Your result for The "Ten Most Famous Tori Amos songs" Personality Quiz...
"Crucify"
You scored 41% on Guilt!
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“Why do we crucify ourselves? Every day I crucify myself. Nothing I do is good enough for you -crucify myself- Every day I crucify myself and my heart is sick of being in chains…”
THE MUSIC: According to the Music Genome Project, the song features mellow rock instrumentation, a prominent rhythm piano part, call and answer vocal harmony (Antiphony) repetitive melodic phrasing, acoustic sonority, minor key tonality, an emotional female lead vocal performance, sad lyrics and vocal harmonies.
THE FACTS: "Crucify" appears on her Tori’s solo debut album Little Earthquakes (1992). The song served as the fifth (!) single from the album, which was released as an EP in the US and as a single in Europe and Australia. The song peaked at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart, and 22 on U.S. Billboard’s Hot Modern Rock Tracks. The "Crucify" video, directed by Cindy Palmano (photographer and video director) and Atlantic Records, was released in 1992 as well. It includes images of Tori at the piano shot using overhead cameras, twin Toris who sing together at a counter, clothing "reminiscent of Anne Boleyn", and shots of Tori climbing into a bathtub fully dressed, then dancing in the wet dress. Cindy Palmano has said that Atlantic Records finished the video because "I took it to a certain stage and then the record company wanted to edit it in a different way". Yet she approves of the bathtub sequence: "I like when she steps into the bath and comes out of the bath. It all looks really Hitchcock, I love it." In 2003, Tori Amos released the compilation album Tales of a Librarian, which included remastered versions of many of her most popular songs. The original LP version of "Crucify" was one of them. Amos has performed "Crucify" differently live in recent years. The verses are a lot slower and have some degree of repetition.
YOU are one of Tori’s anthems. However, while the song speaks of liberation from guilt, you don’t seem to be there just yet. You are, by all standards, a perfectionist. You probably benefited from a very demanding and strict upbringing, which, in turn, has led you to adopt the same kind of attitude towards yourself. Most likely, you’ve been an over-achiever all your life – or, if career was not your designated life-path, you’ve been very thoroughly educated against treading off the beaten path. Everybody has always had expectations of you and you don’t seem to have been given much freedom or room to grow. It may so happen that this description does not reflect your image of yourself at all. Perhaps you like to think of yourself as more independent or liberated than most, but your responses indicate that you are more bound up by societal rules and norms than you would like to acknowledge. Your sense of liberation might stem from your occasional tendency to (over-)indulge in various types of behavior. However, when you do indulge, you cannot help but feel subconsciously guilty. You’ve been taught that pleasure must be earned through hard work and restraint, that emotions are to be suppressed and that, if anyone’s to blame for any bad things that come about, well, than that’s you. In your head, it’s always your fault. At your core, you’re deeply affected by self-image or moral issues and probably more insecure than you’re comfortable to admit. When confronted with temptation, your educated response is to deny it, for fear of being blamed afterwards. You (secretly or overtly) long for liberation from guilt, societal norms and the pressure exerted upon you by the opinions of others. You must learn to discern between behaviors that are truly self-harming and the innocent pleasures in life.
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