Thank you for all those quotes - it does help verify some of what I suspected the song is about. I think the themes are clear but it's still hard to decipher Tori's language.
I'd always thought the song was partly about self-hatred brought on by prejudice against a person's sexual orientation. The verse:
you know what you know so you go chain her to your flow
she bites through your lean dried meatas she's
going to the movie show
in a bath of gliter and a tiny shiver
she crawls through your lava sea
black sahara
i'm stepping into your space oddity
This, I cannot help but think it's about trivializing martyrdom - turning it into a sort of fashion statement. "She bites through your dry lean meat as she's going to the movie show - in a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver" - it all conjures images of a social scene, a world of superficiality, sharp tongues and bitchiness. I think this is Tori's assessment of the gay scene or maybe just the idea that it's suddenly cool to embrace sexual diversity but it also works as a smokescreen to cover the fact that there's a whole lot of anger and hatred underneath it all. The scene, in fact, perpetuates this sort of behaviour but makes it out to be something cheap, fun and harmless.
I could be completely wrong but still. I do recall reading something about the gay scene and its superficiality.
Thank you for all those quotes - it does help verify some of what I suspected the song is about. I think the themes are clear but it's still hard to decipher Tori's language.
I'd always thought the song was partly about self-hatred brought on by prejudice against a person's sexual orientation. The verse:
you know what you know so you go chain her to your flow she bites through your lean dried meatas she's going to the movie show in a bath of gliter and a tiny shiver she crawls through your lava sea black sahara i'm stepping into your space oddity
This, I cannot help but think it's about trivializing martyrdom - turning it into a sort of fashion statement. "She bites through your dry lean meat as she's going to the movie show - in a bath of glitter and a tiny shiver" - it all conjures images of a social scene, a world of superficiality, sharp tongues and bitchiness. I think this is Tori's assessment of the gay scene or maybe just the idea that it's suddenly cool to embrace sexual diversity but it also works as a smokescreen to cover the fact that there's a whole lot of anger and hatred underneath it all. The scene, in fact, perpetuates this sort of behaviour but makes it out to be something cheap, fun and harmless.
I could be completely wrong but still. I do recall reading something about the gay scene and its superficiality.