From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #113 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 Thursday, July 12 2001 Volume 06 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Bonnie & Clyde-Empathy for Her Husband [VioletLilith@aol.com] Re: Tori mention in Neil's new book [Jennifer Mitts Cypres ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:56:48 EDT From: VioletLilith@aol.com Subject: Re: Bonnie & Clyde-Empathy for Her Husband In a message dated 07/07/2001 1:14:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ToRiGLosS@aol.com writes: << How can ANYTHING be conveyed if, as the Time Magazine article says, she changed NONE of the lyrics.. Does this seem strange to anyone else? >> my boyfriend and i wondered the same thing. but, i guess tone and atmosphere are everything. anyway, we all know she can! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:59:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Jennifer Mitts Cypres Subject: Re: Tori mention in Neil's new book Totally cool. "Mrs. Hawley" I just love that. Tori has just the two houses, right? So I guess while she's in one, she lets someone else live in the other as a favor, if they need to get away. How sweet. Wonder if she'd let me stay... haha - -jen ===== "Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease." - -President George W. Bush, at a news conference in Europe, June 2001 Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:58:48 -0400 From: the other white meat Subject: slg spin article don't think i've seen this article posted here, so just for completeness' sake. nothing really new, but the skeptical coverage is kind of amusing.... woj Tori Amos is Strange and Little By Beth Wawerna Tell me something I didn't know. Well, she's also got a new record coming out soon, her sixth and the follow-up to 1999's double-assault, To Venus And Back. It's called Strange Little Girls (due out Sept. 18) and it is not an LP of original material, as they say. No, this is a 12-song album of covers. And there's a "concept" to it. I will do my best to explain it. Sigh. Ok, all the songs that appear on the record were written by members of the male species. Males like Eminem, Neil Young, the Stranglers, Lou Reed, Depeche Mode, Joe Jackson, and, uh, Slayer. But on the record, Tori sings them, and makes them decidedly her own-"darkly, gently, and in an uncompromising fashion." Basically, Tori says she wanted to talk about men and their attitudes towards themselves and women, as well as issues like violence and identity, so she felt there was no better way to do so than by taking the words directly from mouths of the men who write them. But the songs on the record are told through the eyes of 13 women (please note: a set of twins appears). Huh? Well, yeah. Um... "Each woman approached me and said, 'I have a point of view on this song, that you may want to know, that may change how you hear its meaning,'" explained Tori in a statement regarding the album. "I've always found it fascinating how men say things and how women hear them." To further bolster the individual identities of each of the women, photographer Thomas Schenk shot Tori in the character of each of the women. I'm assuming this will be a part of the "album art." Among the songs that Tori performs on the album are the Stranglers' "Strange Little Girl" (the first single, due to radio in mid-August), Eminem's "'97 Bonnie & Clyde," Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence," the Beatles' "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," Tom Waits's "Time," and so much more. After the album's release, Tori is set to hit the road for a U.S. tour, with nothing but her keyboard and her moxie along for the ride, beginning Sept. 28 in Miami, and wrapping up Nov. 21 in San Francisco. This will be Tori's first solo run since 1994. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #113 *************************************