Re: Tori
※ 引述《cathychao (害怕...)》之銘言：
: 之前在某本搖滾書籍上看到Tori的生平簡介，
: 記得她曾領導過美國兩性平權的遊行會，
: 最主要的原因好像是以前曾遭受到性侵害。
: 記得不是太清楚，有人可以講的再詳細一點嗎？
作者 elton 看板 ToriAmos
標題 comments and interpretations
時間 Tue Feb 27 16:39:59 2001
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There's a song by you that is like a nightmare from beginning to
end.
"Me and a Gun.
Yes. A rape from the perspective of a victim. But in this song the
nightmare isn't just a moment, it's the whole story.
"A moment in my life. [pause] People react very differently to it.
I played it for a male friend who thought rape too serious a
subject to make into a song.
"Could it be that your friend simply felt uncomfortable? In my
experience women react very differently to this song. But it's
interesting what you're saying, because my father loves this song -
although my parents are very Victorian and very religious. My father
found it was simply necessary to say what rape means. It's a frontal
assault - not only on your body, but on your soul."
...You sing Me and a Gun a capella. Was there ever an
instrumental arrangement?
"No, I composed it a capella and it's stayed that way."
From "Screams and Whispers", Keyboards (Germany), June 1992,
by Albrecht Piltz.
"I wouldn't talk to you about Me and a Gun. As far as I was
concerned, it didn't exist. And if you wanted to talk to me about my
Christian guilt, I would tell you I had none."
From "Tori Tori Tori!", Keyboard Magazine, September 1992 by Greg Rule.
"Someone asked me to do this one tonight ... and, well, I used to do
this one a lot, but sometimes you stop singing songs for a reason and
this is one of them, but we'll see..."
From the Los Angeles concert, September 22, 1998.
A person yelled out, "Lose the song" (in ref to MAAG).. At first, Tori
responded by singing "me and a gun, and a man-or-a-woman on my
back..." Tori then talked, "I can't believe you'd come to one of my
shows and expect that I wouldn't play this song." Tori continued
singing.
After someone in the audience said "she's a lizard" in reference to the
woman who had yelled out the comment , Tori stopped singing and
said, "No, she's just uncomfortable. I understand that, because I used
to be too."
From the Philadelphila concert, May 2, 1996.
"I went to see Thelma & Louise, alone, on a whim, and my life
changed. When Susan Sarandon killed the would-be rapist, I
breathed for the first time in seven years." (Two hours later she wrote
Me and a Gun.)
"Me and a Gun has been my flashlight; the thing that has taken me by
the hand and led me down a very, very, very long recovery path."
From Quote of the Day; unsourced.
"The strength it takes to get up and sing that song every night is more
than I ever imagined."
From Addicted to Noise, March 1997.
"In other songs a rape - if there's even sung about it - gets a happy
ending. In America some radio stations didn't want to play Me and a
Gun because of 'too feministic' and 'too realistic'. I sing: 'Yes, I wore
a slinky red thing. Does that mean I should spread for you?' That's the
way it is, yes? 'But mister judge, she was hitchhiking in a mini-skirt!'
Bullshit!"
From "The Devirginizing of Tori Amos', Nieuwe Revu (Holland),
February 1994, by Serge Simonart..
"If you're gonna tell a story, you have to grow into the head of the
rapist as well as the raped."
From the Chicago Sun Times, July 17 1998.
"Which one is this? What is she doing? Is this new?"
Newbies at the Los Angeles concert, September 22, 1998, sitting behind Leigh
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