The Resume

(September 23, 1970- )
Albums include 'So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter,' 'Revelling/Reckoning,' 'Swing Set,' 'To the Teeth,' 'Fellow Workers,' 'Not a Pretty Girl,' 'Imperfectly' and 'Ani Difranco'
Created Righteous Babe Records

Why she might be annoying:

She lets her armpit hair grow.
Many feel that her music has suffered throughout her more recent albums.
She moved out of her mother's house when she was fifteen.
She often writes bitter lyrics.
She forces her political opinions on her audience by writing them into most of her songs.
She has a symbol tattoo on her chest as part of necklace
She has a nose piercing.

Why she might not be annoying:

She contributed to a song on a rapper's debut album (Corey Parker).
She has a massive college following.
She married her sound engineer.
She played Beatles tunes in a bar when she was nine.
On average, she releases more than an album per year.
She had relationships with other women.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• AOL's 20 Women Who Rock [2007] (Ranked: 14)
• B.C. or A.D.
• Bisexuals
• Burt Bacharach Wrote My Song
• Entertainers Loved by Lesbians
• Fag Hags [Women Loved by Gay Men]
• Folk Singers
• Furmales - Hairy Women
• Goat Vocalists
• Guest Voices on King of the Hill
• I am an Atheist
• I am From Buffalo, NY
• I Covered a Prince Song
• I Married in 1998
• I Recorded ‘Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’
• I Sing About New York
• In Town for the Democratic National Convention [2008 - Denver]
• Jewish Rockers
• Look at Me, I Got a Microphone
• Look at Me, I Got My Hands Up
• Look at My Guitar
• Look at My Inappropriate Body Hair
• Musicians You Should Fear
• My Song is on Rhino's 'Whatever: The 90's Pop & Culture Box'
• Piercings [A-K]
• Pissed off Chicks
• Pitchfork Media's 20 Worst Album Covers of 2007 [Performers]
• Pizza Bagels [Italian Jews]
• Profiles 5501-5750 (Ranked: 5602)
• Rock Chicks
• USA Today Pop Candy's 100 People of the Year [2001] (Ranked: 48)
• VH-1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock [July 1999] (Ranked: 90)
• Vocalists Who Sing Anti-War Songs

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 70.59% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 55 Votes: 58.18% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 59 Votes: 64.41% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 24 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 68 Votes: 64.71% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 65 Votes: 50.77% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 74 Votes: 64.86% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 106 Votes: 62.26% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 206 Votes: 69.42% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 375 Votes: 54.93% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 660 Votes: 46.06% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 1258 Votes: 67.81% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1128 Votes: 42.46% Annoying