrations, and not speaking one’s mind in a dilapidated relationship.  Notice right off the bat, it is not one huge destructive earthquake, but rather the small but many over time that collect internally for her.  It is beautifully melancholy as one would feel under these circumstances.  Her ability to match key signatures to conjure up her emotions, and then project them onto others…it is truly amazing, and why I love her work so dearly. 

     I turn this CD on when I am frustrated after a long day, when I want to relax in a hot bubble bath, or in the car on a long trip to calm me.   This album is so personal with her painful experiences and feelings, that it also becomes personal to me when I attempt to play her music.  Her voice, although at times harsh, is one of the most soothing I have came across in my musical experience.