Listening to the version of 'Precious Things' from TVAB, omfg...how sad is it that I come close to tears when I hear this song? But you know, I've heard so many EWF say how this is one of the songs that got them through high school, and given what my life has been like lately, I can so totally understand that....
I was always the girl who had friends but did boys like me? Not the boys I liked! They’d say, ‘She’s nice and she plays really good piano but she’s also Sandy Luman’s friend, can we get her number?’ [laughs] I hadn’t blossomed so I was seen as a rather nondescript nice girl, I guess.
Little Earthquakes is all about celebration. Celebrating the ability to laugh, weep, and scream, particularly if you have been silent for years. And so it’s about celebrating sexuality in the widest sense, including the elements of revenge. As in Precious Things where I say to the guy ‘So you can make me cum/that doesn’t make you Jesus’. Just because I’m with a man and because I’m creaming for a man doesn’t make him a master, doesn’t even necessarily make him worthy of love, of my love. And I now realize, maybe for the first time in my life, that my capacity for love is incredibly deep and that for me to give this to a man he has to fully understand, and respect what that means. Too few do. They’re into pillaging, rummaging around, doing a little Viking stuff! But most women these days realize that’s not enough, boys! And if some women don’t then I hope songs like Precious Things will help open their eyes. And, just as importantly, help open the eyes of some men.-Tori Amos
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