Post by Julie on Mar 27, 2005 13:05:58 GMT -5
Marianne
tuna
rubber
a little blubber in my igloo
Blubber and igloos are known for keeping beings warm and I think that's what Marianne did for people. She was their comfort.
and I knew you pigtails and all
girls when they fall
and they said Marianne killed herself
and I said not a chance
She's in denial that someone is angelic as Marianne could ever kill herself and WHY?
don't you love the girls ladies babes
old bags who say she was so pretty why
why why why did she crawl down in the old
deep ravine
It's the disbelief that truly the nicest girl in the world would kill herself.
c'mon pigtails girls and all those sailors
get your bags and hold down won't you just
hold down cause Ed is watching my every sound
I said
they're watching my every sound
the weasel sqeaks faster than a seven day week
I said Timmy and that purple Monkey
are all down
at Bobby's house
making themselves pesters and lesters and jesters and my
traitors of kind
and I'm just having thoughts of Marianne
she could outrun the fastest slug
she could
Marianne
quickest girl in the frying pan
Here's Tori's description of it:
"Marianne Curtis is a girl I went to school with in junior high. She was the kind of person everyone adored, she was just magical. I had written a song about her years ago which I used to play in the bars sometimes. It never went any further than being performed, I didn't record it. Since then I have always wanted to have Marianne in a song. She died from a drug overdose when she was 15. It is not known, but I don't believe it was suicide. I think she took the wrong things together. She is very special to me, and comes to visit in my songs sometimes."
"Sometimes I hear this person's voice in my head and she's not who I really want. She's comes and meets me sometimes."
-- Tori intro to song; Boston, MA 09/13/96
"I've got meanness in me. And some of you girls have meanness in you too. And it's not necessarily something I know we're very proud of. Well…sometimes I'm not when I'm vvvvvvvvicious. And that usually happens because…ohhhh god… who knows why. But it's funny when it happens and you just become one of these like um...you know those comic books? Sven the berserker? Well, it'd be nice if I had a better understanding of it. And I think those of you that have those crazy tempers know what I'm talking about. Now some of you are at the other end of those crazy tempers, which isn't that fun either is it? Or maybe it is, isn't it, you little mmmMmmMmm, you little gimp, you! (snort-laughs) But um, the thing is, this girl I knew once named Marianne, was the absolutely, you know, coolest. She was totally cool. And yet, she didn't have this meanness in her. She had so many other things in her, you know, but meanness wasn't one of them. So, when I was hangin around her, I didn't need to have this meanness. Basically when my mother said, 'hey, um, oh my god...Marianne killed herself.' The only thing I could think of was, 'Fuck you, mom.' Because, in truth, nobody was really the same after Marianne killed herself."
-- Tori intro to song; Milwaukee, WI 06/08/96
“Marianne represents the death of the girlhood.” [Baltimore Sun - January 21, 1996]
“Marianne is based on a girl that I went to school with. I mean, actually, she's a lot of people, but there was a Marianne that I knew; that they say killed herself. And the thing about when Marianne passed was that um, when she looked in your eyes, you saw you better than you've ever seen yourself. Just the way she would look at you. Um, I never in my life saw a nasty thing come out of her. And she was the coolest, I mean, she was the coolest girl. But she never put that out so when she passed, you see, the thing that reflected the best part of you, had passed. And that was part of the grieving that happened with Marianne, cause nobody could find a good piece of themselves for a very long time after Marianne passed.” [WNEW, New York - February 5, 1996]
“Marianne came to visit me. The spirit of Marianne. And Marianne Curtis was a girl that I went to school with. And some say she killed herself, some say she died over an OD. I choose to believe that Marianne just um... to me she was kinda like a young Mary Magdalene. She, it just wasn't, the world couldn't hold her anymore. They couldn't um, understand her energy. I think anybody who knew Marianne would tell you that she reflected the best parts of you back. So when you'd look into Marianne's eyes - yes, of course she was beautiful, but you felt beautiful because Marianne never hated anything, anybody. And so when she died, you felt like this thing that reflected the best part of you had died. So for Marianne to come back again was um... It was like the second coming, for me, really.” [WHFS Just Passin' Through - February 12, 1996]
“Part of you has to die, and in Marianne it’s the whole Mary Magdalene reference, a young girl who I knew that died. There’s the whole idea of that part of woman that has been dormant, who’s been dead. ‘The quickest girl in the frying pan,’ the priestesses who showed her they were one with the knowledge and the passion...man, get rid of them!” [B-Side - May/June 1996]
“Tuna/Rubber/A little blubber in my igloo...’ For me to say that line in another way would just make it really gross and crass. Sometimes it’s just about how something makes you feel. You’ve got to go there, you’ve got to be willing to take that trip. And images, tastes, smells, objects... it’s associations. To me, these things are concrete. Some were a little more layered than others, no question about that. But I think from beginning to end it’s about a woman’s journey; and it’s a really emotional journey.” [Keyboard - April 1996]
“No demos were done for any of the songs on Pele. Basically, two or three songs on the album and many of the B-sides were written as you hear them there,” says Mark Hawley, [Tori's husband and sound engineer]. “Marianne and Not the Red Baron - the first time she ever played them and the first time we ever heard them was the performance that you hear. The whole recording process was really special for that reason.” [B-Side - May/June 1996]
: Underappreciated - Christina Aguilera
tuna
rubber
a little blubber in my igloo
Blubber and igloos are known for keeping beings warm and I think that's what Marianne did for people. She was their comfort.
and I knew you pigtails and all
girls when they fall
and they said Marianne killed herself
and I said not a chance
She's in denial that someone is angelic as Marianne could ever kill herself and WHY?
don't you love the girls ladies babes
old bags who say she was so pretty why
why why why did she crawl down in the old
deep ravine
It's the disbelief that truly the nicest girl in the world would kill herself.
c'mon pigtails girls and all those sailors
get your bags and hold down won't you just
hold down cause Ed is watching my every sound
I said
they're watching my every sound
the weasel sqeaks faster than a seven day week
I said Timmy and that purple Monkey
are all down
at Bobby's house
making themselves pesters and lesters and jesters and my
traitors of kind
and I'm just having thoughts of Marianne
she could outrun the fastest slug
she could
Marianne
quickest girl in the frying pan
Here's Tori's description of it:
"Marianne Curtis is a girl I went to school with in junior high. She was the kind of person everyone adored, she was just magical. I had written a song about her years ago which I used to play in the bars sometimes. It never went any further than being performed, I didn't record it. Since then I have always wanted to have Marianne in a song. She died from a drug overdose when she was 15. It is not known, but I don't believe it was suicide. I think she took the wrong things together. She is very special to me, and comes to visit in my songs sometimes."
"Sometimes I hear this person's voice in my head and she's not who I really want. She's comes and meets me sometimes."
-- Tori intro to song; Boston, MA 09/13/96
"I've got meanness in me. And some of you girls have meanness in you too. And it's not necessarily something I know we're very proud of. Well…sometimes I'm not when I'm vvvvvvvvicious. And that usually happens because…ohhhh god… who knows why. But it's funny when it happens and you just become one of these like um...you know those comic books? Sven the berserker? Well, it'd be nice if I had a better understanding of it. And I think those of you that have those crazy tempers know what I'm talking about. Now some of you are at the other end of those crazy tempers, which isn't that fun either is it? Or maybe it is, isn't it, you little mmmMmmMmm, you little gimp, you! (snort-laughs) But um, the thing is, this girl I knew once named Marianne, was the absolutely, you know, coolest. She was totally cool. And yet, she didn't have this meanness in her. She had so many other things in her, you know, but meanness wasn't one of them. So, when I was hangin around her, I didn't need to have this meanness. Basically when my mother said, 'hey, um, oh my god...Marianne killed herself.' The only thing I could think of was, 'Fuck you, mom.' Because, in truth, nobody was really the same after Marianne killed herself."
-- Tori intro to song; Milwaukee, WI 06/08/96
“Marianne represents the death of the girlhood.” [Baltimore Sun - January 21, 1996]
“Marianne is based on a girl that I went to school with. I mean, actually, she's a lot of people, but there was a Marianne that I knew; that they say killed herself. And the thing about when Marianne passed was that um, when she looked in your eyes, you saw you better than you've ever seen yourself. Just the way she would look at you. Um, I never in my life saw a nasty thing come out of her. And she was the coolest, I mean, she was the coolest girl. But she never put that out so when she passed, you see, the thing that reflected the best part of you, had passed. And that was part of the grieving that happened with Marianne, cause nobody could find a good piece of themselves for a very long time after Marianne passed.” [WNEW, New York - February 5, 1996]
“Marianne came to visit me. The spirit of Marianne. And Marianne Curtis was a girl that I went to school with. And some say she killed herself, some say she died over an OD. I choose to believe that Marianne just um... to me she was kinda like a young Mary Magdalene. She, it just wasn't, the world couldn't hold her anymore. They couldn't um, understand her energy. I think anybody who knew Marianne would tell you that she reflected the best parts of you back. So when you'd look into Marianne's eyes - yes, of course she was beautiful, but you felt beautiful because Marianne never hated anything, anybody. And so when she died, you felt like this thing that reflected the best part of you had died. So for Marianne to come back again was um... It was like the second coming, for me, really.” [WHFS Just Passin' Through - February 12, 1996]
“Part of you has to die, and in Marianne it’s the whole Mary Magdalene reference, a young girl who I knew that died. There’s the whole idea of that part of woman that has been dormant, who’s been dead. ‘The quickest girl in the frying pan,’ the priestesses who showed her they were one with the knowledge and the passion...man, get rid of them!” [B-Side - May/June 1996]
“Tuna/Rubber/A little blubber in my igloo...’ For me to say that line in another way would just make it really gross and crass. Sometimes it’s just about how something makes you feel. You’ve got to go there, you’ve got to be willing to take that trip. And images, tastes, smells, objects... it’s associations. To me, these things are concrete. Some were a little more layered than others, no question about that. But I think from beginning to end it’s about a woman’s journey; and it’s a really emotional journey.” [Keyboard - April 1996]
“No demos were done for any of the songs on Pele. Basically, two or three songs on the album and many of the B-sides were written as you hear them there,” says Mark Hawley, [Tori's husband and sound engineer]. “Marianne and Not the Red Baron - the first time she ever played them and the first time we ever heard them was the performance that you hear. The whole recording process was really special for that reason.” [B-Side - May/June 1996]
: Underappreciated - Christina Aguilera
