Love your analysis dragonflydamsel. What is so great about Tori's music is she is a master of double entendre. It is definitely about war--and I agree overtly as evidenced by Isabel. But it is intensely about internal war with a woman. Whether she is sharing her feelings with a man or with herself or with another woman...I'm not sure. Or maybe it's someone talking to her. Femme Fatale is a reference to film noir from 1944 "Double Imdemnity" when the woman (the FF character) feels trapped by traditional womanhood, motherhood, etc. and kills her husband. Marriage is confining. It was done again by that name in 2002, but the concept developed in film noir during WWII (again War reference) and goes back to Lilith and Cleopatra. The beginning of course is depression (perhaps over knowing the confines of womanhood and what men are doing? again war and history as well as personally?). Her other persona (real or imagined admonishing her not to put on roseys, but really, a mask isn't her best disguise. The blondes don't jump out of cakes...Marilyn Monroe and JFK??? The famous b-day song? As well as a blanket indictment of not sensuality but ditzyness and saying blondes don't do this, but we take power (Isabel). (Just thinking out loud here) As for Violet, there are many Violets associated with Femme Fatale: Andy Warhol with Velvet Underground (who wrote a song called FF) worked with Ultra Violet--this could be a figuative death for Violet. Violet is also considered acceptable for mourning. There are many opera stars, prisoners, poets, writers who are called violet or use violet. But not being able to secude seduction? Well, if that doesn't fit Andy and UltraViolet! (But I haven't read all the poetry or seen all the opera!) Corridors of course are the brain (see emily dickinson) and the witching hour is of course the time when supernatural is at it's most powerful--particularly female. So Violet's tentacles of endless want tempt her to taste her power (look at the past Violets and what that power got them, what they sacrificed for men or whatever, what the cost) and she sobers with the witching hour F(when the supernatural--the female spirits, her kindrid sisters come) There is also a poem that talks of a nightingale being robbed of it's young and that the songs are in vain. I'm sure a well-read Tori would know this. The last verse speaks for itself and ties everything together. Whether you are waging an internal war or speaking out against a very real one, Isabel would say something about throwing up your arms against hearing one more bomb.
Love your analysis dragonflydamsel. What is so great about Tori's music is she is a master of double entendre. It is definitely about war--and I agree overtly as evidenced by Isabel. But it is intensely about internal war with a woman. Whether she is sharing her feelings with a man or with herself or with another woman...I'm not sure. Or maybe it's someone talking to her. Femme Fatale is a reference to film noir from 1944 "Double Imdemnity" when the woman (the FF character) feels trapped by traditional womanhood, motherhood, etc. and kills her husband. Marriage is confining. It was done again by that name in 2002, but the concept developed in film noir during WWII (again War reference) and goes back to Lilith and Cleopatra. The beginning of course is depression (perhaps over knowing the confines of womanhood and what men are doing? again war and history as well as personally?). Her other persona (real or imagined admonishing her not to put on roseys, but really, a mask isn't her best disguise. The blondes don't jump out of cakes...Marilyn Monroe and JFK??? The famous b-day song? As well as a blanket indictment of not sensuality but ditzyness and saying blondes don't do this, but we take power (Isabel). (Just thinking out loud here) As for Violet, there are many Violets associated with Femme Fatale: Andy Warhol with Velvet Underground (who wrote a song called FF) worked with Ultra Violet--this could be a figuative death for Violet. Violet is also considered acceptable for mourning. There are many opera stars, prisoners, poets, writers who are called violet or use violet. But not being able to secude seduction? Well, if that doesn't fit Andy and UltraViolet! (But I haven't read all the poetry or seen all the opera!) Corridors of course are the brain (see emily dickinson) and the witching hour is of course the time when supernatural is at it's most powerful--particularly female. So Violet's tentacles of endless want tempt her to taste her power (look at the past Violets and what that power got them, what they sacrificed for men or whatever, what the cost) and she sobers with the witching hour F(when the supernatural--the female spirits, her kindrid sisters come) There is also a poem that talks of a nightingale being robbed of it's young and that the songs are in vain. I'm sure a well-read Tori would know this. The last verse speaks for itself and ties everything together. Whether you are waging an internal war or speaking out against a very real one, Isabel would say something about throwing up your arms against hearing one more bomb.