Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls (2001)



Este álbum um tanto diferente da quase desconhecida no Brasil Tori Amos, impressiona pelo conteúdo. Todas as músicas são versões interpretadas basicamente às teclas, piano e assemelhados. Mas bem, bem longe de Richard Clayderman...

Strange Little Girls concorreu à categoria de Melhor Álbum Alternativo no Grammy do ano passado. Nesta mesma categoria ainda estavam Radiohead com Amnesiac e a islandesa Björk com o sutil Vespertine, mas teve o Coldplay como vencedor...

Os compositores das canções são os mais variados possíveis, indo de The Velvet Underground (New Age) até o rapper Eminem ('97 Bonnie & Clyde) passando pelo visceral Slayer (Raining Blood), tudo no piano. Também conta com Heart Of Gold de Neil Young, Happiness is a Warm Gun dos Beatles, a famosa Enjoy The Silence do Depeche Mode, entre outras de gente como Joe Jackson, 10cc e Tom Waits. Atento para o fato de todas as canções terem sido escritas por homens.

Dentre todas, a minha preferida é a de uma banda chamada The Boomtown Rats e foi escrita em detrimento do assassinato de uma garota de 16 anos por um maníaco em 1979. Ao ser preso, perguntaram a ele o porquê dele ter feito aquilo e ele simplesmente respondeu: "I don't like Mondays".

Tori Amos - I Don't Like Mondays. Linda e arrepiante.

I Don't Like Mondays
(Bob Geldof)

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's going to make them stay at home

And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I don't like
I don't like
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down, down, down
Shoot it all down

And the playing stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
The lesson today is how to die

And then the bullhorn cackles
And the captain tackles
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reason
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die, ohhh

Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I don't like
I don't like
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I don't like
I don't like
I don't like Mondays

I don't like Mondays...
No...

I wanna to shoot
The whole day down
Whole day...
Whole day....
The whole day down