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© St. Petersburg Times, published September 19, 2002
You've come a long way, Blake Baby
Juliana Hatfield has been a princess on the indie music scene since the late 1980s, when she was rocking out in Boston's Blake Babies. Since going solo in the early 1990s, Hatfield, 35, has won new fans with her pixie voice and faux tough-girl lyrics. (Though the Blake Babies reunited in 2000 for God Bless the Blake Babies.)
Hatfield sings about boys and eating disorders and sibling jealousy and how much supermodels and pop culture mess up impressionable young girls. She's like your older sister in college who comes home babbling about her women's studies courses during Thanksgiving dinner -- where you notice she doesn't eat.
Hatfield brings a decade and a half of originals, including standouts Everybody Loves Me and A Dame With a Rod, and, fans hope, some of those old Blake Babies tunes. Hatfield usually also picks judiciously from the pop canon for a few cover songs during her live set. I, for one, adore her versions of You Don't Own Me, Temptation Eyes and the Stooges' Loose.
Juliana Hatfield performs 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Orpheum, 1902 Avenida Republica de Cuba, Ybor City. $12. (813) 248-9500.