Found in the same phrase only in the land of Nico Muhly. Followed by “cut a bitch” no less.

“Anyway, the moral of the story here is that if one more interviewer asks me a question using either the word cross-over or something that implies A on one side and B on the other and me, like, estraddling the liminal space, I’m going to cut a bitch.”

Found here.
I don’t know how I feel about this, to be honest. Because that “crossover” that is being maligned and discounted here is something I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating and writing about and thinking about. I mean, I suppose now I know never to talk to Mr. Muhly about it, but perhaps I should also revise my thinking.

I love Indie music. I finally tried the Wordle Meme Ms. Mussel invented, and the resulting cluster, now residing on my desktop, is heavily skewed towards Indie Rock, with GIANT LETTERS revealing it in the centre of my screen. Now, part of this is because I haven’t gone through and classified much of my other music, but part of it is because I actually do possess a large quantity of Indie Rock and Pop and Folk music–arguments about “what *is* Indie anyway” aside. But I’m a classically trained musician, being trained classically in composition. I just finished studying Ravel to improve my orchestration techniques, my favourite oboe rep is by Handel and C.P.E. Bach, I sincerely *enjoy* analyzing music in a Schenkerian way (it is as relaxing as gouging!). But then there’s this pop tradition fixation I’ve got, too. I spend a lot of time finding ways to reconcile these two sides of my musical person–and I thought “Yes, people like Nico Muhly and Owen Pallett and Bell Orchestre–they do that for me.”

But maybe it’s not a boundary at all, not something that needs to be straddled. MAYBE it just seems that way because people usually only listen to one or the other–or don’t give them the same importance, anyway.

Although that sounds like a cultural boundary to me. I mean…as much as the music I write is inspired by all the music I listen to and I write it without consciously being like, “I am crossing boundaries with this music,” does that really mean it isn’t doing just that?
GENRES, GUYS. THEY HAVE EDGES. SOMETIMES THOSE EDGES ARE CROSSED.

On the other hand, I think perhaps what I’m doing is ignoring the divide between genres, and perhaps this is what Nico is getting at. The music I make perhaps doesn’t have to be one or the other, and maybe can exist in two places at the same time, and maybe if I…
I don’t know. I give up. I’ll just keep on doing what I do and hope I’m not the only bitch in the room when someone next asks Nico about straddling the liminal space.