Tori Amos - Spiegel TV Interview (German) May 2009

[nin56665]

So here is some kind of transcript.If I coudn't hear what Tori was saying,I translated the german.:)

The american songwriter Tori Amos is back with the new album Abnormally Arttracted To Sin. The sin, that we’re attracted to is what the ministers daughter wants define new. Tori:” I’m drawn to all kinds of things, that the patriarchy would find quite threatening because my interest is sovereignty for women.

[nin56665]

@nin56665 . What I mean is to emancipate from the male authority that demonstrated and dictated over hundred years what sin is for a woman.” This time, the feministic mission of the exceptional artist is to celebrate the motherhood. That’s why at mother’s day is a special action; Tori Amos put her song Maybe California free on the internet. Tori: “The song Maybe California is about a overwhelmed mother that suicidal thought has. It could lead to a tragedy, unless she finds a rescue.

[nin56665]

@nin56665 Either she overcomes herself or she gets help from another mother who has been there. Who understands. And tries to show her the consequences of that choice and how devastating that would be. So the song itself said to once it was finished, that “you must give me to the mothers”. You must now. I’ve given myself to you, now you must give me to the other women who are out there.”Personal and political are for Tori Amos the same thing.

[nin56665]

@nin56665 In times of the crisis she’s watching the women who are suffering and are afraid to show their fears. At least the role of the mother is to keep everything together. Tori:”You are what you believe in. And women have to find strength in themselves. They can’t fix everything. It’s not our job to fix things we didn’t break. But, what we have to do is to find a new definition of success. It does not always have to be material things. What is a provider? 

[nin56665]

@nin56665 It can be a person who has a job and provides the family. But there are different ways to provide to get though crisis. You have to get out creatively of destruction. That’s the only way to combat it.”To combat crisis creatively. Who can’t manage it by singing and sounds of the piano like Tori Amos, then you can rely on one thing, that you can get for free on mother’s day. Tori: “Nothing can replace being hugged by your mother. It’s just you can’t buy; the banker can’t give it to us.

[nin56665]

@nin56665 It’s something we haven’t valued yet. In this crisis we’re talking about the value that we’re losing, about material thing, about the way of life. But what mothers need to be reminded is that they are like the earth, without the earth we ceased to exist.”

[Shecerka]

Can someone do the transcript, please?!

[natashaclaire]

is there some way you could turn down the German a lil' bit?

[hotfukka]

lol, It's so distracting:)