(1994)
Album: Under The Pink
Testo e musica di Tori Amos
I am a minister’s daughter, for heaven’s sake! So, of course, I can see why some would regard sexual fantasies about Jesus Christ as unacceptable. But that’s part of what I’m saying in Icicle, when I tell of how I used to masturbate at home as a teenager, while my father and his fellow theologians were downstairs discussing the Divine Light. I was exploring the ‘divine light’ within myself. [laughs]
And anyone who sees that as ‘blasphemous’ can go to hell! Like I said to you before, that’s how women are paralysed, disconnected from their own power by religion. Talk about patriarchal power structures.
For centuries the Church has slammed a crucifix between a woman’s legs and even masturbation obviously is a way of dislodging that cross, of self-empowerment. And how dare anybody say that my honouring my woman-ness in that way,... (continuer)
(1994)
dal classico e bellissimo album Under the Pink
“I’ve always really questioned this whole one-guy God thing. It just seems a little too simple for me, maybe. And if there is a guy, then there’s got to be a gal or there wouldn’t be little gods. So, just naturally, everything has a male and a female. Every species- except God? That just didn’t make sense to me ever. So, therefore, I do think that the biblical God is an underachiever and that he needs a little help and guidance…. He needs a woman- that entity, that essence.”
- Tori Amos in VH1 Box Set interview about the video
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Ho sempre messo in discussione questa cosa di Dio unico e maschio. Mi sembra un po' troppo semplice, forse. E se c'è questo uomo, ci deve essere anche una ragazza, altrimenti non ci saranno degli piccoli dei. Cioè, in natura, c'è sempre un maschio e una femmina. Ogni specie ha i due sessi - tranne Dio? questo... (continuer)
God sometimes you just don’t come through (continuer)
Un Wampum, o sewan, è una cintura utilizzata dalle tribù di nativi americani dell'America Nordorientale come oggetto rituale e religioso e spesso scambiato come testimonianza e vincolo durante la stipula di trattati o per ricordare avvenimenti storici.
Anche se originariamente il termine indicava solo le larghe cinture, è invalsa l'abitudine di definire in wampum anche altri capi d'abbigliamento o ornamento (collane, bracciali, cavigliere ecc.), creati utilizzando la medesima tecnica.
Over the Rainbow (anche nota con il titolo Somewhere Over the Rainbow) è una canzone scritta da Harold Arlen con testi di E.Y. Harburg. La versione originale è cantata da Judy Garland per il film Il mago di Oz del 1939. Il titolo significa letteralmente "Oltre l'arcobaleno".
Il brano ha avuto, fin dagli anni quaranta, un grande successo. Tantissimi sono i cantanti che si sono cimentati nell'esecuzione; versioni del brano sono state eseguite da Billy Eckstine (una versione nei primi Cinquanta ed una nei secondi Ottanta), Eva Cassidy, Keith Jarrett e Rico Rodriguez e Santo & Johnny (che hanno realizzato una versione solo strumentale), James Blunt, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Satriani, i Deep Purple, i Ramones, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Burton, Aselin Debison, Impellitteri, Glenn Miller, Nick Cave, Aretha Franklin, Rico Rodriguez, Tom Waits, Celine Dion, Rufus Wainwright, i Bad Religion,... (continuer)
Album: Under The Pink
Testo e musica di Tori Amos
I am a minister’s daughter, for heaven’s sake! So, of course, I can see why some would regard sexual fantasies about Jesus Christ as unacceptable. But that’s part of what I’m saying in Icicle, when I tell of how I used to masturbate at home as a teenager, while my father and his fellow theologians were downstairs discussing the Divine Light. I was exploring the ‘divine light’ within myself. [laughs]
And anyone who sees that as ‘blasphemous’ can go to hell! Like I said to you before, that’s how women are paralysed, disconnected from their own power by religion. Talk about patriarchal power structures.
For centuries the Church has slammed a crucifix between a woman’s legs and even masturbation obviously is a way of dislodging that cross, of self-empowerment. And how dare anybody say that my honouring my woman-ness in that way,... (continuer)