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

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

I am a great big political goth, so I have to admit that essentially Tori Amos hitting milk bottles with bananas would probably be hailed as genius by me. On the other hand, that does well nark me that they're releasing 'Bouncing Off Clouds' first here, it is clearly a second single and won't have anything like the same impact without 'Big Wheel' before it.

I agree about the politics, with the exception of 'Yo George,' which makes me cringe a bit in a 'When The President Talks To God' way.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Mmm, I think I would accept Tori hitting milk bottles with bananas, definitely (I mean one of my favourite songs by her is her reading out the plants in her garden), but the aimless hookless bloodless MOR bollocks of the last album was too much for me.

Maybe they think 'Big Wheel' is too American, ie country, for Europe.