and ignore
-the heavily armored corporate facilities
-the weapons-grade research projects
-the savage and unquestioning private army
and the family history of merciless, murderous ambition
As sometimes, Ariane is a bit cruel here.
Although I can't stand the sound of the ukulele either and I find Tiny Tim's singing extremly unnerving, he did his thing his way despite being ridiculed and bullied by the mainstream and even had some success with it (the queen had all his records and loved "tipto through the tulips best). You could compare him a little bit to the much later Klaus Nomi, but only a little.
Getting on stage as an old guy against doctor's device was his final rebellion and he had his fatal heart attack while he did his greatest hit "Walking tiptoe through the tulips" (not composed by him, that song was already popular in the 1920ies, but Tiny Tim's cover version made it really popular).
But I imagine Emily's singing worse, as she isn't the outsider eccentric, but more mainstream pseudo folk-pop...
Nevertheless, Tiny Tim and Tiny Timmy might share a taste in clothing.
Yes, I was already suspecting that Ariane was referencing somebody... and found this video.
In fact though, Bettina "Tiny" Timmy started out in my mind as a female version of her brother Timothy A. Timmy III. So the last name was already set. And looking for a good first name, the only thing that came to my mind back then was the character Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol. Hence I decided that "Tiny" should be a short form for "Bettina".
Tiny Tim did take his name from the Dickens novel.
The funny thing is, Tiny Tim did cover a lot o different songs in his disturbing falsetto voice - The Doors, Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls Of Fire), Pink Floyd (Another Brick In The wall), but he as he covered "Staying alive" from the Bee gees (in their later "shrieking phase",) he started singing in a normal voice. Obviously he wasn't as mad as often said, but did have some humour. The last I recall of him is the picture when he was lying in the open coffin in 1996, not looking much different then 1968, with the ukulele lying on his chest, later buried with him (and a single tulip) in a mausoleum. He really should appear in a comic one day, if he hasn't already.
But I fear Ariane will stick with Tiny Timmy, seeing her as a kind ofe lost little sister of the legendary performer.
and ignore
-the heavily armored corporate facilities
-the weapons-grade research projects
-the savage and unquestioning private army
and the family history of merciless, murderous ambition
call her "Tiny" because she's TOTALLY HARMLESS
I wonder if that's good or bad-bad thing.
And Tiny...Timmy? I shall call her Tiny Timmy then, hahahahaha! Go and get your ukulele, but don't fall off the stage!
"And tiptoe through the mines with me!"
So yeah, beware the mines, Emily, should you indeed accept this offer...
Although I can't stand the sound of the ukulele either and I find Tiny Tim's singing extremly unnerving, he did his thing his way despite being ridiculed and bullied by the mainstream and even had some success with it (the queen had all his records and loved "tipto through the tulips best). You could compare him a little bit to the much later Klaus Nomi, but only a little.
Getting on stage as an old guy against doctor's device was his final rebellion and he had his fatal heart attack while he did his greatest hit "Walking tiptoe through the tulips" (not composed by him, that song was already popular in the 1920ies, but Tiny Tim's cover version made it really popular).
But I imagine Emily's singing worse, as she isn't the outsider eccentric, but more mainstream pseudo folk-pop...
Nevertheless, Tiny Tim and Tiny Timmy might share a taste in clothing.
In fact though, Bettina "Tiny" Timmy started out in my mind as a female version of her brother Timothy A. Timmy III. So the last name was already set. And looking for a good first name, the only thing that came to my mind back then was the character Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol. Hence I decided that "Tiny" should be a short form for "Bettina".
The funny thing is, Tiny Tim did cover a lot o different songs in his disturbing falsetto voice - The Doors, Jerry Lee Lewis (Great Balls Of Fire), Pink Floyd (Another Brick In The wall), but he as he covered "Staying alive" from the Bee gees (in their later "shrieking phase",) he started singing in a normal voice. Obviously he wasn't as mad as often said, but did have some humour. The last I recall of him is the picture when he was lying in the open coffin in 1996, not looking much different then 1968, with the ukulele lying on his chest, later buried with him (and a single tulip) in a mausoleum. He really should appear in a comic one day, if he hasn't already.
But I fear Ariane will stick with Tiny Timmy, seeing her as a kind ofe lost little sister of the legendary performer.