| Tori Amos – Past The Mission Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Q. What does Tori think about his performance on "PtM"? A. TORI: With "Past the Mission," there's hope. "Past the mission, I smell the roses," and Trent sings on it. I wanted him to sing on it because of his energy. I love Trent's work. "Past the Mission" wanted him to sing on it. SUN: Parts of "Past the Mission" reminded me of "China." There seemed to be little bits of Elton John. TORI: We love Elton. "Past the Mission" has -- yeah, I can see that. George Porter Jr. from the Meters played on the whole record, and there's a lot of him on that, as much as Carlo Nuccio from the bottom end. I did the piano vocal first, but they played the track, which gave it that -- especially in the verses, that New Orleans kind of church meets Otis Redding meets, and they had a lot to do with bringing that out of the piece itself. Trent, obviously, it's nothing like he does in his work, which found an interesting choice, because it wasn't for him to sing on something that was his, why do that? "Past the Mission" is a love story. It's kind of a strange one in that it's me again, still trying to find pieces that I've left other places. It kind of breaks my heart when I hear him sing with me, "I once knew a hot girl." Where is she now? She can come back again. It' that same thing, where in "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission" and "Space Dog," where everything is reclaimable. from Interview /The Baltimore Sun |
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| Tori Amos – Past The Mission Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Yeah, he's singing." And this... When I was writing the song, the song said, "I think Trent Reznor would be really good to sing on me." And I said, "Yeah, I'm sure you do. But I don't really know if that's possible." And the song said, "It's possible. So just, like, make it happen." So I met him and I went up to the Sharron Tate house..." - Tori Amos, on Trent Reznor's singing contribution on "Past the Mission" (from Tea With the Waitress) ``The choice for (`Past The Mission') had to be somebody that represented rage and anger because this is all about a girl trying so hard to work through being a victim. I felt like for a guy to be supporting her, it had to be a guy that could rage, because then it would really mean something if he could be tender. Trent is--well, you can't be in all that much rage and pain unless you have a very big heart.'' -Tori Amos, on Trent Reznor's singing contribution on "Past the Mission"from VIRGINIAN-PILOT(Norfolk, VA) (VP) -Wednesday, July 27, 1994 By: SUE SMALLWOOD "In 'Past the Mission,' desperately wanting to break free from being a victim and having Trent come, the raging man, but being very supportive of the woman." -Tori Amos, from unidentified interview |
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| Tori Amos – Cornflake Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"The inspiration for "Cornflake Girl" came from Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, about a young African woman going through the ritual of female genital cutting. Amos was angered by the idea that a mother could subject her daughter to such a brutal act, and the song arose as an exploration of the idea of betrayal between women. In the song two factions of women are referred to: the "Raisin Girls" are "multicultural" and open-minded, while the "Cornflake Girls" of the title are "narrowminded and full of prejudice". The reference to cornflakes and raisins comes from their distribution in a box of breakfast cereal, implying that "raisin girls" are much harder to find than "cornflake girls". Amos has spoken in interviews about being referred to glibly as "the Cornflake Girl" due to the song's title being applied to her, when she considers herself a "Raisin Girl". The mistake may be related to a pre-fame appearance that Amos made in a Kelloggs Just Right commercial in 1987. The term "cornflake girl" also appears in the lyrics of the Billy Bragg song "Body of Water" from his 1991 album Don't Try This at Home with the line "Oh, to become a pearl / In the wordy world of the cornflake girl." (Taken from wikipedia) |
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