Lex ([info]alexmacpherson) wrote in [info]poptimists,
@ 2007-04-29 19:38:00
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i am an MILF, don't you forget
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.



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

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[info]jeff_worrell
2007-04-29 07:04 pm UTC (link)
I read or heard on the radio the other day an interview about some mainstream thing that's coming out in the States this summer (a movie possibly?) called MILF. The interviewee (young, female, I wish I could remember who it was - I sure ain't gonna try googling it) was protesting that "there are a lot of meanings" of the term, "and this is ours". LOL. The F stood for something really lame, but again I can't remember what it was.

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[info]mippy
2007-04-29 08:00 pm UTC (link)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Who was that R+B guy who brought out a song called 'Wifey'?

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[info]glamwhorebunni
2007-04-29 07:50 pm UTC (link)
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.

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[info]alexmacpherson
2007-04-29 08:09 pm UTC (link)
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).

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[info]glamwhorebunni
2007-04-29 08:42 pm UTC (link)
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...

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[info]dickmalone
2007-04-30 02:36 pm UTC (link)
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!

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[info]alexmacpherson
2007-05-01 06:25 am UTC (link)
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.

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What on earth was I doing with that MILF
[info]mippy
2007-04-29 07:58 pm UTC (link)
I haven;t caught up with her since that something In The 80s record, which makes me feel slightly guilty as there was one point when Under The Pink meant a lot to me. But sigh, this PC is not up to video.

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[info]piratemoggy
2007-04-29 08:02 pm UTC (link)
I prefer 'Bouncing Off Clouds,' which I currently have a mild obsession with but this is also very very good.

I am very excited about this new album. VERY excited.

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[info]piratemoggy
2007-04-29 08:11 pm UTC (link)
Also, does anyone know what program I need to put on the 'Allow' list on McAffee's fascist firewall idiocy in order to be able to see that? Damn them.

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[info]alexmacpherson
2007-04-29 08:16 pm UTC (link)
it's on yahoo too if that helps...not youtube though.

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[info]alexmacpherson
2007-04-29 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Yeah that's good too (apparently will be the first single in Europe which I think is a MISTAKE) - only got album yesterday so haven't taken it all in yet. First impression - it's not a "return to form" but there is some really really good stuff on it. Far too long obv (23 tracks!) - I have a feeling that all the songs by themselves are good but the cumulative effect is v wearing. Not as adventurous sonically as I'd hoped. Reminds me a lot of David Bowie in places (but in a good way). She pulls off the anti-war theme which is a surprise given how clunkily she's handled political themes recently. The interludes are all really awesome!

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[info]piratemoggy
2007-04-29 08:23 pm UTC (link)
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.

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[info]alexmacpherson
2007-04-29 08:42 pm UTC (link)
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.

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[info]anthonyeaston
2007-04-30 06:57 am UTC (link)
its not really rockabilly, sort of southern california really.

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[info]koganbot
2007-04-30 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Not being grabbed by the tune, really. I think if you like this there might be some actual country that you might actually like more (as country gals go ever more Sheryl and Jewel etc.)

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[info]alexmacpherson
2007-05-01 06:26 am UTC (link)
I think I like it because it's fake country, I like lots of stuff which is country-tinged but something about actual real country (except Dolly Parton) turns me off.

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