RE:All yours Cornflake Cornflake Cornflake Girl Aye Aye

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>>Record Collectors magazine there is a feature on Tori.Well it includes a
>>picture of Tori's Y KANT TORI READ album.The cover of the album is very
>>VERY similar to Kate Bush's Babooshka pic.Well I just wonder does Tori
>>"copy" Kate purposely or is she influenced greatly by Kate's brilliance?

>Heh....Just to clarify..she is not influenced by Kate one bit! Cindy
>Palmano who came up with the cover of LE, in an interview by The Caldwells
>(runners of the RDT Fanzine), said specifically:

>CP: Shooting time, we shot over two days. . . It was so long ago now that I
>can hardly remember.

>RDT: I know! I'm asking you to remember things that happened over two years
>ago. I'm sure you've been asked this before, but comparisons have been made
>between the U.S. Cover for Kate Bush's _The Kick Inside_ and the cover
>photo of Tori for _Little Earthquakes_. Both artists are pictured in a
>wooden crate.

>CP: I don't know what you're talking about, actually.

>RDT: I feel silly now. Kate Bush's first album pictured her in a wooden
>crate...

>CP: Did it?! I had no idea.

>RDT: When Tori's album came out there was talk among Kate Bush fans [that's
>you! =)] that it might be some sort of reference to Kate.

>CP: There is no such thing as a new idea. I'll tell you where the crate
>came from. What I make as part of a picture always is relevant. It's never
>there without having had a thought process behind it and around it or
>explored, because that's the way I work. The box wasn't there just because
>it was a box. I had the box made specifically because it was a
>simplifications of the idea of _Alice In Wonderland). Tori was de-scaled,
>hence the tiny piano, too.

>Anything that's a good idea, if it works, it doesn't matter if it comes
>from a conceptual basis or if it just works. I really rate Kate Bush, I
>think she's great. I'm sure that her album cover was good. Maybe I did see
>it. Maybe I have seen it and maybe it did come up as a subliminal thing.
>But who knows where things come from? I certainly wasn't consciously aware
>of it.

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>I hope this ends the recent last two year's controversy for a while, even
>though some newbie will come later and say "Hey look..LE and TKI have both
>artists in a box!" But PLEASE..Tori wasn't influenced cover-wise by Kate!
>Thank you! =)

Well..erm..I just must point out that I *was* referring to Y KANT TORI READ's
album cover and not as you so mistakefuly took it The Little Earthquakes
album cover..quite a difference in fact...(probably even before C.Palmano
ever new anything about Tori)...

Also in reply to woj:I think (as some love-hounds pointed out some very
direct "similarites" in certain Tori videos to certain older Kate videos)
aren't there a little too many similarities?