Strange Little Girls is interesting, but to me already was a show of weakness, as cover albums often come. I liked the idea, but often not her choice of songs. Of all the covers she has ever done, she picks Eminem? But hey! I understand how she ticks, in certain ways. It was just not so... appealing to me.

And Scarlet's Walk is where she totally lost me, actually. That was already of such a blandness, when it comes to performance (instr AND the vocal presence) AND songwriting, that I kinda looked for greener pastures, artists that dared to go deep.

I mean, Tori has been so deep that her just being Tori is... well, a tat boring. It is like Kate Bush singing laundry songs.

I guess mellow, mature Tori caught me at the right time.

LoL.

I was mellow and mature in my teens, mr. I am ready for Tori doing NiN beats, damnit.

HamsterHuey said:

A whole bunch of people in my life were dying when Beekeeper came out. I needed the reassurance.

GangstaFam said:

I found reassurance in the other worldly beats of The Knife and Roísín Murphy.

HamsterHuey said:

I just discovered The Knife this week. I read in a magazine that they have similarities to Siouxsie--no more needed to be said. I bought 'Silent Shout' yesterday. Love it.

i'm going to throw a big anti-bjork tantrum tonight and rent a couple of pianos and play them at the same time whilst doing soft-folk interpretations of nirvana songs. i might even let a pig suck my tit.

MikeMatronik said:

You're slackin' Mike! It's from Under the Pink.

I've finally graduated to intermediate Toriphiledom when I can correct other rabid fans' references.