There's no pomp and circumstance. I play music and talk to the audience, which is more of a folk tradition. So in her music, or during live performance, she may offer commentary on women in the workplace, heroin addiction, or the tyranny of the commercial music industry. You know, the world today is very different than it was even 10 years ago in terms of corporation permeation of our lives. There are fast food restaurants everywhere.
Every place tastes the same.
If society has become more corporate and homogenized over the years. When DiFranco began performing, the music industry was dominated by men, something the folksinger occasionally takes a poke at in her songs. Today, women are more of a presence. People are much more used to hearing chick singers on the radio. There's art irony to it because women have always played music.