Tori Amos - '97 Bonnie and Clyde (Eminem)

Featured on Tori's cover album, Strange Little Girls.

You know how it is when you love someone?

And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

Now that she is dead, she tries to remember only the love. She imagines every blow a kiss, the make-up that inexpertly covers the bruises, the cigarette burn on her thigh -- all these things, she decides, were gestures of love.

She wonders what her daughter will do.

She wonders what her daughter will be.

She is holding a cake, in her death. It is the cake she was always going to bake for her little one. Maybe they would have mixed it together.

They would have sat and eaten it and smiled, all three of them, and the apartment would have slowly filled with laughter and with love.

-- Written by Neil Gaiman.

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[bsangel93]

@NandCHUCK lol shes trying to show how disturbing the song really is, without the catchy beats and all

[widdlepuddyfat]

@NandCHUCK OHHH MY GOOOOOOOD! Are you too daft to she what she's trying to do? She's showing how creepy and fucked up the lyrics are.

[widdlepuddyfat]

@TheAdie278 All of Eminiem's misogyny without a beat set to it.

[TheAdie278]

DAFUQ IS THIS SHIT??!

[Imxoneofthefallen]

HOLY SHIT.

[bitski488]

@arilalala58 agreed

[pionstail]

@jdneighbo1 well, I can't really comment on that because I haven't heard the song or the album that you're referring to. But maybe she just wasn't inspired by that the way she was with Bonnie and Clyde, I mean, like I said, maybe it was the cheerful dance tune that made her think "I need to address this". And like you said, if there is emotion involved there isn't gonna be a lot of rational explanations....

[jdneighbo1]

@pionstail I turned on one of my longtime good friends to Tori's music when we were in Jr high and she became a huge fan, anyway, she showed me a copy of Spin magazine from years ago that has an interview where she expressed that she would like to cover G'n'Rs song "Patience" and that she really loved their album 'Lies'. That album has the song "Used To Love Her, but I Had to Kill Her". So i was even more suprised that she singled Eminem's song out after reading her quotes from that.

[pionstail]

@jdneighbo1 well music is a medium for her that I imagine is very real. So she responds in that way. I think for her, Eminem had dressed up a murder in a pretty dance tune because it was funny. And she wanted to strip the music away and show another side, show the irony for what it was and force the listener to interact with that. In a way, she's exposing the strong feelings that you refer to that are hidden by the beat.

[jdneighbo1]

@pionstail Justification doesn't really apply to that, it's a fictional tale, no different than violence portrayed in novels and theatre. At no point in the lyrics does he try to incite others or suggest to others that they should harm their spouse if they can take no more from the spouse. Is it graphic? Yes. Is it disturbing? Yes. I'm just suprised by Tori's reaction being that she is an artist also and knows that great music comes alot from strong personal feelings and emotions.

[LadyBGlam]

I Like Eminem'song very much & I love Tori Amos cover a Lot too ! They are both necessary to get the real atmosphere of the song.When I listen to Tori Amos song I can't help it seing Eminem's face in my mind. The cover is so perfect that I have both their face singing together in my head.this is the aim of the whole song.The words are so disturbing that I don't wanna read any of your superficial comments. Music is the secret door to my soul & not to your opinions.I LoveTori's cover madly, deeply