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Tori Amos, Cornflake Girl - Amys First Listen and Analysis (Patreon)

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2024-12-18 12:20:30
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I found this song both baffling and intriguing. I especially enjoyed the textures and multidimensional effect she created with the vocal parts. 

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TONY SURRATT

Enjoyed that. I think this is my second Tori also. The subject is mind boggling, and I can’t find any logic. I did like the sound. I trying to figure if it belongs in the creepy category

Sean Shannon

The range of the piano you're noticing is in part because Tori plays Bosendorfer pianos, which extend beyond the traditional 88 piano keys. I don't think Tori plays any of the extended keys in the song, but just the presence of the additional strings in the body of the piano creates additional resonances that give Bosendorfer pianos their distinct sound. Interpretations of "Cornflake Girl" range far and wide. This is probably the closest thing Tori has to a signature song, and its lyrics are still being interpreted in new ways over thirty years later. I hope Vlad found some videos of Tori discussing the song for a "Minutes After." This is also a more modern remix of the song; the original album/single version lacked the overlaid vocals in the "And the man with the golden gun" section and the electric guitar at the end. (It also had a longer break after the second verse.) I was actually planning on commissioning the album version of the song early next year, but I'll probably select something else from _Under the Pink_ instead, just for more variety on the channel.

Ron Ueberschaer

I don’t think Amy understands Tori Amos at all. She’s not dead, and did a recent interview with Rick Beato. As fellow female pianists, you two ladies would benefit from a direct conversation instead of one guessing what the other means …

Siôn Hewitt

Absolutely love this song. Something very wistful about it. . Remember listening to it on dark rainy days. Another nostalgia hit for me . Never knew what the subject matter was. I’ll be honest. I don’t always look to interpret lyrics of songs I always listen to. I just like the tune, singing , musicianship and emotional value.

RAD1

Now it would be fun to listen to Simon & Garfunkel's song 'Punky's Dilemma' where Paul sings 'Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake, floatin in my bowl, talkin to a raisin who 'casion"ly plays LA'. Maybe Tori was influenced by that song?

Jeremy Morton

My first time really hearing She's Leaving Home was when Tori played it at the end of her 1996 tour in Boulder, CO: https://youtu.be/imwrG3tS9Ms?si=Wag4z1-HPxCpFDVC It's interesting to listen to now and hear how she folded the vocal parts and all the instruments into just her voice and the Bösendorfer.

Jeremy Morton

I've been listening to a lot of Tori for over 30 years. She is masterful at evoking, with piano (/harpsicord/organ/etc.) and with voice and poetic lyrics, but seldom with straightforward lyrics. I suspect that she writes mainly with metaphorical phrases that mean something to her and possibly to her friends, though I think she is really good at using the poetry to evoke what she wants, even if you often can't quite pin the words down. I always took this song as the mourning of a friend who has recently gone over to the "other side": the side of the girls who aren't loyal to their girlfriends, and who consider girls to all be in cutthroat competition for boys. ("She's puttin' on her string bean love" always evoked a G-string in my mind, though it may or may not be the exact meaning intended.) The main thing that I haven't figured out is if the narrator is a "raisin girl" (it seems to be the "other side", which would mean no), or if she's a "cornflake girl" (which she seems to denigrate: "never was a cornflake girl thought that was a good solution", so maybe not one of those, either), or if she's another category of girl, one which isn't mentioned at all. I lean towards her being a cornflake girl, and taking "never was a cornflake girl thought that was a good solution" as something the raisin girls (and her former friend) say.

Michael T.B

I always thought of Tori Amos as a wounded seabird walking across the piano begging for help. She made some really touching desperate music

Rafa Tintoré

I like when singers use their voice like an istrument, Sometimes histrionic. I also apreciatte the ability to compose, create and Tori is one of them. Maybe an influence of her was Kate Bush, a pioneer for composer women. Point Kate Bush for a next video

dnlng 118

Basically terms like Cornflake girl are not widely used and the lyrics are highly personal and individual, so you get the sense of peering in on the writer's subjective frame of reference as an outside observer. I suppose this is the appeal of a lot of the singer-songwriter genre in general -- a highly personal register and a feeling of intimate connection

Angela Mucci

I grew up with Tori Amos’ music- this analysis brought me here. I love the way Amy uses images (walking on the thick carpet) to describe the texture of the sound. When Tori sings “Where’d you put the keys,” I never thought of keys on the piano. It makes so much sense … What a fun new way to think of the double meaning of those lyrics …. Also, Amy, you mentioned that part of the song made you think of a swirling storm, like a tornado….. check out the UK video for the song, which features a tornado, and Tori singing within the tornado during that part ! What a gift you have, Amy! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mVSuSsoXABQ&pp=ygUYVG9yaSBhbW9zIGNvZW5mbGFrZSBnaXJs

Angela Mucci
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Sean, I love that you will commission something from ‘Under the Pink!” Thank you for your public service :)… I was thinking of commissioning ‘Sister Janet,’ you know that one? That song fascinates me. I’d love to hear her take on it. What’s yours, Sean?