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A SORTA FAIRYTALE finds Scarlet back in LA with a man she has convinced
herself is her life's soul mate. "They take the big trip in the classic car
up the Pacific Coast highway and across the desert. But as they go on, the
masks drop away and they discover the fantasy they have of each other isn't
who they really are." They end up back where they started and Scarlet
leaves. "They did care. But somehow they lost each other. Which is why it's
only A Sorta Fairytale..."
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"I think that there is a place where she [Scarlet] realizes that people come in and out of your life. Sometimes for a day, sometimes for longer. And all of them make you what you are. You can't separate these people out of you. They form who you are. Even the ones that you kind of say well...you know, I don't know if I wanna be formed by them anymore. (laughs) But you are in some way. You are. That's why, maybe, you don't have to look at them so harshly because they have effected you. At the end, though, you know...it's us as individuals with our...mm...with our love for the land. For something untangible, that when soulmates come and go, you're never alone even when you're standing just you in your shoes, because you carry them with you."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
"[Scarlet's] in love at that point," she explained, "and [the couple is] taking that classic trip up [Highway] 101 and [Highway] 1 on their way to San Francisco, and they cut off because they are having the trip of their life, and they go out West to the Southwest. And that's where the masks come down for them. Who they thought each other was is not who they really are. It's one of those things where it's not about not having enough love for each other, it's just that you don't know why you can't make it work. You don't know how you are losing each other and you're sitting right in front of each other in plain view, but you can't seem to make it work. And that's why it's a 'sort of' fairy tale, because she wasn't a princess."
--Tori; MTV.com News, 09/23/02
"Well, she's [Scarlet] been to the porn awards with her friend Amber in Vegas, and she didn't want to go, but needed to go with her friend. They sort of part ways in Nevada, and Scarlet goes to Alaska to see the northern lights and give them a message from Amber Waves how's really at this point on her knees, and there's not a lot of her left. So as a friend, Scarlet goes to take this message and they give her one to give to Amber back. So once she delivers the message, she sets off on this trip with this love, her soul mate, up the 101 and they're falling in love, and they decide to go deeper and so they go to the desert. He decides she isn't his fantasy and she looks at him and says 'Well I didn't know that you didn't see me the whole time'."
--Tori; BBC Radio2 w/ Lynn Parsons, 10/14/02
"By the end of it -- once they masks have come down and they see who each other really is, not the fantasy of who each other is -- then, they decide that they don't know why... 'cause there's enough love, but there's not enough something else and they don't know what that something else is. So, they part. And, that's why it's only 'A Sorta Fairytale'."
--Tori; MIX 100FM website
I: ..Driving along the Ventura? Would that be the freeway?
T: Yes, I did it many times. I lived here for almost eight years.
I: That's the 101. So talk about this song; go ahead.
T: Well, this is the second song on the album.
--Tori; Star 98.7 Interview, 08/19/02
I: You directly attack Oliver Stone- the song says that he deserves to be slapped. What will he say about that?
T: He's either got a sense of humour or he hasn't. He represents certain things. He then wanted to use my song Me And A Gun for his film Natural Born Killers, and he had many reasons, but in the end I couldn't accept them. I have this problem with Hollywood directors who want to play god. I don't like that attitude with priests, presidents or others either. I just had to reply to that. Now I keep meeting Oliver by chance, on airplanes and such. Weird. We both went so different ways and yet they keep overlapping again and again.
-- Tori; Rolling Stone (German), Oct 2002
A "radio version" or "radio edit" of A Sorta Fairytale has edited lyrics.
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