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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2006-06-08 08:13 pm
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She actually toured UMaine that year, if you can believe it

Listening to a particular Tori Amos song for the first time in a while, and it strikes me that the image evoked by the lyric "Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs" managed to completely reverse sometime between its publication in 1994 and today. Our moody friend Greg was originally destroying all his music, but now he's making more copies of it instead!

FWIW, discussion of this and other bits of the song here. From now on it's really quite impossible for me to hear those words and not think of this emo kid cranking away with iTunes while writing his emo fan letters, anachronism or not.

[identity profile] tahnan.livejournal.com 2006-06-09 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Others assume differently, though, like this guy, and these commenters.

(Someone in rec.music.tori-amos suggested that he sets fire to his certificates of deposit.)

So, I dunno, but I'm not sure it's obvious.