I’m on Fire - burning up the list by appearing on 19 ballots, this Bruce Springsteen cover peaked at #3. Five people had it at their #10 spot, and it earned a total of 250 points.
Posted on April 10, 2012 at 5:01 PMfrom alex of boycotting trends (blogspot):
On which Tori takes that most familiar of rock music topics - the horny guy’s come-on - and turns up the heat, not ironizing the song’s lustful appeal but simply *inhabiting* it and thereby transforming it into one woman’s expression of desire for another. The result is one of her sexiest-ever covers. Or as Christie Keith puts it: “Bruce Springsteen may be an honorary lesbian just for writing so many love songs that become even hotter when sung by a woman. Add to that the liquid sex of Tori Amos’ voice growling, ‘Hey, little girl, is your daddy gone, did he go out and leave you all alone?’, and it’s possible lesbian cover song nirvana is at hand.”
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