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RASPBERRY SWIRL was the third video shot from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel. The video was directed by Barnaby & Scott in August 1998.
This video opens with a red velvet curtain being pulled open as if on a stage. a little boy running into a room filled with strange old toys, followed by Tori in a black dress. She does sort of a Jacob's Ladder effect with her head to the beat of the song and starts off after the boy. Taking an elevator and crawling through a vent out through a painting and into a club full of dancing teens. An extremely gaunt, scary man is in the room who seemingly controls the teens, and also now has the boy at his side. Tori dances through the club and whispers something into the man's ear. It's all very Twin Peaks-ish. Finally she follows the boy into a room with a long dining table full of food. Tori's eyes light up at the expanse of food and sits down on one end like an Alice In Wonderland tea party. The boy is seated on the other end of the table and there are little girls seated along the sides stuffing their faces and throwing food. Suddenly the girls all turn into piglets and the boy smiles and walks down the surface of the table toward Tori and she helps him onto her lap. They bow and the curtain closes.
I will tell you this. Kids and Pigs mixed together with their gorging of sweets and
excited kiddie poo vomit and literally piggy poo and cake puddingie ickie oogie sugarie pukie all messied together sitting there rotting under the lights take after take and you wonder why I carry an Oxygen machine -- card holder since 94. Raspberry was one of the longer days of my life... Karen pulled in these younger directors: Barnaby & Scott. I liked the idea their visual sense and their openness to Karen's mad visions. She was inspired by an Urban Alice and Wonderland feel if I recall the treatment correctly. Kids with Red wings -- red wigs little Toris she said. This Boy leading me into a world where Karen truly lives. Every movie every make, Karen can give her version -- "A road ain't NO ONE EVER EVVA thought of pushing," a long by magical day.
--Tori, "Tori Stories, her take on the videos" promo booklet
Raspberry Swirl was released in collectible form on the Jackie's Strength US single and the Tori Amos Video Compilation.
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