Tori & Alanis 5 1/2 Weeks Commercial August 1999

Here are some screen shots from the Tori & Alanis Best Buy Commercial for the 5 1/2 Weeks Tour. You can read more about the commercial below the photos, and read a complete transcript of what Tori and Alanis say courtesy of Kris Kelly. The commercial has been seen so far on MTV, VH1, and ESPN.

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Transcript Of The Commercial

From Kris Kelly:

It took me long, but I just transcribed the Tori/Alanis new commerical that aired on MTV after the BLISS video....it's weird, it just clicks back and forth to Tori and Alanis's face saying random things.hehe..here it is:

ALANIS: I worry about
TORI: Pounds and pounds
ALANIS: Sprinkled in little
TORI: Sheep's eyeballs
ALANIS: On my head like this
TORI: But I don't know
ALANIS: Based on
TORI: Whatever that is
ALANIS: All over the world
TORI: Lining my
Alanis: Snakes in the video
TORI: I need a few more
ALANIS: Restriction
TORI: Creation
ALANIS: Choice
TORI: Lip gloss
ALANIS: There just had to be
TORI: Don't worry
ALANIS: what I've experienced
TORI: Taught
ALANIS: Life to be like
TORI: My grandfather
ALANIS With her head
ALANIS: I would like to be
TORI: Hellen Hughes
ALANIS: Limits
TORI: Yourself from
ALANIS: What I've seen
TORI: Cuss
ALANIS: That's so hard!

(display of mp3.com logo, best buy logo, and Tori and Alanis's names along with "5 1/2 Weeks Tour)

ANNOUNCER: See what happens when Best Buy and mp3.com connect you with Alanis Morrisette and Tori Amos!

Other Details & Commentary

Tait Schleisman saw the following blurb in the Variety section of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper on Friday, July 23, 1999. "Alanis Morissette and Tori Amos were in the Twin Cities Wednesday to shoot a commercial for their joint tour, which is cosponsored by Eden Prairie-based Best Buy." Alanis later mentioned doing this in an interview that appeared on the Late Show With David Letterman web site, in the "Live With Letterman" section:

Q: You're going on tour with Tori Amos. Looking forward to that? Have the two of you met before?

Alanis: I finally got to know Tori yesterday. We spent the whole day together filming a commercial for Best Buy. It's not like any commercial you're used to seeing. We had a great time. We just sat there and interviewed each other. I asked her questions about God and capital punishment and whether it was skirts or slacks for the next millennium. I think it's skirts. We've come full circle.

Richard Handal reports that he saw this commercial air on ESPN late at night on Wednesday, August 11. Toriphile Alex saw it too on VH1 and reports:

Tell everyone to keep an eye out for the commercial that Tori and Alanis shot...it aired for what I think is the first time tonight on VH1. Basically it consists of Tori and Alanis talking to each other on couches opposite each other in a blue room...many rapid fire close ups alternating between the two. The conversation is actually edited into very quick soundbites, so it may take a few viewings to catch exactly what they say (I did hear Alanis mention "the snakes in the video") It's a very cool, engaging commercial.

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