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Vegeta
posted on 07-04-2001 @ 9:34 AM      
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Registered: Oct. 00
I've been readin articles about Tori Amos covering a bunch of "misogynist" songs. She says that if people hear the words of men coming from a woman's mouth, then people will see how horrible or wrong they are.

One of these songs is Bonny and Clyde '97 on Eminem's Slim Shady LP. Now if you listen to not only this song, but all of the songs on the album, you have to realize that eminem has serious tracks (toards the end, and somewhere in the middle) and trackas that MUST NOT be taken seriously. Bonny and Clyde '97 is one fo these songs, and if you're dancing to this song, like Amos claims, then you have a serious mental problem.

I think that kids are influenced by their favorite artists, but if there are kids who think that the words spoken on a cd are to be believed completely, then you will either find a child with parents who don't care about them enough to give them a goddamn book once in a while or a child with serious mental defects.

I should have put htis in the F-U section, but it fits in the music section better. I don't refer to any woman as bitch or whore in any serious term, but Tori Amos is seriously pissing me off. I hope her album goes wood and N*synch fans burn and efigy of her live on TRL.

If she wanted to stop men from writing controversial lyrics, maybe she should spend some money getting on education so that the artists of the future have something more meaningful to sing about.


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and i am apologizing now for the spelling errors, its 34 am and im drunk, so no time for spell check! Gotcha, SLASH i'll mmmm momo all i want! and you cant stop me!		posted on 07-04-2001 @ 11:15 AM      
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Registered: Oct. 00
the artical for those who haven't heard about it:
quote:

Tori Amos Covers Eminem, Slayer on Strange Little Girls

In an attempt to examine sexual politics, Amos

records 12 songs written by men for LP. What if

the real Slim Shady were actually a woman rapping

about murdering her spouse and getting their

toddler's assistance in dumping the body in Lake

Michigan?Tori Amos will demonstrate that scenario

by covering Eminem's horror-core jingle "97'

Bonnie & Clyde" on her sixth album, Strange

Little Girls. In an innovative attempt to examine

sexual politics and identity, Amos recorded 12

songs written by men to show the difference in

view when they're performed by a woman. The

album, due September 18, features her takes on

songs by the Velvet Underground, the Beatles,

Neil Young, Slayer, Depeche Mode and the Boomtown
Rats.

Amos, who recorded the disc in Cornwall, England,

wanted the album to address violence and identity

in terms of how men see women and

themselves. "I've always found it fascinating how

men say things and how women hear them," she said

in a press release from Atlantic Records. "Words

can wound and words can heal, and both are

included on the album."When she first heard "97'

Bonnie & Clyde," "the scariest thing was ... the

realization that people are getting into the

music and grooving along to a song about a man

who is butchering his wife," Amos said. "So half

the world is dancing to this, oblivious, with

blood on their sneakers. But when you talk about

killing your wife, you don't get to control whom

she becomes friends with after she's dead. She

had to have a voice."The singer/songwriter

adopted a character for every song, and she's

photographed in each persona for the album

jacket. The LP's first single, "Strange Little

Girl" — written by the Stranglers and originally

released in 1982 — will arrive at radio in mid-

August.Amos has lined up a tour to kick off in

Miami on September 28 and run through November 21

in San Francisco. She will perform alone at her

keyboards during the outing, marking the first

time she's toured without backing musicians since

1994. Strange Little Girls will include the

following tracks, according to Amos' Atlantic

publicist:
"New Age" (The Velvet Underground)
"97' Bonnie & Clyde" (Eminem)
"Strange Little Girl" (The Stranglers)
"Enjoy the Silence" (Depeche Mode)
"Rattlesnakes" (Lloyd Cole & the Commotions)
"I'm Not in Love" (10cc)
"Time" (Tom Waits)
"Heart of Gold" (Neil Young)
"I Don't Like Mondays" (The Boomtown Rats)
"Raining Blood" (Slayer)
"Real Men" (Joe Jackson)
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (The Beatles)

— Teri vanHorn


quote:
If she wanted to stop men from writing controversial lyrics, maybe she should spend some money getting on education so that the artists of the future have something more meaningful to sing about.


that is just your opinion about Tori, but i would like to let you know that she is an extremely intelligent woman. She started studying music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (a prestigious music school in Baltimore) at age 5. Tori is also the co-founder or R.A.I.N.N, Rape Abuse & Incest National Network, which has helped millions of people to date. All in all, Tori music has touched millions and has helped so many people in more ways then i can count. So before you call a woman ignorant because you don't agree with what she has to say, try learning a few more facts about her before you state your opinion. I am not asking you to like her music, or what she stands for, but to at least have a bit or respect for all the good she has done.



i'm singing now because my tear ducts are too tired and my brain is disconnected but my heart is wired.. i make such a good statistic someone should study me now somebody's got to be interested in how i feel just 'cause i'm here and i'm real...



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