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Time magazine Is This the Real Slim Shady? Can the same words be both offensive
and progressive? “The
view changes depending on where you’re standing,” says Tori Amos. For her album “Strange Little Girls”, due in
September, Amos reveals that she has covered 12 famous male penned
songs-including Eminem’s “’97 Bonnie & Clyde” - without changing the
lyrics. The point? To expose what she sees as music’s pervasive misogyny by
animating men’s songs from a woman’s perspective. Amos says she invented and “befriended” a dozen different women (she has taken
publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks by the
Velvet Underground, Neil Young, the Beatles, the Boomtown Rats and more. But
it’s the Eminem track that will get people talking. “Eminem represents so much
right now to a whole group of people. And he’s a great poet. But when you kill
your wife, you don’t get to control whom she becomes friends with when she’s
dead.” |