I thought that for a long time before I was clued in.
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I saw this yesterday. Bloody hilarious, and she looks great.
I just wanted to check, you guys do know about “Thread tools”, right?
That’s quite the wicked skewering she’s doing there. I think it’s funny!
Re: the Tori Amos tangent… I love a lot of Tori’s original work, but I have LOATHED every cover I’ve heard her do. She sucks the life out of songs she didn’t write.
Somehow after all these years I have managed to avoid ever listening to the original of this song, so the Alanis version was the one I saw first. Afterward, I immediately headed off to watch the original video, for comparison’s sake.
Wow. The Alanis version is about a million percent improvement. That song (in its original form) defines “vapid.” At least AM added a nice melody to it.
That (the original) was at the top of the charts? I weep for our species.
Ditto. As someone who loved most of her earlier stuff, I never got what was exciting about her covers. They sound just like a Tori fangirl at an open mic, who can’t sound like anything except a Tori wannabe, no matter what song she sings.
Likewise. I never found her attractive in her “Ironic” days, but she’s strangely appealing in this.
Anyway, I thought this was brilliant.
Wow, and she delivers the lyrics as incomprehensibly as Cobain!
Watching it, I flashed back on Steve Allen reading the lyrics of a Donna Summer song as straight prose.
Also, the whiteboy version of Boyz 'n tha Hood.
I really enjoy Tori Amos’s early stuff, but her covers always come across as self-parodies, and not in a funny way like Alanis Morissette’s cover of My Humps. There just doesn’t seem to be any passion or reinvention to them. It’s just, “This is what this song would be like if Tori Amos wrote and performed it. The end.”
Wow. That was quite possibly the funniest thing EVER.
Alanis Morissette is God. Of course, fans of Dogma already know that.
The first time I heard “My Humps,” I though it was one of those stupid parody songs the radio stations do sometimes. Thought it couldn’t possibly be a real song. I love Alanis’ version. Thanks for posting it. I agree that she’s making fun of herself, too, which is great.
About Tori, I totally agree that her covers suck ass. I would consider myself a pretty big fan of her work (I own all her albums - not the singles, though), and she’s probably my third favorite artist, but Strange Little Girls (her covers CD) is one of the worst albums I’ve ever heard. She takes herself extremely seriously and could never poke fun at something as effectively as Alanis does in the “My Humps” cover. Take, for example, Tori’s cover of “97 Bonnie and Clyde.” It’s creepy, that’s for sure, but it just feels like she’s saying, “I’m doing something really important by covering this song.” I’d love it if Tori could lighten up a bit.
When my clock radio went off this morning, that was the song that was playing.
Talk about an astounding, momentary WTF is that experience.
Having just taken the time to flash on the BEP video…
I think I can actively hear the flushing sound of feminism.
I finally got to watch it. That was an really excellent parody and yes Justin_Bailey I to have long known she was God. 
For the Record, I have always thought she was pretty and sexy. I did not find her more so in this video. When she was younger and my wife was younger they looked similar. So I guess her looks are my taste is women.
Jim
Is there a reference I’m not aware of? What’s the significance of the luggage?
I haven’t seen it but I doubt it could be any more stupid or awful than the original.
Or is it just because in the original video Fergie is dancing on a pile of foot lockers?
Go watch it! It’s clearly a parody (not a serious cover), and it’s hilarious!
FWIW, *SLG * was made purely out of spite; it was an “obligation album”. Tori’s label wasn’t promoting her because they’d lost interest in her. T met with a member of the suits from her label who was also enough of a friend to admit to her that the label had the intention of “keeping you out of the way until you are so old no one else will want you.” She combed her contract for a way out, vowing that she would never give another one of HER songs to them. By a miracle, her contract did not stipulate “original” material (most do), so she fulfilled her obligation by recording a bunch of covers.
It’s the “Spite Album”. Those things are never a good idea, no matter who is writing them.
Back on topic, I posted the vid to my blog. My friends will love it.
A) Alanis’ “Humps” : Oh, man, I love it! This is just great, what can I say. I was into it all thru, the token recognition of her own foibles only made it better. And yes, she does look damn good in it (plus she seems to be having fun with it, which is often underrated).
B) Tori Amos’ covers : If that’s the story (“spite album”), yeah, it was stupid of her. The way to do a contractial-obligation “spite” album is NOT to telephone in a performance that stinks. What you do is make a noncommercial album that totally wastes the label’s marketing money… but you STILL perform up to standard.