I feel this song is about her early years in the music industry. Trying to break onto the scene in her own way, "girl with a piano" style and being rejected.
I think she’s referring to her really early start in music, playing at age 4 and being accepted at Peabody. She felt like she was off to a really great start, but the idea of getting signed turned her priorities, and she stumbled.
Precious Things is about trying to absolve herself of the disappointment she felt in herself for getting caught up in the popular image, and trying to make herself into something fake. She needs to sing; to bleed and wash away how much the rejection hurt, and how much it hurt when she was called a “bimbo” by billboard mag. I think she’s hoping by writing it down and singing about the pain it will help exorcise those demons.
“He said you're really an ugly girl, But I like the way you play” is the record exec or whoever, saying “You don’t have the look. And that is what’s important in music right now.” She was so heartbroken and embarrassed, she just thanked him for saying she didn’t suck at playing. She knows it’s dysfunctional that she didn’t stand up for herself; she was groveling, basically. She keeps holding on to his card, and wearing the trendy trashy stuff, hoping to make it. (If you get the chance, look up the video for Tori’s song “Big Picture” on youtube.com and you’ll see what I mean.)
I think she felt upset at how the pretty boys were getting all the attention. It didn’t matter if they were good musicians or could write; just how they looked with their cockatoo hair and butt-rock painted-on pants. “So you can make me cum, That doesn’t make you Jesus” He can deliver the thing she really wants, being signed to a label, but he’s not really anything in the big scheme of the world.
I think the “peach party dress” bit is about how she didn’t know where she fit in; she couldn’t figure out the party to be at to get into the “in” crowd, musically. I see her in like a really pretty ruffled thing, and all the other girls are in red miniskirts. She’s trying to be worth something for who she is, not as a sex object.
So, that’s my long ramble. It may be well off-base, but that’s what I think of with this song, knowing some of her story and what she’s gone through in trying to make it.
One of the things I find most alluring in Tori’s lyrics is how so many people can relate; we all find different facets we can grasp and identify with, and I think all the different views are valid. I feel that Tori really tries to make her songs something that people can relate to; even the weird phrases, people can find a frame of reference. Something in the song speaks to us, individually; and that’s one of the great things about her work.
@zipperwhipped i think the double meanings are always in her writing. she shifts time, she writes through her continuum , she weaves her heart/ romantic misfortunes with her experiences in industry as an artist, double meanings always, always Both, all, mastering words as memories linked by both embodiment and pain memory, her collections of lived time weaving together dual times/ traumas, lost wishes. . . \r\nso everything written above me, and below, and then some more after that is all true in my interpretation, for however long people \r\n continue to find these treasures.
@zipperwhipped i think the double meanings are always in her writing. she shifts time, she writes through her continuum , she weaves her heart/ romantic misfortunes with her experiences in industry as an artist, double meanings always, always Both, all, mastering words as memories linked by both embodiment and pain memory, her collections of lived time weaving together dual times/ traumas, lost wishes. . . \r\nso everything written above me, and below, and then some more after that is all true in my interpretation, for however long people \r\n continue to find these treasures.
I feel this song is about her early years in the music industry. Trying to break onto the scene in her own way, "girl with a piano" style and being rejected.
I think she’s referring to her really early start in music, playing at age 4 and being accepted at Peabody. She felt like she was off to a really great start, but the idea of getting signed turned her priorities, and she stumbled.
Precious Things is about trying to absolve herself of the disappointment she felt in herself for getting caught up in the popular image, and trying to make herself into something fake. She needs to sing; to bleed and wash away how much the rejection hurt, and how much it hurt when she was called a “bimbo” by billboard mag. I think she’s hoping by writing it down and singing about the pain it will help exorcise those demons.
“He said you're really an ugly girl, But I like the way you play” is the record exec or whoever, saying “You don’t have the look. And that is what’s important in music right now.” She was so heartbroken and embarrassed, she just thanked him for saying she didn’t suck at playing. She knows it’s dysfunctional that she didn’t stand up for herself; she was groveling, basically. She keeps holding on to his card, and wearing the trendy trashy stuff, hoping to make it. (If you get the chance, look up the video for Tori’s song “Big Picture” on youtube.com and you’ll see what I mean.)
I think she felt upset at how the pretty boys were getting all the attention. It didn’t matter if they were good musicians or could write; just how they looked with their cockatoo hair and butt-rock painted-on pants. “So you can make me cum, That doesn’t make you Jesus” He can deliver the thing she really wants, being signed to a label, but he’s not really anything in the big scheme of the world.
I think the “peach party dress” bit is about how she didn’t know where she fit in; she couldn’t figure out the party to be at to get into the “in” crowd, musically. I see her in like a really pretty ruffled thing, and all the other girls are in red miniskirts. She’s trying to be worth something for who she is, not as a sex object.
So, that’s my long ramble. It may be well off-base, but that’s what I think of with this song, knowing some of her story and what she’s gone through in trying to make it.
One of the things I find most alluring in Tori’s lyrics is how so many people can relate; we all find different facets we can grasp and identify with, and I think all the different views are valid. I feel that Tori really tries to make her songs something that people can relate to; even the weird phrases, people can find a frame of reference. Something in the song speaks to us, individually; and that’s one of the great things about her work.
@zipperwhipped i think the double meanings are always in her writing. she shifts time, she writes through her continuum , she weaves her heart/ romantic misfortunes with her experiences in industry as an artist, double meanings always, always Both, all, mastering words as memories linked by both embodiment and pain memory, her collections of lived time weaving together dual times/ traumas, lost wishes. . . \r\nso everything written above me, and below, and then some more after that is all true in my interpretation, for however long people \r\n continue to find these treasures.
@zipperwhipped i think the double meanings are always in her writing. she shifts time, she writes through her continuum , she weaves her heart/ romantic misfortunes with her experiences in industry as an artist, double meanings always, always Both, all, mastering words as memories linked by both embodiment and pain memory, her collections of lived time weaving together dual times/ traumas, lost wishes. . . \r\nso everything written above me, and below, and then some more after that is all true in my interpretation, for however long people \r\n continue to find these treasures.