Hahaa the Americas are weak omg lol The Americans turned down the original video cause its was too weird. As Angelica Huston said about her movie the witches the reason it was a hit in Europe and on the usa is they europens have a stronger stomachs. The Americas also turned down the video for i want to brake free
but what really makes this video total garbage is putting in a bunch of phoney actresses(stupid useless dykes) to give it that edge, tori doesnt need that useslesshits, music is good enough w/out having a bunch of useless stupid dykes femnints try to use this as their national anthem .
@MonyVibescu1919 She was raped, sober and by knife point, after he offered to drive her home from her waitressing job. I don't think this has anything to do with that...
Oddio! Mi hanno detto di ascoltare questa cantante e me l'hanno segnalata come la cantante più brava del mondo e con la voce più bella del mondo... ne sono rimasta molto delusa. Ho sentito cantanti con voci più belle (la sua a volte viene coperta dalla musica) e non mi sembra poi così bella questa canzone...
assolutamente no, ma visto che appartengono ad una categoria musicale del tutto misera, subnormale, e di facile comprensione ed attuazione (in effetti, non è nemmeno da definirsi "musica", ma spazzatura commerciale), fossi in te, mi farei un po' di problemi a criticare un'artista musicale del calibro di Tori Amos :)
Guarda, non ci discuto nemmeno con te perché non ne vale la pena. La musica che ascolti tu deve essere per forza il meglio di tutti. Contenta te, contenta tutti. Questa qui, così famosa che la sento tutti i giorni alla radio, viene definita una cantante rock, ma Vasco Rossi è più rock di lei.
Non sto facendo la vittima: ognuno ha i suoi gusti. Se per te le canzoni di Ferro e della Pausini sono merda, per me questa è merda.
Non sarà rock, ma chi me l'ha disegnata come la cantante più brava di tutti i tempi ha detto che era rock.
Mi hai detto di provare ad interessarmi a lei così inizierò ad amarla, non vedo perché dovrei farlo. Io potrei farti lo stesso discorso con la Pausini.
ad ogni modo, prova ad approfondirla, inizialmente non è semplice l'approccio con la sua musica (specie con i testi), ma a poco a poco arrivi ad amarla, e ad estendere le tue conoscenze musicali (nonchè a lasciar stare merda come ferro e pausini). Ma è solo un consiglio. buona serata
This is about sexual freedom and expression cornflakes do your research cornflake was about abstainance and sexual prohibition so a cornflake girl would be something of a virgin possibley a prude the rasin girls would the opposite of that feminist who are all about sexual freedom and expression this song is about casting of the chains of sexual repression.
women are deceptive twisted bitches...i am a woman myself, and been deceived in the most horrible ways possible by other women, starting with my mother since childhood.. i i will NEVER again trust another woman again..as long as i live. End of story. I will listen to their music and admire where admiration is due, which it is in Toris case. She's a brill artist!!
@PlushieLenny Personally, I like thought provoking discussions regarding lyrical content as long as people are being civil about it. :) It's a lot more interesting than a lot of the same ole boring "oooh ahh nice vid blabla etc" sorta comments. So, what do you believe the meaning of the video is?
@jasonfussell999 its not a hidden meaning, it IS the meaning, the song is about genotal mutiliation and women against women, if u listen to a song and are clueless about its theme ur dumb
Tori Amos is a very talented person. Some of the characters on here are thinking completely out of the box. I know new ways are in now but damn Tori is not trying to be out of the box like some on here are saying. PLEASE STOP TRYING TO READ WHAT HER LYRICS ARE MEANING. because its just that A WONDERFUL AND TALENTFUL SONG.. I know if she was to read this she is LHAO at yall. JUST BE SIMPLE AND ENJOY HER MUSIC.
with my encyclopedia, they musta paid a real nice price. shes putting on her string bean love. well this is not really this a this a this is not really happening. you bet your life it is. you bet your life it is. oh, you bet your life. its a peal out the watch word just peal out the watch word. and the man with the golden gun thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much yah.
never was a cornflake girl. thought that was a good solution, hangin with the raisin girls. shes going to the other side. giving us the old heave ho. things are getting kind of gross. and i go at sleepy time. this is not really this a this a this is not really happening. you bet your life it is. you bet your life it is. you bet your life. its a peal out the watch word just peal out the watch word. she knows whats going on. seems weve got a cheeper feel now all the sweetees are gone.
Part of the beauty of her music is not fully understanding her lyrics right away. It takes time for me to figure them out, but I eventually do. It shows how talented of a writer she truly is. She challenges your mind and she makes you think. How many artists today can do that? Then again, she was never an A-lister. But that's only because she is not a mainstream artist. I wish she could go back to piano rather than heavy guitar use like in her later material. She has great piano ballads!
i bought this when it first came out and i still have the cd i love it when she get on the piano .. never knew what the cornflake girl meant but it sounds good
I mutilated my genitals to this song because it is so clearly about the subject. When she says cornflake girl, it means she stuffs crushed up cornflakes in her vag which cause small cuts and so forth, but then they get soggy, so she stuffs raisins up her vag which have enzymes that cause infection and then she spoons them out as part of a nutritious breakfast.... how the hell can you people not see that?
OK, the genital mutilation song is the one where she sings, "Chickens, get a taste of her meat". THAT song is about female genital mutilation. This song is not.
I listened to Tori Amos from the very beginning. To me she was this beautiful talent that was born with a piano and a poet inside of her. I never understood why so many people put her in the same category with man-hating singers from the '90s. Until now.
First time I have seen this (gave up on MTV a loooong time ago) and this does not do her any justice. Listen to the piano near the end and they produced this crap for her?
Oh and if you don't get the song meaning, just stop trying.
I have Under The Pink, but my music collection's so big, that I somehow never listened to this song. Anyways, it's a great song, and Tori's ripping it up towards the end of the song. It almost makes me regret my decision to switch from piano to guitar.
beccatevi Nathalie giannitrapani che la canterà domani sera ad x-factor. Elio se la rischia con un brano straniero e non popolare come gli altri giudici/concorrenti. perciò votatela cazzo!!! altrimenti va avanti la musica delle puttanelle complessate!!
I remember the studio version of this song having two piano solos in the end. Is the second solo not a part of the video (UK version had only one solo as well)?
yeah I don't know where anyone here came up with the genital mutilation connection with this song but it's WRONG....Cornflake just means "plain" and she tried hanging with the raisin girls means she tried hanging with the richy girls. the song is about 2 women fighting....it's simple just listen to it... if that is too hard look up interviews where she says what I just said. the internet is right in front of you
From an Under the Pink interview with Tori about Cornflake Girl - “So Cornflake, Bells, and Waitress are a triangle together. Part of this record is dealing with the betrayal of women, between women. These three, Cornflake is, I’ve been reading Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker. It went in depth of just women betraying women, and how the mothers really sold their daughters to the butchers, and had their genitalia removed, et cetera."
@mememaking actually maybe you should read the interviews where Tori says the song is inspired by the genital mutilation in an Alice Walker book, it's about women betraying women and that was one of her inspirations.
@mememaking I was just a teenager when this came out and all I remember was her lovely hair and beautiful lips! ...oh well I spent many years and lots of tears trying to find a girl who could compare to tori, and I found her her!! no for real! 1999 in London but alas she had to leave and go back to the U.S. ... What was odd is that she was called Regina-she was on the 2nd year music course with me- and years later a freind of mine gave me a download of a track I recorded with her at the time.
@mememaking It's inspired by her anger at the stories of genital mutilation. I advise you check your own sources :) She read the book "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker
"I read the Alice Walker book, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and there's umm, in that book, the mothers take the daughters to the butchers to have their, let's say their genitalia removed. "
"And even though it's a patriarchal culture that she's talking about, and that this custom was put into practice a long, long time ago by the patriarchy, it's the mothers that take their daughters. And, what I was singing about was, it's funny how from generation to generation women really betray each other in the ladies' room." - Tori Amos 99X Radio Interview, 08/05/94
@mememaking Other way around. I remember her saying that she would be prefer to be called a "Raisin Girl" because "Cornflake Girls" are self-centered and mean.
@mememaking No, you are wrong and it says so all over the internet.The inspiration for "Cornflake Girl" came from Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, about a young African woman going through the ritual of female genital mutilation., and the song arose as an exploration of the idea of betrayal between women. In the song women are referred to: the "Raisin Girls" are "multicultural" and open-minded, while the "Cornflake Girls" of the title are "narrowminded and full of prejudice".
Amazing song. Wow. She was born when my mom was born and she still looks f***able. I'm a chick and even i'll say that. Amazing lyricist, singer, beautiful woman, awesome performer.
Through her interviews it's about female genital mutilation. She was appalled by what women would do to their daughters for the acceptance of society and men.
Cornflake girl is a narrow minded individual and raisin girl is open minded, more cornflakes in a box, raisins are hard to find etc.
Watchword means to reply to a challenge so the woman is taking that voice away from the other, ie, peeling it out.
Man with the golden gun means simply that men have the power. My interpretations.
@HalcyonSunset thank you for a very insightful and informative answer. I had no idea what this great song was about. I have read quite a bit about the cultural practice of female mutilation. It's horrible! Many Muslims practice it quite a bit. The horrid custom is just one more reason in a long line of reasons to keep Muslims in check in Western society. Sharia Law, my ass! So-called MODERATE Muslims need to speak up. SILENT ALL THESE YEARS.
@rockyracune What a shame ! You're just ignorant... Go buy some books, and read about foreign cultures, maybe then you'll have reasons to have enemies in this world, but not before that. Obviously you've never read anything serious about history of mankind or civilization or even religions. Please stop repeating what you've heard on Fox News or read in crappy newspapers. You're being manipulated, brainwashed and you're too blind to see. Wake up !
@kaboubass, Muslims have been known to bury women up to their necks before stoning them to death; they have perpetuated the deplorable cultural practice of mutilating little girls through female circumcision; they have committed "honor killings" against daughters deemed too independent by Muslim fathers; they have punished “uppity” women by cutting off their ears and lips; and they have thrown acid on the faces of elementary school girls to discourage the girls from pursuing an education.
@rockyracune Go through history and you can easily find disgusting and hrooible things about every religions, Hindus and their terrible caste system, or catholics and a child abuse cover up, no one is right, but tarring everyone in a faith as the same is ignorant and silly
@rockyracune FYI, Female mutilation has got nothing to do with muslims. Very few tribes in Africa have such customs, but these customs were there long before Islam even existed ! The point is that islam is supposed to be a tolerant religion, and therefore acknowledged the customs of the land where it established.
BTW I'm an atheist, I truly think religions are rubbish and lies. But I read seriously about them before making my own opinion. And that's what you should do before saying stupidities.
@feedusafetus You're right about the wars. But Nationalism is about defending your country against enemies foreign and domestic. You have your freedom ONLY becuause of Nationalists who have spilled their blood on this soil. Religious wars are a waste because you're fighting for an imaginary entity that doesn't exist.
@noreexic Nationalism is a philosophy practiced by many citizens from many countries. It's not limited to the US. Yes, we stole this land from the Native Americans but many countries and many religions have done worse.
@rockyracune I can understand your dislike for some Muslim customs, but the one regarding female mutilation has to do with culture not religion. Even if some Muslim families do it, they do so because of the customs of their country/region, it has nothing to do with Islam itself (that's like calling "eating turkey at thanksgiving" a christian custom because a lot of christian families in America do it)
@rockyracune What a horrible comment! we need to "keep the Muslims in check" ???!!!?!? really? They are not animals. You should probably go read some books and educate yourself. That is if a naive person like you even knows how to read intelligent literature.
I really miss that long piano solo. They cut it out in the music videos (UK and US versions).
CYK132 7 months ago
Filipino? That guys white. Lmao.
Roadhammer379x 7 months ago
Gosh soo much beauty in one song! I can't take it! :D
BrokenAngel2011 7 months ago
Hahaa the Americas are weak omg lol The Americans turned down the original video cause its was too weird. As Angelica Huston said about her movie the witches the reason it was a hit in Europe and on the usa is they europens have a stronger stomachs. The Americas also turned down the video for i want to brake free
EmoDeathStar121 7 months ago
@EmoDeathStar121 douche bag
TheFarrah666 6 months ago
Wish I could dance in the rain with her.
jaderain100 7 months ago
I always thought this was Alanis morissette. Guess I was dead wrong.
adkins6am 7 months ago
just going through the motions of a Kate Bush song, minus Kate Bush's good song-writing...
NazTb0y 7 months ago
The things were going I was pretty sure this video was going to end with a one
big and happy orgy
bulibilbuli 8 months ago
discovered Tori Amos way back in highschool! Class of 2000, she was what I needed at the time, she touched my heart and soul =)
Bahia82 8 months ago
you own nothing? heres 20 bucks
mrwalter455 8 months ago 2
@mrwalter455 THANKS! lol
PlushieLenny 8 months ago
but what really makes this video total garbage is putting in a bunch of phoney actresses(stupid useless dykes) to give it that edge, tori doesnt need that useslesshits, music is good enough w/out having a bunch of useless stupid dykes femnints try to use this as their national anthem .
countbloodula 8 months ago
this garbage is made specifically for stupid dykes gross butches and worthless feminists
countbloodula 8 months ago
@countbloodula sounds like you need some tampons, esp. with that username :p
MoofinatorLauratron 8 months ago
And the man with the golden gun, thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much, yeah... :D
xxThinkOfYou 8 months ago
@baw0909 hi what is the name of the guy?
jasondeguia2 8 months ago
@jasondeguia2 Christopher Douglas
78131723 8 months ago
US VERSION SO MUCH BETTER!!
kellee1ferret 8 months ago
a wonderful song masterfully performed by its maker :)
raymondcraig 8 months ago
who is that guy on this video, he's filipino looking, beautiful
jasondeguia2 8 months ago
@jasondeguia2 I thought the white guy looked indonesian or samoan :)
baw0909 8 months ago
Argh they will say anything to stop it in it tracks and dominate this rebellious voice
TallPoe 9 months ago
i like this song very much, Tori great talent.
netsaracen 9 months ago
this has to be about the catchiest song I've ever heard...
rick777888 9 months ago
i saw her in concert portsmouth 1993 just after kurt cobain died what a voice out of this world. just her a piano
Tracey079699 9 months ago
@MonyVibescu1919 She was raped, sober and by knife point, after he offered to drive her home from her waitressing job. I don't think this has anything to do with that...
bookcreator 9 months ago
This song is a classic song about Betrayal Tori says so in her biography which was an awesome thing to read btw :)
soren1435 9 months ago
Oddio! Mi hanno detto di ascoltare questa cantante e me l'hanno segnalata come la cantante più brava del mondo e con la voce più bella del mondo... ne sono rimasta molto delusa. Ho sentito cantanti con voci più belle (la sua a volte viene coperta dalla musica) e non mi sembra poi così bella questa canzone...
LizzieSora 10 months ago
@LizzieSora
solo una fan di tiziano ferro e laura pausini avrebbe potuto dire una simile minchiata.
commiserazione.
PrincipessaRock 9 months ago
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LizzieSora 9 months ago
@LizzieSora
assolutamente no, ma visto che appartengono ad una categoria musicale del tutto misera, subnormale, e di facile comprensione ed attuazione (in effetti, non è nemmeno da definirsi "musica", ma spazzatura commerciale), fossi in te, mi farei un po' di problemi a criticare un'artista musicale del calibro di Tori Amos :)
PrincipessaRock 9 months ago
@PrincipessaRock
Guarda, non ci discuto nemmeno con te perché non ne vale la pena. La musica che ascolti tu deve essere per forza il meglio di tutti. Contenta te, contenta tutti. Questa qui, così famosa che la sento tutti i giorni alla radio, viene definita una cantante rock, ma Vasco Rossi è più rock di lei.
LizzieSora 9 months ago
@LizzieSora
non è assolutamente la musica migliore che esista. Non fare la vittima, non attacca. :)
Tra l'altro, non è rock. A dirla tutta, il suo stile musicale cambia talmente tanto da album ad album, che è pressochè indefinibile.
E te ne prego, non nominare miseria culturale come vasco rossi. Il mio voleva essere solo un consiglio, non infervorarti, suvvia.. :)
PrincipessaRock 9 months ago
@PrincipessaRock
Non sto facendo la vittima: ognuno ha i suoi gusti. Se per te le canzoni di Ferro e della Pausini sono merda, per me questa è merda.
Non sarà rock, ma chi me l'ha disegnata come la cantante più brava di tutti i tempi ha detto che era rock.
Mi hai detto di provare ad interessarmi a lei così inizierò ad amarla, non vedo perché dovrei farlo. Io potrei farti lo stesso discorso con la Pausini.
LizzieSora 9 months ago
@LizzieSora
ad ogni modo, prova ad approfondirla, inizialmente non è semplice l'approccio con la sua musica (specie con i testi), ma a poco a poco arrivi ad amarla, e ad estendere le tue conoscenze musicali (nonchè a lasciar stare merda come ferro e pausini). Ma è solo un consiglio. buona serata
PrincipessaRock 9 months ago
@PrincipessaRock
Mi congratulo con te per il non rispetto che hai nei confronti degli altri.
LizzieSora 9 months ago
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@PrincipessaRock
Perché hai qualche problema se acolto Tiziano Ferro e Laura Pausini? Stanne certa, esistono cantanti che hanno una voce molto più bella della sua.
LizzieSora 9 months ago
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LizzieSora 9 months ago
@MonyVibescu1919
I don't think so. "Me and a gun" is about this, not cornflake girl
PreciousRaspberry01 10 months ago
Have Tori Amos & Dave Mustaine ever been seen in the SAME place & the SAME time before? Just sayin...
ngd138 10 months ago 4
@ngd138 Both ginger haired, both awesome...Well, they have sth in common :D
BeanShidh 8 months ago
@ngd138 LOL! Brilliant observation.
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greenfairies13 10 months ago
Downhill. I don't know his level. He definitely wants an open marriage. Good to know. Thanks.
greenfairies13 10 months ago
I was wondering if a woman or a man changed this. A woman changed this. A man was thinking of you. Thanks.
greenfairies13 10 months ago
i like more the UK version fror this video, but this it's ok too
jimmy16sinn 11 months ago
This is about sexual freedom and expression cornflakes do your research cornflake was about abstainance and sexual prohibition so a cornflake girl would be something of a virgin possibley a prude the rasin girls would the opposite of that feminist who are all about sexual freedom and expression this song is about casting of the chains of sexual repression.
spiderlily21 11 months ago
tumbs up if you would father children by her
dayo1075 11 months ago
you bet your life it is
ajeanne1000 11 months ago 2
women are deceptive twisted bitches...i am a woman myself, and been deceived in the most horrible ways possible by other women, starting with my mother since childhood.. i i will NEVER again trust another woman again..as long as i live. End of story. I will listen to their music and admire where admiration is due, which it is in Toris case. She's a brill artist!!
reallyfullofmyself 1 year ago
@reallyfullofmyself ----well said!
toriinprogress 11 months ago
1 person like frosted flakes
Kandeegirl66 1 year ago
She never was a cornflake girl -- she never was a milk white run of the mill stereotype girl and couldn't fit into that mold.
sslamthedoor 1 year ago
@PlushieLenny Personally, I like thought provoking discussions regarding lyrical content as long as people are being civil about it. :) It's a lot more interesting than a lot of the same ole boring "oooh ahh nice vid blabla etc" sorta comments. So, what do you believe the meaning of the video is?
ShockResistor 1 year ago
@ShockResistor your right, removed my comment.
PlushieLenny 1 year ago
Saw her live in Tennessee and she was AMAZING!
e7376737 1 year ago
What do you expect from Tori Amos ? Her father was a minister.
sslamthedoor 1 year ago
...wtfis up witht he person soup at the end..
funnyshows1 1 year ago
God this American version of the video sucks, but wow, who knew a song about genital mutiliation could be so good
noreexic 1 year ago
I love this song, I love Tori
sexyhooliganyolanda 1 year ago
ok, I never comment on the numbers, cus i'm not a douche, but who had to be that ONE guy??
BlainePistolle 1 year ago
Does she remind anyone else of Rose from "The Titanic"?
LiTTLEMoNStERxx1 1 year ago
genital mutilation, in reference to butchers.
Ei: selling or destroying there selfness, there sexuality and there womanhood.
creativefatality 1 year ago
awwwwwwww i miss the 90s :<
stefanybody 1 year ago
best song of my life:)))
1roback 1 year ago
Me and her share our birthday!
circethesorceress 1 year ago
Tori and Fiona Apple should do a song together
juddithmaddox85 1 year ago
no, FA is a talentless hack
1976smell 1 year ago
i don't really care what this song is about, or about hidden meanings. its a great song and thats all that should matter.
jasonfussell999 1 year ago 2
@jasonfussell999 its not a hidden meaning, it IS the meaning, the song is about genotal mutiliation and women against women, if u listen to a song and are clueless about its theme ur dumb
noreexic 1 year ago
And I thought the song meant poster girl for cereals.!
arkangelblue 1 year ago
Tori Amos is a very talented person. Some of the characters on here are thinking completely out of the box. I know new ways are in now but damn Tori is not trying to be out of the box like some on here are saying. PLEASE STOP TRYING TO READ WHAT HER LYRICS ARE MEANING. because its just that A WONDERFUL AND TALENTFUL SONG.. I know if she was to read this she is LHAO at yall. JUST BE SIMPLE AND ENJOY HER MUSIC.
babymama3xs 1 year ago
with my encyclopedia, they musta paid a real nice price. shes putting on her string bean love. well this is not really this a this a this is not really happening. you bet your life it is. you bet your life it is. oh, you bet your life. its a peal out the watch word just peal out the watch word. and the man with the golden gun thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much yah.
BabyblueQtPie4u 1 year ago
never was a cornflake girl. thought that was a good solution, hangin with the raisin girls. shes going to the other side. giving us the old heave ho. things are getting kind of gross. and i go at sleepy time. this is not really this a this a this is not really happening. you bet your life it is. you bet your life it is. you bet your life. its a peal out the watch word just peal out the watch word. she knows whats going on. seems weve got a cheeper feel now all the sweetees are gone.
BabyblueQtPie4u 1 year ago
Part of the beauty of her music is not fully understanding her lyrics right away. It takes time for me to figure them out, but I eventually do. It shows how talented of a writer she truly is. She challenges your mind and she makes you think. How many artists today can do that? Then again, she was never an A-lister. But that's only because she is not a mainstream artist. I wish she could go back to piano rather than heavy guitar use like in her later material. She has great piano ballads!
failurefanatic 1 year ago
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i bought this when it first came out and i still have the cd i love it when she get on the piano .. never knew what the cornflake girl meant but it sounds good
happinessevery 1 year ago
i heard this song in school. i think it's awesome.
CebuLips9 1 year ago
I mutilated my genitals to this song because it is so clearly about the subject. When she says cornflake girl, it means she stuffs crushed up cornflakes in her vag which cause small cuts and so forth, but then they get soggy, so she stuffs raisins up her vag which have enzymes that cause infection and then she spoons them out as part of a nutritious breakfast.... how the hell can you people not see that?
gzussturbo 1 year ago 2
@gzussturbo i love you
theantiboop 1 year ago
@gzussturbo you have made my day lol
CayCay009 1 year ago
Why would anyone think its about female mutilation?!?!?!?!?!?! Just ENJOY the song!!!! It is a BEAUTIFUL song!!!! let it be just that!!
Victorygirl80 1 year ago
OK, the genital mutilation song is the one where she sings, "Chickens, get a taste of her meat". THAT song is about female genital mutilation. This song is not.
laulbow 1 year ago
@laulbow
Oh, wow, I love "Blood Roses!" That is one hell of an album. She's never done another predominantly piano album ever since.
failurefanatic 1 year ago
I listened to Tori Amos from the very beginning. To me she was this beautiful talent that was born with a piano and a poet inside of her. I never understood why so many people put her in the same category with man-hating singers from the '90s. Until now.
First time I have seen this (gave up on MTV a loooong time ago) and this does not do her any justice. Listen to the piano near the end and they produced this crap for her?
Oh and if you don't get the song meaning, just stop trying.
horkusone 1 year ago
i love the look on her face when she says "they must of paid her a nice price"
xpoondiggy 1 year ago
My Mix pit stop!!! this song is number 2 on my mix cd. (=^.^=)
BlackKoolAid1985 1 year ago
I have Under The Pink, but my music collection's so big, that I somehow never listened to this song. Anyways, it's a great song, and Tori's ripping it up towards the end of the song. It almost makes me regret my decision to switch from piano to guitar.
TheRestlessMinds 1 year ago
first i seen this video maybe it good
pattitaniguchi 1 year ago
beccatevi Nathalie giannitrapani che la canterà domani sera ad x-factor. Elio se la rischia con un brano straniero e non popolare come gli altri giudici/concorrenti. perciò votatela cazzo!!! altrimenti va avanti la musica delle puttanelle complessate!!
VOTATE NATHALIE
MrAssemblea 1 year ago
@MrAssemblea Pelle d'oca alta cosi' anche ieri sera quando ha cantato Nathalie!
iesenight 1 year ago
I love this song...tori is so outspoken...I love that about her....I don't ever want to shut up because of her LOL
theGimmeSympathyProj 1 year ago
I remember the studio version of this song having two piano solos in the end. Is the second solo not a part of the video (UK version had only one solo as well)?
BigLibrarian 1 year ago
watchword means war cry. slogan to gain support
mememaking 1 year ago 2
@mememaking
i didn't really know what that meant but now I get it. Thanks, mate! Someones a smart cookie LOL!
theGimmeSympathyProj 1 year ago
yeah I don't know where anyone here came up with the genital mutilation connection with this song but it's WRONG....Cornflake just means "plain" and she tried hanging with the raisin girls means she tried hanging with the richy girls. the song is about 2 women fighting....it's simple just listen to it... if that is too hard look up interviews where she says what I just said. the internet is right in front of you
mememaking 1 year ago 27
@mememaking
From an Under the Pink interview with Tori about Cornflake Girl - “So Cornflake, Bells, and Waitress are a triangle together. Part of this record is dealing with the betrayal of women, between women. These three, Cornflake is, I’ve been reading Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker. It went in depth of just women betraying women, and how the mothers really sold their daughters to the butchers, and had their genitalia removed, et cetera."
HalcyonSunset 1 year ago 28
@HalcyonSunset Uhhh... Dude youre looking into it too hard.
flood1980 9 months ago
@mememaking the connection is because the song was inspired when Tori read Alice Walker's "Possessing the Secret of Joy"
lcozzarelli 1 year ago
@mememaking actually maybe you should read the interviews where Tori says the song is inspired by the genital mutilation in an Alice Walker book, it's about women betraying women and that was one of her inspirations.
fleurdelisabeth 1 year ago
@mememaking I was just a teenager when this came out and all I remember was her lovely hair and beautiful lips! ...oh well I spent many years and lots of tears trying to find a girl who could compare to tori, and I found her her!! no for real! 1999 in London but alas she had to leave and go back to the U.S. ... What was odd is that she was called Regina-she was on the 2nd year music course with me- and years later a freind of mine gave me a download of a track I recorded with her at the time.
leonmaxard 1 year ago
@mememaking It's inspired by her anger at the stories of genital mutilation. I advise you check your own sources :) She read the book "Possessing the Secret of Joy" by Alice Walker
jimmymcgarry 1 year ago
@mememaking i always thought this song was to do with her struggle through child abuse. not saying i'm right
roxasha 1 year ago
@mememaking she said it herslef!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
noreexic 1 year ago
"I read the Alice Walker book, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and there's umm, in that book, the mothers take the daughters to the butchers to have their, let's say their genitalia removed. "
hejira72 1 year ago
"And even though it's a patriarchal culture that she's talking about, and that this custom was put into practice a long, long time ago by the patriarchy, it's the mothers that take their daughters. And, what I was singing about was, it's funny how from generation to generation women really betray each other in the ladies' room." - Tori Amos 99X Radio Interview, 08/05/94
hejira72 1 year ago
@mememaking Other way around. I remember her saying that she would be prefer to be called a "Raisin Girl" because "Cornflake Girls" are self-centered and mean.
Jadensamma 11 months ago
@mememaking No, you are wrong and it says so all over the internet.The inspiration for "Cornflake Girl" came from Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, about a young African woman going through the ritual of female genital mutilation., and the song arose as an exploration of the idea of betrayal between women. In the song women are referred to: the "Raisin Girls" are "multicultural" and open-minded, while the "Cornflake Girls" of the title are "narrowminded and full of prejudice".
KARBELAEZ 11 months ago
@mememaking THANK YOU
flood1980 9 months ago
Amazing song. Wow. She was born when my mom was born and she still looks f***able. I'm a chick and even i'll say that. Amazing lyricist, singer, beautiful woman, awesome performer.
silverbaal 1 year ago
Through her interviews it's about female genital mutilation. She was appalled by what women would do to their daughters for the acceptance of society and men.
Cornflake girl is a narrow minded individual and raisin girl is open minded, more cornflakes in a box, raisins are hard to find etc.
Watchword means to reply to a challenge so the woman is taking that voice away from the other, ie, peeling it out.
Man with the golden gun means simply that men have the power. My interpretations.
HalcyonSunset 1 year ago 5
@HalcyonSunset thank you for a very insightful and informative answer. I had no idea what this great song was about. I have read quite a bit about the cultural practice of female mutilation. It's horrible! Many Muslims practice it quite a bit. The horrid custom is just one more reason in a long line of reasons to keep Muslims in check in Western society. Sharia Law, my ass! So-called MODERATE Muslims need to speak up. SILENT ALL THESE YEARS.
rockyracune 1 year ago 3
@rockyracune What a shame ! You're just ignorant... Go buy some books, and read about foreign cultures, maybe then you'll have reasons to have enemies in this world, but not before that. Obviously you've never read anything serious about history of mankind or civilization or even religions. Please stop repeating what you've heard on Fox News or read in crappy newspapers. You're being manipulated, brainwashed and you're too blind to see. Wake up !
kaboubass 1 year ago
@kaboubass, Muslims have been known to bury women up to their necks before stoning them to death; they have perpetuated the deplorable cultural practice of mutilating little girls through female circumcision; they have committed "honor killings" against daughters deemed too independent by Muslim fathers; they have punished “uppity” women by cutting off their ears and lips; and they have thrown acid on the faces of elementary school girls to discourage the girls from pursuing an education.
rockyracune 1 year ago
@rockyracune Go through history and you can easily find disgusting and hrooible things about every religions, Hindus and their terrible caste system, or catholics and a child abuse cover up, no one is right, but tarring everyone in a faith as the same is ignorant and silly
noreexic 1 year ago
@rockyracune FYI, Female mutilation has got nothing to do with muslims. Very few tribes in Africa have such customs, but these customs were there long before Islam even existed ! The point is that islam is supposed to be a tolerant religion, and therefore acknowledged the customs of the land where it established.
BTW I'm an atheist, I truly think religions are rubbish and lies. But I read seriously about them before making my own opinion. And that's what you should do before saying stupidities.
kaboubass 1 year ago
@rockyracune I couldn't agree more. Muslims are more loyal to their religion than the sovereignty of the country they occupy.
chessarama 1 year ago
@chessarama Nationalism is just as retarded and misleading as ANY of your retarded religious leanings, leads to the same prejudices, wars, etc...
feedusafetus 1 year ago
@feedusafetus You're right about the wars. But Nationalism is about defending your country against enemies foreign and domestic. You have your freedom ONLY becuause of Nationalists who have spilled their blood on this soil. Religious wars are a waste because you're fighting for an imaginary entity that doesn't exist.
chessarama 1 year ago
@chessarama how can an America though be anyway in favour of nationalism when the country was made by others invading and killing native americans
noreexic 1 year ago
@noreexic Nationalism is a philosophy practiced by many citizens from many countries. It's not limited to the US. Yes, we stole this land from the Native Americans but many countries and many religions have done worse.
chessarama 1 year ago
@feedusafetus Americans loyalty should be to freedom, individual rights and limited government. Our ideas made our nation, not the soil.
rdbiii 1 year ago
@rockyracune I can understand your dislike for some Muslim customs, but the one regarding female mutilation has to do with culture not religion. Even if some Muslim families do it, they do so because of the customs of their country/region, it has nothing to do with Islam itself (that's like calling "eating turkey at thanksgiving" a christian custom because a lot of christian families in America do it)
Female mutilation has nothing to do with Sharia.
unijade 1 year ago
@rockyracune What a horrible comment! we need to "keep the Muslims in check" ???!!!?!? really? They are not animals. You should probably go read some books and educate yourself. That is if a naive person like you even knows how to read intelligent literature.
whalewatcher321 1 year ago
What the Sam Hill is a cornflake girl?
rockyracune 1 year ago
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staciems21 1 year ago
@rockyracune i don't know but it doesn't need to make sense she's tori amos
staciems21 1 year ago
she's too amazing.
TheMartha56 1 year ago
I love this song! Tori's awesome, I've been a fan of hers for almost 20 years. Love you Tori.....<3
mothersfreakout 1 year ago 2
this is my songgg & shaggy remix of sexual healin ohh im gunna put that up here :)
PunkPrince5509 1 year ago
the uk version is better
misspunkiii 1 year ago