From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #33 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Tuesday, February 2 1999 Volume 04 : Number 033 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: merman ["K. Fischer" ] Re: Album Covers/The Album Progression ["K. Fischer" Subject: Re: merman I originally thought that Merman was about Tori's miscarried child, but something she said at one of the shows made me think it is about someone else. The song is about a boy (as you can tell by the lyrics), yet Tori knew that her child was a girl. Perhaps the song is about another child in her life. I know Tori dedicated the song to the young man who was beaten to death in Wyoming at several shows on the tour, but during the Eau Claire show on Nov. 3rd just before playing "Merman" Tori said, "I wrote this about a special boy." This would mean that this boy was the person the song is for, not that she was dedicating it to someone at that specific performance. I have no idea who this boy is or was, and I don't know if anyone else does? The meaning of the song doesn't change at all for me when I heard that, but I thought it was an interesting point to bring up. Karin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:53:05 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Fischer" Subject: Re: Album Covers/The Album Progression With all the discussion and analysis about Tori's four albums being part of a cycle, I thought I would mention something. Just before FTCH came out, Tori said in an interview that the first 'three' albums were what she considered to be. She said that FTCH would be very different from the others, so maybe the cycle was completed with BFP rather than this last album. I saw FTCH as a symbol of Tori going in all different directions, as opposed to the other albums which were all very true to one artistic direction. By this I mean that the first three albums had songs which were all connected to each other by a thread that ran through the album, only one photographer was used for all the pictures, each album had it's own recognizable font, all the lyrics were shown in one particular format, etc. I also recall Tori saying that on FTCH the songs/"girls" were much more independent. The songs did not rely as heavily on each other, as on past albums. Perhaps because each one is more of its own separate story. So my interpretation is that a cycle ended with BFP, not with FTCH, which may be the first in an entirely new direction. Karin ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #33 ************************************