I love this is song, and the video ties it all together. Basically boy meets girl and they are falling in love. However in this story, the boy is just an arm and the girl is just a leg. Then when the girl's heel breaks her imperfect foot is revealed. The boy laughs at it and this upsets the girl whom hops on a skate board leaving the boy alone. The girl again is laughed at due to her messed up toes and she finally puts an old sock on. She heads down to the beach where the boy comes and pulls the sock off as if to say the way she is is just fine. Then they kiss and start to grow a torso and appendages- which I think is supposed to mean that,that make each other whole. It is a really sweet song and video- plus Adrian Brody is really hot (even just as an arm) :)
4 Reviews
Strange Sorta Fairlytale
chandraleila15 December 2005
Though the video has some eccentric themes and a very quirky idea, the symbolism of it matched with the lyrics of the song are wonderful.
Tori Amos is a foot, and Adrian Brody is a hand. They end up meeting on the street and it's love at first site, that is until Adrian Brody notices her toe and seems to find it funny, Tori then flees on the back of a skate board leaving him shocked and surprised only to meet up with him later.
Though the idea is definitely quirky, the symbolic meaning is about love and diversity. Overcoming diversity to see the importance of the love that is there.
Adrian the hand, and Tori the foot, fall in love. However, their differences are so extreme that she gets scared and he's left standing, only to later find themselves with each other again and the feelings still there.
In the end they become full bodies and leave together, but the main point behind the lyrics and the symbolism of the movie. Is that they are able to look past their differences (birds and the bees, hand and the foot) and still be together.
Tori Amos is a foot, and Adrian Brody is a hand. They end up meeting on the street and it's love at first site, that is until Adrian Brody notices her toe and seems to find it funny, Tori then flees on the back of a skate board leaving him shocked and surprised only to meet up with him later.
Though the idea is definitely quirky, the symbolic meaning is about love and diversity. Overcoming diversity to see the importance of the love that is there.
Adrian the hand, and Tori the foot, fall in love. However, their differences are so extreme that she gets scared and he's left standing, only to later find themselves with each other again and the feelings still there.
In the end they become full bodies and leave together, but the main point behind the lyrics and the symbolism of the movie. Is that they are able to look past their differences (birds and the bees, hand and the foot) and still be together.
Just (straightening out a few) the facts, ma'am.
bcates7030 September 2013
I wish there had been a place to comment after the confusing "review" that shows at the top, but since there isn't, I just needed to add a few details that are just glaringly inaccurate in the aforementioned "review". This is not your run of the mill piece, and I get that it might have universal appeal; but can we at least agree that Tori is to be commended for not being afraid to step out and do something some might find "weird"? I love her for that: not necessarily being weird or different for the sake of being different, but putting her artistic vision of her song into video form in an honest way. I quite like it, it is extremely inventive.
>>"A Sorta Fairytale" was never one of my favorite songs by Tori Amos. I guess it was because of its girlie and fairytale-like lyrics.<<
"OP" I am not sure that you heard the lyrics correctly. I don't find anything typically "girlie" or "fairytale" here. That is the title and the word is used ion the song, but the colors, the mood, the very abstract visuals are a huge departure from a typical Technicolor Fairytale. I hope you will listen again.
Here comes the fact-checking, & this truly irritated me about the OP's "review". I remember when the video came out, thinking it was quite impressive that Tori had been able to get Mr Brody to co-star, as he was a HUGE star then. A simple Google search will show that "The Pianist" came out the same year as "Scarlet's Walk", and "A Sorta Fairytale" was its first release. This disproves your HUGELY incorrect claim:
>>The video premiered on October of 2002 and it stars Oscar winner Adrian Brody. That was way before he won the Oscar for THE PIANIST. <<
That was just sloppy reviewing, "way before" his Oscar? No. Some things in a review are personal opinions, and that is absolutely acceptable. But the fact that Tori Amos's music is special enough to get a star of Adrien Brody's caliber says a lot about the respect her music definitely is given. I wish you had mentioned more about where people Tori's explanation & thoughts about the video, but I found this at Wikipedia:
"The two creatures show signs of romantic interest in one another, until the arm accidentally hurts the leg's feelings by laughing at her crooked fifth toe. The leg then flees by jumping onto a passing skateboard, and ends up alone on a deserted beach. The arm finds her and they consummate their love with a deep kiss. The act of kissing causes the arm and leg to suddenly start swelling up and grow their extra body parts—they finally become complete, "whole" humans by realizing their love". That kind of takes the "weird" out of it for me. I like the concept & execution very well. Tori's acting in the video is subtle and lovely. A nice moment at 1:10.
And Tori's comment about ASOF: "I think that there is a place where she (Scarlet) realizes that people come in and out of your life. Sometimes for a day, sometimes for longer. And all of them make you what you are. You can't separate these people out of you. They form who you are. Even the ones that you kind of say well... you know, I don't know if I wanna be formed by them anymore. But you are in some way. You are. That's why, maybe, you don't have to look at them so harshly because they have affected you. At the end, though, you know... it's us as individuals with our... mm... with our love for the land. For something intangible, that when soul-mates come and go, you're never alone even when you're standing just you in your shoes, because you carry them with you".
I hope this review helps, maybe even lets people enjoy both it and the song! Thank you for reading.
>>"A Sorta Fairytale" was never one of my favorite songs by Tori Amos. I guess it was because of its girlie and fairytale-like lyrics.<<
"OP" I am not sure that you heard the lyrics correctly. I don't find anything typically "girlie" or "fairytale" here. That is the title and the word is used ion the song, but the colors, the mood, the very abstract visuals are a huge departure from a typical Technicolor Fairytale. I hope you will listen again.
Here comes the fact-checking, & this truly irritated me about the OP's "review". I remember when the video came out, thinking it was quite impressive that Tori had been able to get Mr Brody to co-star, as he was a HUGE star then. A simple Google search will show that "The Pianist" came out the same year as "Scarlet's Walk", and "A Sorta Fairytale" was its first release. This disproves your HUGELY incorrect claim:
>>The video premiered on October of 2002 and it stars Oscar winner Adrian Brody. That was way before he won the Oscar for THE PIANIST. <<
That was just sloppy reviewing, "way before" his Oscar? No. Some things in a review are personal opinions, and that is absolutely acceptable. But the fact that Tori Amos's music is special enough to get a star of Adrien Brody's caliber says a lot about the respect her music definitely is given. I wish you had mentioned more about where people Tori's explanation & thoughts about the video, but I found this at Wikipedia:
"The two creatures show signs of romantic interest in one another, until the arm accidentally hurts the leg's feelings by laughing at her crooked fifth toe. The leg then flees by jumping onto a passing skateboard, and ends up alone on a deserted beach. The arm finds her and they consummate their love with a deep kiss. The act of kissing causes the arm and leg to suddenly start swelling up and grow their extra body parts—they finally become complete, "whole" humans by realizing their love". That kind of takes the "weird" out of it for me. I like the concept & execution very well. Tori's acting in the video is subtle and lovely. A nice moment at 1:10.
And Tori's comment about ASOF: "I think that there is a place where she (Scarlet) realizes that people come in and out of your life. Sometimes for a day, sometimes for longer. And all of them make you what you are. You can't separate these people out of you. They form who you are. Even the ones that you kind of say well... you know, I don't know if I wanna be formed by them anymore. But you are in some way. You are. That's why, maybe, you don't have to look at them so harshly because they have affected you. At the end, though, you know... it's us as individuals with our... mm... with our love for the land. For something intangible, that when soul-mates come and go, you're never alone even when you're standing just you in your shoes, because you carry them with you".
I hope this review helps, maybe even lets people enjoy both it and the song! Thank you for reading.
Weird Music Video
uglygelly28 April 2004
"A Sorta Fairytale" was never one of my favorite songs by Tori Amos. I guess it was because of its girly and fairytale-like lyrics. The video premiered on October of 2002 and it stars Oscar winner Adrian Brody. That was way before he won the Oscar for THE PIANIST. The video is boring but also very weird. Tori plays a foot and Adrian is a hand. These things meet each other in the street and when they meet, they somehow fall in love. Adrian begins kissing Tori and she starts to get scared and runs away. They meet on the beach again and and they kiss more and they morph and become full bodies. Some people like this video because of its poetic qualities but I felt that it was too strange and silly for me.
The DVD has a behind the scenes look and an interview with Tori in were she explains what the video is about. That's a good thing because when I first saw it, I didn't get it and she describes the concept of the video and the song. Its a good thing that at least the video has something to do with the song. For a music video, it had some really good special effects and it kind of reminded me of the Aerosmith video for their song "Pink". This music video/song was just ok but not my favorites of Tori.
The DVD has a behind the scenes look and an interview with Tori in were she explains what the video is about. That's a good thing because when I first saw it, I didn't get it and she describes the concept of the video and the song. Its a good thing that at least the video has something to do with the song. For a music video, it had some really good special effects and it kind of reminded me of the Aerosmith video for their song "Pink". This music video/song was just ok but not my favorites of Tori.
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