Is the Tori Amos song "Cornflake Girl" really about a commercial she did?

Question

She was supposedly in a cornflakes commercial. Is that what the song is about?

Answer 1

The inspiration for "Cornflake Girl" came from Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, about a young African woman going through the ritual of female circumcision. Amos was angered by the idea that a mother could subject her daughter to such a brutal act, and the song arose as an exploration of the idea of betrayal between women. In the song two factions of women are referred to; the "Raisin Girls" are open-minded and trusting while the "Cornflake Girls" of the title are narrow-minded and deceitful.
The reference to cornflakes and raisins comes from their distribution in a box of breakfast cereal, implying that "raisin girls" are much harder to find than "cornflake girls". Tori has spoken in interviews about being referred to glibly as "the Cornflake Girl" due to the song's title being applied to her, when she considers herself a "Raisin Girl". The mistake may be related to Tori's appearance as a young woman in a Kellogg's "Just Right" cereal commercial.

Answer 2

It is determined by how a lot I truthfully just like the track if I'll permit it smash it for me. "Rock And Roll" by means of Led Zeppelin for instance used to be murdered by means of automobile ads, then because it grew to become out it is a long way from my favourite track in any case so I simply permit it die. But "Lust For Life" I like plenty, so I pressured my brain to peer it as a track and now not a industrial (helped alongside by means of a few extraordinary reside performances on Youtube) and now rather of listening to it and taking into account the cruise and being disenchanted, I see the economic and suppose of Iggy Pop and am completely happy. They've extensively utilized the songs "Sucess" and "The Passenger" from the identical album on ads in recent years, they have to lay off just a little. Another instance is "Blitzkrieg Bop" which I heard in ads many commonly earlier than I knew who did it and simply by way of taking note of it such a lot and associating it with different stories and completely happy occasions I forgot the primary time I heard it used to be a industrial.