Ani DiFranco Swan Dive

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  • čas přidán 27. 05. 2007
  • Trust -- Live at the 9:30 Club, Washington DC
    May 11-12, 2004
    (DVD 2004) running time: 1h 30m
    Buy it at www.righteousbabe.com or Amazon.com
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Komentáře • 155

  • @pegleg747
    @pegleg747 Před 14 lety +42

    Ani is one of those artists you won't listen to for a year and then you find an album under your bed...and she takes you back to that same powerful and scary place within yourself that you maybe forgot about, but never left you.
    She can articulate things most people can't even isolate. She's one in a million :)

  • @bl44rth
    @bl44rth Před 17 lety +24

    "I'm gonna pull out my tampon and just start splashing around"
    one of the best lines ever

  • @bicisnobombas
    @bicisnobombas Před 8 lety +84

    Almost 20 years later and I still get full-body chills and wheep from the sheer beauty of this song and what it expresses. That is truly art in its highest form.

  • @FirstNameLastName000
    @FirstNameLastName000 Před 5 lety +29

    Ani DiFranco's music means even more now to me in 2019 than it did in 2004, and in 2004 I thought I knew and felt everything.

    • @alethiamcgarvey282
      @alethiamcgarvey282 Před 3 lety +2

      I totally feel this comment. And I have a Righteous Babe tattoo on my arm. Got it the day I turned 18. I’m almost 40 now. My daughter and I now jam out to her music. It all comes full circle…

    • @sabrinaanirbas9034
      @sabrinaanirbas9034 Před rokem

      Feel ya..and now..how ya doing?

    • @diogesesmore9874
      @diogesesmore9874 Před rokem

      @@alethiamcgarvey282 glorious!!!!

    • @alethiamcgarvey282
      @alethiamcgarvey282 Před rokem

      @@sabrinaanirbas9034 I’m hanging in there. It’s been an effed up year. You doin ok dearest?

  • @summertizzime
    @summertizzime Před 13 lety +22

    I don't know who I'd be if I hadn't been introduced to Ani DiFranco those many years ago.

  • @amacleodbrydon
    @amacleodbrydon Před 10 lety +14

    Swan dive....this song sustained me when I was a new substitute school bus driver. I would crank it on the way home in my car after having completed the horror of another trip. THANK YOU ANI !!!!!!!!! I'm now a 12 year veteran.

  • @ThePopulation
    @ThePopulation Před 16 lety +8

    "I've got better things to do than survive"
    Sing it Ani.

  • @mistermut
    @mistermut Před 16 lety +11

    i love how its powerful and desperate at the same time. at least to me. "i just want to get my feet wet till i drown", it all sounds like honesty as well.

  • @1MoreNaturalDisaster
    @1MoreNaturalDisaster Před 4 lety +3

    Best performance of this song

  • @slowbaker
    @slowbaker Před 14 lety +2

    Every song is her best . . . because she's an evolution and she's been here for centuries.

  • @amyunderwood2470
    @amyunderwood2470 Před 4 lety +4

    “Just want to get my feet wet until I drown!!” is my favorite Ani lyric ever

  • @BradAllenTheWayFinders
    @BradAllenTheWayFinders Před 11 lety +5

    My hunny gave Ani a ride from Eugene to Portland back in 94' when she was just hitching around the west coast doing gigs.. Ani is the real deal. Completely real and honest to her musical mastery.. at the same time, cool as they come :)

  • @nix3460
    @nix3460 Před 9 lety +9

    How can anyone "thumbs down" this? Freaking awesome, Ani.

  • @robertschrader
    @robertschrader Před 16 lety +5

    This may be my favorite Ani song.

  • @charmainemiles4089
    @charmainemiles4089 Před rokem +2

    I live in Sydney Australia, and I flew to the cold coast for her concert in Brisbane, this was a concert I'll never forget she was like this performance all night from one start to finish, she bounced around ,changing only a few guitar, absolute incredible artist to see live.
    arni de franco is her music ,

  • @remenissions13
    @remenissions13 Před 16 lety +2

    She puts so much emotion into her songs.... I'm not her biggest fan, but her dedication and the honesty truly astound me still.. I can't say many artists out there are in any way similar to her, she doesn't just sing her songs, she FEELS them every time.

  • @hannahbee-qi8xu
    @hannahbee-qi8xu Před 3 měsíci +1

    Literally got chills. What an amazing artist 💖✌

  • @MAP3698
    @MAP3698 Před 3 lety +2

    Ani breathes fire and life and death and everything, everything into this song. So grateful to be here now 🔥

  • @Pelesfyre
    @Pelesfyre Před 15 lety +3

    "gonna go ahead and go boldly
    cause a lil bird told me
    that jumping is easy,
    falling is fun,
    right up until you hit the sidewalk
    shivering and stunned."
    ani's a genius.

  • @sandragayle9
    @sandragayle9 Před 16 lety +3

    I have seen Ani live several times, and she is so awesome, that no matter how many times you see her, it is never enough because of how much she evolves... I love this woman!

  • @xtymps
    @xtymps Před 13 lety +3

    this is one of the best ani performances- hell, one of the best performances ever, of all time. you can hear the fucking pain oozing out of her voice, her words. i think ani might have been going through a hard time personally here.

  • @katiekatt01
    @katiekatt01 Před 16 lety +1

    She is like that through the whole show! She is a singer songwriter!!!

  • @J2bliss
    @J2bliss Před 4 lety +2

    Wow. Its true everything does get better with age. This song has always reached out to me, spoken to me (not-so-silently), and now so many years later the message is even stronger. Thank you for creating this amazing anthem.

  • @daisybaldwin6979
    @daisybaldwin6979 Před 4 lety +2

    Ani is my addiction... I love her and yet I have never met her... The way she writes is in depth and bold and I can picture it all... I love the metaphors😁❤️ she's got the most bold beauty I've ever heard... The first time I heard her it was the song not angry anymore off her up up up album.. only I didn't know that or her name even. I was getting a ride and that song opened me up.. I bawled it was the most beautiful song I had ever heard. Been on the look out ever since. Bought 4 albums before I found that song BTW

  • @pppatsy
    @pppatsy Před 12 lety +5

    Man I love love love love this live version. She plays to the crowd for a lot of it but then there is part where it is just her and the song and there's a quiet part that becomes bigger than her dreads ('Im cradling the heaviest part of me'), makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. It is a beautiful song. She is an incredible guitarist & performer & writer.

  • @sublime90
    @sublime90 Před 15 lety +2

    i love this song! one ani's best right here

  • @doraeliaruiz1636
    @doraeliaruiz1636 Před 4 lety +2

    I am not exaggerating when I say this song literally not only saved, but made my life. I listened to this every night before bed and every morning in HS, and this song gave me the courage to apply to Brown and I even put in my essay: “I don’t care if they eat me alive, I’ve got better things to do than survive.” I got in with a full ride, fell madly in love w a girl at another Ivy school who also put that same quote in her essay. We were both from dirt poor backgrounds and both probably had more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than us both getting full rides to our dream school, let alone then finding one another .... but all the chance that we needed was one in a million ❤️💜 I think that I’m blessed

    • @Isewein
      @Isewein Před 7 měsíci

      That's an amazing story. Thank you for sharing.

  • @maudy_music
    @maudy_music Před 15 lety +2

    that was the coolest performance of swan dive i've seen so far. amazing. especially the last bit.

  • @KannaM
    @KannaM Před 10 lety +16

    'cuz i don't care if they eat me alive
    i've got better thing to do than survive...

  • @SWEETWILLKINGSTON
    @SWEETWILLKINGSTON Před 16 lety

    There are so many good one liners in this song. The tampon line, the line about the ship pitching and heaving, and a little too much to drink. I'll go on and on if I have too......just wanna get my feet wet, until I drown....

  • @youshouldve
    @youshouldve Před 14 lety +2

    i just heard of her a few weeks ago from my cousin.
    this is amazing.
    i have really, really never heard anything like this before.

  • @rainbowsonmyeyeballs8771
    @rainbowsonmyeyeballs8771 Před 9 lety +4

    love the way this song starts.

  • @len4evaeva
    @len4evaeva Před 16 lety +2

    i was there! she was amazing!

  • @notwister1
    @notwister1 Před 8 lety +19

    man, is this guitar on fire or is it on fire? I think it´s on fire.
    Really, how much more intense can you perform on stage than Ani here?
    She has energy galore....

    • @henrycodm896
      @henrycodm896 Před 7 lety

      notwister1 That's Ani. She does this EVERY performance.

  • @vcid1285
    @vcid1285 Před 15 lety +1

    utterly amazing. i can listen to this version over and over. the voice, the guitar, the emotion -- i can't help but be moved by this performance.

  • @32Flavors
    @32Flavors Před 10 lety +1

    The most beautiful person in the world right here people.

  • @CariElswickcastaneda
    @CariElswickcastaneda Před 14 lety

    ani defranco is the bestttttttttttttttttt ever

  • @psykomystro
    @psykomystro Před 13 lety +3

    Now that's cutting edge artistry!!! To hell with playing it safe and being trendy. You're hot because you make what's hot not following some mindless trend. I dig it!!!

  • @32Flavors
    @32Flavors Před 10 lety +3

    Darling, you must see her in concert!! oh you must!!! You will leave feeling touched.

    • @raeannecarter566
      @raeannecarter566 Před 3 lety

      I have seen literally HUNDREDS of live performances, and to this day Ani is still top 3. To be in an audience of hundreds and feel like its just you and her is an experience one never forgets.

  • @72marshflower15
    @72marshflower15 Před 11 lety +1

    She is surely one of my top 10 if not top 5... Luv you Ani...

  • @angyp7414
    @angyp7414 Před 9 lety +6

    i've got a vision of blue sky and dry land

  • @saintdameon
    @saintdameon Před 15 lety +6

    it's a shame she doesn't make albums anymore like the ones she made in the mid-90's.

    • @elmoblatch9787
      @elmoblatch9787 Před rokem

      Revolutionary Love was a fantastic album released around 2021 or so.

    • @Neonlike0
      @Neonlike0 Před rokem

      agreed - she is still amazing tho

  • @ShadyBooty
    @ShadyBooty Před rokem

    What a REAL woman acts and looks like!
    🔥 ♀️

  • @mellowishfolk
    @mellowishfolk Před 17 lety +2

    hands down best version of swan dive

    • @Okayplaya
      @Okayplaya Před rokem

      It should be on all steaming platforms.

  • @mimuchedad
    @mimuchedad Před 13 lety +1

    que se puede decirrr, ella es unica,su manera de tocar,y sus letras,me encanta como consigue trasmitr la misma cancion , una gran tristeza,y como una gran alegria,es genial para cada estado de animo,no se que seria de mi sin conocerla.siempre me eriza la piel

  • @clive3940
    @clive3940 Před 3 lety +2

    I'm cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hands
    Feels like a little baby bird
    Fallen from the nest
    I think that your body is something I understand
    I think that I'm happy
    I think that I'm blessed
    But I've had a lack of inhibition
    I've had a loss of perspective
    I've had a little bit to drink
    And it's making me think
    That I can jump ship and swim
    That the ocean will hold me
    That there's got to be more
    Than this boat I'm in
    They can call me crazy if I fall
    All the chance I need
    Is one-in-a-million
    And they can call me brilliant
    If I succeed
    Gravity is nothing to me
    I'm moving at the speed of sound
    I'm just gonna get my feet wet
    Until I drown
    I teeter between tired
    And really, really tired
    I'm wiped out and I'm wired
    But I guess that's just as well
    'Cause I've built my own empire
    Out of car tires and chicken wire
    And now I'm queen of my own compost heap
    And I'm getting used to the smell
    I've had a lack of information
    I've had a little revelation
    I'm climbing up on the railing
    Trying not to look down
    I'm going to do my best swan dive
    Into shark infested waters
    I'm going to pull out my tampon
    And start splashing around
    'Cause I don't care if they eat me alive
    I've got better things to do than survive
    I've got the memory of your warm skin in my hands
    And I've got a vision of blue sky and warm land
    I'm cradling the hardest, heaviest part of me in my hands
    The ship is pitching and heaving
    Our limbs are bobbing and weaving
    I think this is something I understand
    I think I need a couple vaccinations
    For my far-away vacation
    I'm gonna go ahead and go boldly
    'Cause a little bird told me
    That jumping is easy
    And falling is fun
    Right up until you hit the sidewalk
    Shivering and stunned
    They can call me crazy if I fall
    All the chance I need
    Is one-in-a-million
    And they cal call me brilliant
    If I succeed
    Gravity is nothing to me
    I'm moving at the speed of sound
    I'm just going to get my feet wet
    Until I drown
    Source: LyricFind
    Songwriters: Ani Difranco
    Swan Dive lyrics © A Side Music LLC D/B/A Modern Works Music Publishing

  • @TheAxiomChronos
    @TheAxiomChronos Před 8 lety +1

    I and everyone I have ever loved loves you...bravo to you Ani. you are Magnificent
    to behold.

  • @elmoblatch9787
    @elmoblatch9787 Před rokem

    Just read her autobiography and I seem to recall that 2007 was not a good year for her emotionally. You can't see that on stage, because she is on fire.

  • @kieragoetz2014
    @kieragoetz2014 Před 3 lety

    Thank you Love!

  • @TheGabeSmithDebacle
    @TheGabeSmithDebacle Před 16 lety

    First time I ever saw Ani play this tune was when she opened for Bob Dylan at Blossom. (Cleveland/Akron) When she mentioned pulling out her tampon, the jock-y security guy separating the lawn from the the pavilion turned around to us and asked "what did she just say . . .?"

  • @Sadbigbirddd
    @Sadbigbirddd Před 16 lety +1

    perfection at its finest.

  • @apgaer
    @apgaer Před 12 lety +1

    get to see her live tonight. i know my life won't be the same after it.

  • @cellofreek
    @cellofreek Před 11 lety

    she is such an amazing pearson i love the way that you can tell that she just loves to be on the stage and the way that it comes to her with such ez and grace, and shes not afraid to bee goofy:)

  • @nicolev.4979
    @nicolev.4979 Před 11 lety +1

    I

  • @johnalexion
    @johnalexion Před 10 lety +3

    Raw grit, courage chilling!

  • @Sadbigbirddd
    @Sadbigbirddd Před 16 lety

    everytime i watch this, it amazes me more

  • @NickGibbsmusic
    @NickGibbsmusic Před 15 lety

    Little Plastic Castle. My god. WHAT A RECOOOOOOOORD!!!

  • @1andoneis3
    @1andoneis3 Před 16 lety

    nice....she sounds great

  • @cloudblood84
    @cloudblood84 Před 15 lety

    i love this dvd. ani rules my world

  • @thebangkokconnection4080

    Well shot video.

  • @StargazerLeia3636
    @StargazerLeia3636 Před 11 lety +1

    I respect thought provoking comments. Luv ya more

  • @anyfntimesweetheart
    @anyfntimesweetheart Před 13 lety +2

    this album saved my life, not in an i was about to commit suicide kind of way, but in a hey someone else gets it too kind of way. it changed me.

  • @INTJ24
    @INTJ24 Před 16 lety

    damn !!!!
    that was unbridled passion at its zenith

  • @gumsguey
    @gumsguey Před 16 lety +1

    I am so in love with her.

  • @krazykatie2006
    @krazykatie2006 Před 16 lety

    Ah.. one of the perks of living in Europe: I've seen Ani in concert half a dozen times, most of which from the front row.
    She's simply amazing.
    She f***s up the lyrics in this one quite a bit, but it only adds to the charm. :)

  • @Irishguy20008
    @Irishguy20008 Před 15 lety

    Awesome live and original.

  • @Sadbigbirddd
    @Sadbigbirddd Před 16 lety

    one of the only people who almost sounds better live.

  • @shannonalise82
    @shannonalise82 Před 16 lety

    no words. just absolutely no words. Ani, Ani, Ani, thank you.

  • @lunarlove77
    @lunarlove77 Před 14 lety

    well said pegleg...couldn't of put it better.

  • @lsjmixedmedia
    @lsjmixedmedia Před 12 lety

    The epitome of a women's strength summed up in 6 minutes! I dare anyone to challenge that! Ani...

  • @serm3378
    @serm3378 Před 12 lety

    Great song. Bad ass, beautiful person.

  • @Doyalwcheese
    @Doyalwcheese Před 12 lety

    someday ill meet this girl again... once it happens, ill be as famous she is

  • @stacy2070
    @stacy2070 Před 5 lety

    OMG SO BEAUTIFUL...I've been here. And I failed. Get out at the time girls of this song if you can. It only goes down from here. Time and age passes and you will not fix it.

  • @TheRecoveringCreative
    @TheRecoveringCreative Před 13 lety

    @jarvez1000
    I agree with you....yes she is articulate and expresses herself in a very individual way...But my Goodness!!! Does everyone overlook what an amazing guitarist she is? She has amazing skill and has a style all her own. I'm glad I was a teenager learning guitar when this album came out! As a female it inspired me to experiment and love the guitar even more. It still does.

  • @tolovesophia
    @tolovesophia Před 14 lety

    Wow.

  • @Doyalwcheese
    @Doyalwcheese Před 12 lety

    Haramitayso ani d, haramitayso forever, 4 you. "paris the orange card" was and is my favtorite writting ive ever done. hope you all read it some day

  • @JQevidentself
    @JQevidentself Před 11 lety

    My #1 ♥

  • @TysonGersh
    @TysonGersh Před 12 lety

    Couldn't have said it better myself

  • @Doyalwcheese
    @Doyalwcheese Před 13 lety

    Amazing

  • @Okayplaya
    @Okayplaya Před rokem

    Listen. This version better be on the 25th anniversary remastered release. IJS.

  • @cloudblood84
    @cloudblood84 Před 17 lety

    aniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

  • @Mudaseki
    @Mudaseki Před 15 lety +1

    Fucking amazing...pure epic.

  • @henrycodm896
    @henrycodm896 Před 7 lety

    21 now. Yep.

  • @jmills1215
    @jmills1215 Před 14 lety

    @pegleg747 amazing, beautiful summation. gave me chills.

  • @Kel0027
    @Kel0027 Před rokem

    2023/May11

  • @pdtrainu
    @pdtrainu Před 8 lety +3

    One beautifully RAW chick

  • @JessicaEdmiston
    @JessicaEdmiston Před 10 lety

    summertizzime & @EmmaBellaGirl928: me too. She was a significant role model in my teens and college years and she's still empowering me and teaching me new things. I'm a fairly quiet fan because not many of my friends listen to her, but she'll always be near and dear to my heart. EmmaBellaGirl928 - watch DiFranco shred - soul bare to the world - and know you can do it too.

  • @siulumlion
    @siulumlion Před 13 lety

    She should set this to music.

  • @SWEETWILLKINGSTON
    @SWEETWILLKINGSTON Před 14 lety

    @TheMelissaNakama and I (and probably Ani too) am/are so disappointed in you stopping.

  • @leticialp
    @leticialp Před 8 lety

  • @daviddeyoung9539
    @daviddeyoung9539 Před 9 měsíci

    if we absorb what we heard here....if we could take it in. well

  • @gilpaulsen
    @gilpaulsen Před 14 lety

    my ex wife introduced me to her in 98 and ihave yet to fall out of love with her.

  • @AmyGonzalez85
    @AmyGonzalez85 Před 14 lety

    @HastieBusiness I would really recommend Dilate and Little plastic castle.... also revelling and reckoning is a beautiful record. :) have fun.... ani difranco is a great artist... youll love discovering all her music.

  • @maudy_music
    @maudy_music Před 15 lety

    p.s. i love todd. todd's bass work is just so atmospheric and, for lack of a better phrase, amazing (L)

  • @daidenbrianaahern7787
    @daidenbrianaahern7787 Před 8 lety

    eye luv U

  • @Doyalwcheese
    @Doyalwcheese Před 12 lety

    shes singing about MY POEM

  • @featheredmusic
    @featheredmusic Před 15 lety

    awesome, really cool off beat rhythm

  • @DanNelson111
    @DanNelson111 Před 9 lety

    "UP4 Air"

  • @Doyalwcheese
    @Doyalwcheese Před 12 lety

    her guitar is saying, "paris the orange card"

  • @alliestop
    @alliestop Před 10 lety +5

    I love you?