Tori Amos covering Eminem 97 Bonnie and Clyde

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I like her voice on the verses. I like the restrained and very measured way she's speaking (but not whispering); it sounds like she's actually lulling a baby to sleep. I like that she keeps the "self-awareness" out of her delivery.

Jody Beth Rosen, Saturday, 5 October 2002 19:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight years pass...

what a weird thread.

i was just saying on the other thread that i love how she used the act of covering a song as an aggressive tactic on this album. like the song is a chessboard and she and eminem are on opposite sides of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7YxrYKQBP8

lex pretend, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link

it's actually quite remarkable how much the song still works in the mother's voice.

so many little details in her inflection - repeating "me and my daughter", the intake of breath on "on the count of three" where it slips from campy horror into something genuinely chilling

lex pretend, Monday, 15 August 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link


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