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Just (straightening out a few) the facts, ma'am.
I wish there had been a place to comment after the confusing "review" that shows at the top, but since there isn't, I just needed to add a few details that are just glaringly inaccurate in the aforementioned "review". This is not your run of the mill piece, and I get that it might have universal appeal; but can we at least agree that Tori is to be commended for not being afraid to step out and do something some might find "weird"? I love her for that: not necessarily being weird or different for the sake of being different, but putting her artistic vision of her song into video form in an honest way. I quite like it, it is extremely inventive.
>>"A Sorta Fairytale" was never one of my favorite songs by Tori Amos. I guess it was because of its girlie and fairytale-like lyrics.<<
"OP" I am not sure that you heard the lyrics correctly. I don't find anything typically "girlie" or "fairytale" here. That is the title and the word is used ion the song, but the colors, the mood, the very abstract visuals are a huge departure from a typical Technicolor Fairytale. I hope you will listen again.
Here comes the fact-checking, & this truly irritated me about the OP's "review". I remember when the video came out, thinking it was quite impressive that Tori had been able to get Mr Brody to co-star, as he was a HUGE star then. A simple Google search will show that "The Pianist" came out the same year as "Scarlet's Walk", and "A Sorta Fairytale" was its first release. This disproves your HUGELY incorrect claim:
>>The video premiered on October of 2002 and it stars Oscar winner Adrian Brody. That was way before he won the Oscar for THE PIANIST. <<
That was just sloppy reviewing, "way before" his Oscar? No. Some things in a review are personal opinions, and that is absolutely acceptable. But the fact that Tori Amos's music is special enough to get a star of Adrien Brody's caliber says a lot about the respect her music definitely is given. I wish you had mentioned more about where people Tori's explanation & thoughts about the video, but I found this at Wikipedia:
"The two creatures show signs of romantic interest in one another, until the arm accidentally hurts the leg's feelings by laughing at her crooked fifth toe. The leg then flees by jumping onto a passing skateboard, and ends up alone on a deserted beach. The arm finds her and they consummate their love with a deep kiss. The act of kissing causes the arm and leg to suddenly start swelling up and grow their extra body parts—they finally become complete, "whole" humans by realizing their love". That kind of takes the "weird" out of it for me. I like the concept & execution very well. Tori's acting in the video is subtle and lovely. A nice moment at 1:10.
And Tori's comment about ASOF: "I think that there is a place where she (Scarlet) realizes that people come in and out of your life. Sometimes for a day, sometimes for longer. And all of them make you what you are. You can't separate these people out of you. They form who you are. Even the ones that you kind of say well... you know, I don't know if I wanna be formed by them anymore. But you are in some way. You are. That's why, maybe, you don't have to look at them so harshly because they have affected you. At the end, though, you know... it's us as individuals with our... mm... with our love for the land. For something intangible, that when soul-mates come and go, you're never alone even when you're standing just you in your shoes, because you carry them with you".
I hope this review helps, maybe even lets people enjoy both it and the song! Thank you for reading.
>>"A Sorta Fairytale" was never one of my favorite songs by Tori Amos. I guess it was because of its girlie and fairytale-like lyrics.<<
"OP" I am not sure that you heard the lyrics correctly. I don't find anything typically "girlie" or "fairytale" here. That is the title and the word is used ion the song, but the colors, the mood, the very abstract visuals are a huge departure from a typical Technicolor Fairytale. I hope you will listen again.
Here comes the fact-checking, & this truly irritated me about the OP's "review". I remember when the video came out, thinking it was quite impressive that Tori had been able to get Mr Brody to co-star, as he was a HUGE star then. A simple Google search will show that "The Pianist" came out the same year as "Scarlet's Walk", and "A Sorta Fairytale" was its first release. This disproves your HUGELY incorrect claim:
>>The video premiered on October of 2002 and it stars Oscar winner Adrian Brody. That was way before he won the Oscar for THE PIANIST. <<
That was just sloppy reviewing, "way before" his Oscar? No. Some things in a review are personal opinions, and that is absolutely acceptable. But the fact that Tori Amos's music is special enough to get a star of Adrien Brody's caliber says a lot about the respect her music definitely is given. I wish you had mentioned more about where people Tori's explanation & thoughts about the video, but I found this at Wikipedia:
"The two creatures show signs of romantic interest in one another, until the arm accidentally hurts the leg's feelings by laughing at her crooked fifth toe. The leg then flees by jumping onto a passing skateboard, and ends up alone on a deserted beach. The arm finds her and they consummate their love with a deep kiss. The act of kissing causes the arm and leg to suddenly start swelling up and grow their extra body parts—they finally become complete, "whole" humans by realizing their love". That kind of takes the "weird" out of it for me. I like the concept & execution very well. Tori's acting in the video is subtle and lovely. A nice moment at 1:10.
And Tori's comment about ASOF: "I think that there is a place where she (Scarlet) realizes that people come in and out of your life. Sometimes for a day, sometimes for longer. And all of them make you what you are. You can't separate these people out of you. They form who you are. Even the ones that you kind of say well... you know, I don't know if I wanna be formed by them anymore. But you are in some way. You are. That's why, maybe, you don't have to look at them so harshly because they have affected you. At the end, though, you know... it's us as individuals with our... mm... with our love for the land. For something intangible, that when soul-mates come and go, you're never alone even when you're standing just you in your shoes, because you carry them with you".
I hope this review helps, maybe even lets people enjoy both it and the song! Thank you for reading.
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