"Cornflake Girl" by Tori Amos is one of those songs that didn't enter my radar until recently, but once it entered it never left me.
The maddeningly beautiful piano intro and its progression within the song conquered for me good; and Amos lyrics certainly fit well with the
composition. Two music videos made for it: the UK and the US. UK is by far the better clip as it pays a wildly crazed cinematic tribute to
the classic "The Wizard of Oz" and turned into something darker than the "children story", far more elaborated than the American version with
the girls in the pickup truck trying to live their ideal world without men.
Small portion of colors to reflect the real-life, the dominating black-and-white scenario is the world of Dorothy/Tori where tornadoes,
flying houses, objects, bizarre imagery and the girl are all put against a pitch-black blackground, that has some "Eraserhead" vibes, and the girl
even gets attacked by a bully girl - if we go with the song's flow that bully was the girl's best friend, as it relates to the feelings of women
betraying each other.
The presentation of everything is filled with art, terror, careful and symbolistic cinematography and art-direction, and there are thousands
of elements to be noticed in the "story" and transitions that one feels overwhelmed with everything. And the song, the song, the song! Can't stop
listening to it. One of the greatest 1990's classic songs that echoed with more intensity and relevance in the following decades. 10/10.
