My calendar says it’s the first day of Winter today, so I figured I would spotlight this Tori Amos song. I have only talked about one other music video of hers so far. That being Silent All These Years. Basically everything I said about that music video applies to this one too. The only difference is that this time director Cindy Palmano populated the music video with coming-of-age imagery. It is even as misleading in that it also primarily sells Amos as a the girl with a piano, which is how they marketed her at the beginning. It looks like it took till Cornflake Girl and/or God, depending on whether you look at mvdbase or IMVDb, before they hit on the kind of music videos that get across what you are in for with Tori Amos.
To my knowledge, they continued doing work together photo-wise into the mid-to-late-90s even though they stopped doing videos after 1994, according to mvdbase. It makes sense since while Palmano’s videos are certainly beautiful to look at, they really showcase her talents as a photographer rather than capturing Tori using the medium of a music video. To be fair, her first album is different from her subsequent stuff, so it is kind of like complaining that a writer isn’t describing Francois Truffaut correctly when the only movie of his they have seen is The 400 Blows (1959).
For whatever reason, IMVDb has quite different information about her early videos. IMVDb says 1991 for Silent All These Years while mvdbase says 1993. I am trusting IMVDb since Silent All These Years was released as a single in 1991. It makes more sense to me.
Enjoy!
Through the Shattered Lens 
Love Tori Amos and this song is hauntingly beautiful. I never knew her early vids were directed by the same person but it make sense now that I think about it Cindy Palmano does have a good sense of style for what she brought to these tracks
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Your comment made me remember the cover of the album Little Earthquakes, so I pulled it from my collection. There are actually stills from Silent All These Years on the sleeve of the album.
I can’t disagree with anything you said. However, it does make me think that I should do the music video she did with her previous band called Y Kant Tori Read. It captures her better to me even if it doesn’t have the substance of her solo material. She even performs some of the songs off of the album live such as Cool On Your Island. On that live album I have, she follows it up with a short lecture about hairspray and that she doesn’t care if people in the audience don’t remember before going into Bon Jovi’s Livin’ On A Prayer.
It is as if they swung from one extreme with Marty Callner of Twisted Sister’s We’re Not Gonna Take It to Cindy Palmano before settling on a middle ground. She’s a lot more fun and lively then the Palmano videos get across, which shouldn’t bother me cause they are gorgeous, but it does. Oh, well.
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