The Cornflake Girl Videos

There are actually two videos for 'Cornflake Girl'. Both are very different. To see the videos (and all of Tori's other videos) go to tori.com and check out the Tori Channel. You'll need RealPlayer 5.0 to watch them.
Version One


Video still from Xeroxed Innards

The US version shows Tori driving other females around in a pickup truck. They meet a hitch-hiker and pick him up. Then we see him in a large pot cutting up carrots (much like a Bugs Bunny cartoon). Cutting up the carrots really gave me a kick because a book about circumcision helped inspire the song.

Version Two

"The Swing" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
image from The Wallace Collection

There are two versions of the Cornflake Girl Video. In the alternate UK version of the video a painting of a girl on a swing (pic on the right) is flashed briefly. Last semester I took an art history class, so I thought it was pretty cool that I knew what the painting was. Anyway, for the rest of the video we see flashes of a girl on a swing, a twister (very Wizard of Oz-ish) and Tori caught in spider webs.

Back to the painting. It is called "The Swing" and was painted by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in 1767. When it flashed up on the screen my professor said, "Every time I see this painting I think I've died and gone to hell." That's probably the reason why I remember it. It was painted during the French Rococo. The Rococo is seen as an end of the Baroque period. It was a time when artists began to paint more frivalous paintings. Art began to serve more of a decorative purpose, and people began to put painting in their homes. Paintings such as 'The Swing' as well as still lifes were very common for the period

Well, I just thought it was pretty cool that I recognized the painting, so I thought I would put up a little information about it.

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