Tori Amos covering Eminem 97 Bonnie and Clyde

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Heard it? Want to vent your spleen? Or perhaps you are of the opinion that delivering the lyrics in a ham drama-school "menace" voice makes the song actually more menacing, even though the original matter of fact delivery was what really made it chilling in the first place and really you've not got any ideas for a good song yourself.

(Killroy would like to talk to you, call 555-1234)

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Or maybe you're of the opinion that the original, like the person who delivered it, is overrated hash and any cover version doesn't help it at all. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think Eminem is better than Britney Spears! I actually bought "The Marshall Mathers LP", and enjoy several tracks in a non-ironic sense. Maybe I'm not so different after all.

― Sean, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How about that chorus huh? This is why I can't really stomach Tori Amos. I'm not fond of her minimal Depeche Mode take either.

― Honda, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"overrated" I'd agree with that. I think of him as a Julian Clary (pop, camp, silly and a bit limited), where his success seems to indicate that he's thought of as a Chris Morris (genius). and i like both of them.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

I think that Tori Amos' version rocks!! IT creeps me out completely. I have never heard the Eminem version. I think hte lyrics are pretty crazy. Even though it creeps me out i think that it is still good.

― Valerie, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

They are both great versions of the song. The Lyrics are fantastic, and that is much to Mr. Mathers and Bass's credit. Especially to be a)covered with an artist with as much street and industry cred as Ms. Amos; and b) to be in a compilation of songs along with Neil Young, Lou Reed, Lennon & McCartney, Joe Jackson, Bob Geldof, et. al.

I think this question kinds of begs to polarize the audience. I happen to like both Eminem and Tori Amos, But I think that I am going to be one of few the exceptions to the rule.

Hopefully people will be able to enjoy both; for the individual quality each singer brings to the Lyrics.

― Bill Williams, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

frankly, I think Eminem's version is scary.. BUT Tori Amos' version is just more appropriate in how she did it. It's more haunting than Em's version--BUT mind you, I didn't exactly dance to Em's version cuz it frightened the hell out of me. You get the idea.

― Cyndi (Keyyooo), Saturday, 11 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

four months pass...

I think that Tori Amos' version is a lot more sympathitic to the wife character, but that Eminem's version is a lot more evocative of the anger that causes things like that to happen.

― Joe Buchanan, Saturday, 5 October 2002 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

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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