i am an MILF, don't you forget

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have spent all day mooching around the house while recovering from Fabric-induced ruin which means that it is time for a NEW POP VIDEO.

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Tori Amos Big Wheel
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I love how obvious it is that Tori Amos's latest babblings about archetypes of femininity are just an excuse for her dress up in pretty frocks and wear ugly wigs and look fabulous. The press release for her album is a treat, by the way - those five Toris you see in the video are five distinct characters who are credited separately for their songs (and who all have secret blogs hidden on the internet! which Tori nuts are encouraged to hunt for!), there is much talk of "she was Demeter and Dionysus, so she was really holding and channelling the male" &c &c.

Anyway what actually matters is that this single is actually very good, witty rockabilly with a couple of killer lines (one of which got it banned from some US radio stations! Are you really not allowed to say "MILF"?), and hella catchy (surprising from a woman who hasn't written anything approximating to a melody in, ooh, getting on eight years now).

Video = weird stop-motion low-budget thing, and Tori has grown into her Botox :D

Comments

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

Hurrah, I do love it when singers go all dissociative. Slim Shady, Ziggy, Thin White Duke... Mind you, getting 5 at once is a bit greedy?

Not a bad song tho.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I was about to say, it doesn't sound so up herself when you put it like that, all the other mainstream acts who've done it. Then I read the press release again. The characters are:

"Isabel (HisTORIcal), a photographer, is a reflection of Artemis and is the most outwardly political of the bunch.

Then there's Clyde (CliTORIdes, who draws from Persephone. She wears her emotional wounds on her sleeve, but remains idealistic.

Pip (ExpiraTORIal), who represents Athena, swaggers her way through her tracks. 'I really love her energy and her casual approach to rubber,' says Amos.

Santa (SanaTORIum) relates to Aphrodite and is the sensualist of the quintet.

And there's Tori (TerraTORIes), who was the hardest character for Amos to get her head around. 'She was Demeter and Dionysus, so she was really holding and channelling the male, as well as Demeter, who was the mother, the creator of this,' explains ("explains") Amos."

Apparently all five will be going on tour to promote the album and will sing together on stage (I presume this means that Tori has discovered the joys of the COSTUME CHANGE).

[glamwhorebunni.livejournal.com]

That may be a tad pretentious, yes.

Just a teeny bit. Bless.


I'm hoping she does it by leaping around the stage, and has conversations with herself in a Gollum/Smeagol way...

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

She did the same thing for the covers album, if I remember correctly. (Or was it...shit, my Tori memory is gone. One of the albums around that period anyway.) But good point about it just being an excuse to dress up!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for that she covered each male-written song from a female perspective. And then dressed up as each one. And then got her writer mate Neil Gaiman to write a short story for each one. One of the female perspectives turned out to be twins into "economic espionage" (that one for Neil Young's 'Heart Of Gold'). Oh Tori you are mental in an AWESOME way.