Identifies her primarily as a songwriter who’s not an interchangeable performer like competing young singers, as a carpetbagging code-switcher (contrasted with her not-that-wide vocal range, even), but with a distinct writing style that can be traced through all her works… see, I’m not the only one who notices that. It even mentions that some songs were clearly aimed towards an older generation and that she’s obviously absorbed some Jenny Lewis at some point.

Generally agree with the rest of the judgment – Red was the best album, but the second half (esp. the duets) is a drag you have to slog through – and it’s impressively thorough – the Christmas and iTunes Live From Soho albums, the Beautiful Eyes EP, even a bunch of special edition bonus tracks I’d never heard of before