如果你不仔细听她的歌,你会觉得每首好像风格大多相同,虽然第一次觉得好听,但不够耐听。这只是因为你没有专注得听她在说什么,没有一字一句得读她曾经在纸上写了什么,她的歌里有怒骂、有撕扯、有尖叫、有哭泣、有呻吟、抽噎,仿佛喘不上下一口气一般,但下一秒又像是被温暖的海水拖住,那些硬刺、那些不平,她不会否认,这是她生命中极为重要的一部分,但是上面有光、有温暖的光晕,海水会把她拖到那里,这个时候她唱起来就像不谙世事的小美人鱼。确实她最美丽的那一刻就像小美人鱼化为泡沫,在阳光下流泪的那一刻。她最有名的歌应该是Silent All These Years了,被王菲翻唱为《冷战》,我个人不是很喜欢王菲,就像兔子所说的她感觉王菲不热爱她的音乐,比起艺术家更适合于明星,我一直不是很喜欢王菲,直到兔子说她吃素信佛,我又感到羞愧转而怜惜,但王菲那些闻名大街小巷的歌里我仍然找不到令我动容的东西。但托利对她的所有是瑟瑟颤抖的,她19岁时被自己的歌迷强暴,之后甚至受到死亡的威胁,你不能说这样的伤害一个人可以轻易就那么走出来了,时间会抚平一切,有些伤痕的存在期是永远。她破碎得创造出MeAnd A Gun,这首我都不忍心听,而SilentAll These Years有那种重拾温暖与信心的欣喜,虽然那种清澈到透明的苦楚依然存在,但却使这首歌更为动人了,很多人都非常喜欢这首歌。
她说:“I'll never talk about it at this level again but let me ask you. Why have I survived that kind of night, when other women didn't.
How am I alive to tell you this tale when he was ready to slice me up? In the song I say it was 'Me and a Gun' but it wasn't a gun. It was a knife he had.And the idea was to take me to his friends and cut me up, and he kept telling me that, for hours. And if he hadn't needed more drugs I would have been just one more news report, where you see the parents grieving for their daughter.
And I was singing hymns, as I say in the song, because he told me to. I sang to stay alive. Yet I survived that torture, which left me urinating all over myself and left me paralysed for years. That's what that night was all about, mutilation, more than violation through sex.
I really do feel as though I was psychologically mutilated that night and that now I'm trying to put the pieces back together again. Through love, not hatred. And through my music. My strength has been to open again, to life, and my victory is the fact that, despite it all, I kept alive my vulnerability.”
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Silent All These Years - Tori Amos