Big Wheel (Tori)

[Julie]

Big Wheel

I've been on the other side
Got my lips smacked
Now they're dry
Then you call me
Call me in
You think I am your possession
You're messin' with a southern girl
But my recipe is on with your stale bread
Yeah, it's hot
But baby, I don't need your cash
So baby, maybe I let your

Big wheel turn my fantasy
Don't you throw your shade on me
I've been drinkin' down your pain
Gonna turn that whiskey into rain
Wash it away
Wash it away
Wash you away boy
Let's go

I've been on my knees
But you're so hard
Hard to please
Did you take me
Take me in?
So you are a superstar
Get off the cross
We need the wood
Somehow you will rise
But without a tool
I know, honey, you're a pro
But baby, I don't need your cash
Mama got it all in hand now

Gimme 8
Gimme 7
Gimme 6
Gimme 5
Gimme 4
Gimme 3

I am an MILF
Don't you forget
MILF
Don't you forget
MILF
Don't you forget
Baby, I don't need your cash
So baby, maybe I let your

I'm interpretting this as a message to the record label thinking that she's not hot enough for the business today with Tori saying that she's an MILF (still hot) and not to forget it. Also, saying that she doesn't need their cash, that she's just fine in her situation and she knows that her fans will support her with or without support of a record company. It's just a very sassy, I'm The Shit song. I love her attitude and confidence in it.

[Chels]

Hmmm.... I hadn't thought about it that way but it's very very possible. I also thinks it's an anthem about how sexuality can still exist in a woman if she's a mother.

[Koalapupu]

Julie, I had not thought of the song like that at all but it's such a cool way of seeing it! It makes sense...

Big wheel turn my fantasy could actually refer to her knowing that there are some "higher powers" taking her forward in the career, and the wheels can't be stopped by record exec. pettiness or changing labels etc--she's doing what she loves to do and that's enough for her to go forward.

Also, some of the parts really sound like some young cocky (excuse the pun) thing is trying to give her tips on how to make it big, or is using his celebrity status or ego as a reason to act very righteous, to which Tori just says "Please--you're just a kid. I'm doing ok by myself AND I'm hot to boot!"

[veela]

i hadn't thought of this song in that way either. very interesting though.

could also be that it's about the industry in general. as in, she allowed the whole industry to be somewhat romanticized for her for a bit and tried to be part of it but now she's like "F that! i'm sexy and talented and amazing and i don't need all of that shit!" and she probably saw the darker sides of it and is realizing that it's not quite as cool as her fantasies may have had her believe.

[veela]

oh, and also the whole thing about "somehow you will rise, but without a tool" makes me think of the people who get up there in the industry without much talent (or "tools"). i think that she is commenting on how the industry is so much about being young and sexy and not really about talent anymore. but she's saying that she has it all -- the talent and the sexiness!