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HEY JUPITER was the third video shot for the album, Boys For Pele, directed by Earle Sebastian. The version of the song used for the video is actually the Dakota Version: Radio Edit featured on the Hey Jupiter UK 12" single.
The video for this emotional track shows a running little girl and numb-looking Tori within a burning apartment building. Tori is seated in a rocking chair, while the room is burning all around her. The little girl finds Tori, takes her hand, and leads her out of the building and into a car. Firemen and a crowd of people stare at the building, while a tear-streaked Tori sits and thinks about part of her that is still in the burning room. Kevyn Aucoin created the dark-eyed eye makeup look which dramatically accentuated the sadness of her eyes in the video.
I guess it's quite telling when people, especially people you know very well
people who know you'd gobble up Royal Jelly -- the most foul of foul -- before you'd put
a flesh and blood cigarette in your mouth (I'm a BLOW-BACK girl myself) Anyway, when they never fail to ask you for a light . . . MTV had a problem with all the pyrotechnics, so we had to cut some
of the fire sequences down particularly the ending. However, since this is not their's or anyone else's release, I've chosen to stand by the ending that Earl (Sebastian) and I really felt was the truth of the woman in Jupiter. A craving of hunger or burning for someone is seduction when she's
kind. When she turns, you are truly in hell and the humiliation of your need is the cherry on top for her.
Martyrs for a cause are treated quite differently than martyrs for love. Buddhist monks are
immortalized - the courage, the respect. Rejected lovers, yes, immortalized the pity
the loneliness.
--Tori, "Tori Stories, her take on the videos" promo booklet
Hey Jupiter was released in collectible form on the Jackie's Strength US single and the Tori Amos Video Compilation.
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