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Tigerlily is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, released on June 20, 1995, following her departure from the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs.
Tigerlily peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001. It contained three singles that charted on the Billboard Hot 100: "Carnival" (No. 10), "Wonder" (No. 20), and "Jealousy" (No. 23).




Re-releases


Tigerlily was re-released in 1996 as a 2-CD set, with the second CD containing a remix of the song "Jealousy" and live performances from her tour.
In 2015, to commemorate the album's 20th anniversary, Merchant rerecorded the songs from the album and released them as Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings.




Background


The song "River" is a tribute to River Phoenix.
Aileen Wuornos requested that Merchant's song "Carnival" be played at her funeral, and the song later appeared in the credits of the 2003 documentary Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer. Merchant later commented:

"When director Nick Broomfield sent a working edit of the film, I was so disturbed by the subject matter that I couldn't even watch it. Aileen Wuornos led a tortured, torturing life that is beyond my worst nightmares. It wasn't until I was told that Aileen spent many hours listening to my album Tigerlily while on death row and requested "Carnival" be played at her funeral that I gave permission for the use of the song. It's very odd to think of the places my music can go once it leaves my hands. If it gave her some solace, I have to be grateful."




Reception



Among positive reviews, J. D. Considine commented in Musician that Tigerlily shows "a far greater stylistic range than the Maniacs" and "Merchant conveys more passion and personality than in the past", while Mark Cooper of Mojo highlighted "her flair for narrative songwriting and that habitual chafing between the sober and the sensual, sense and sensibility." Los Angeles Times critic Jean Rosenbluth wrote that Tigerlily "presents Merchant as considerably more mature and womanly than the Maniacs gave her room to be" and "marks positive progress for a talent that is still in bloom." In The Guardian, Caroline Sullivan opined that Merchant had surpassed her work in 10,000 Maniacs with an album of "11 moving lyrics, sung with great grace", singling out "Beloved Wife" as possibly "the most touching thing committed to disc this year." Writing for Entertainment Weekly, David Browne observed that, "with its unadorned, keyboard-based arrangements, Tigerlily is more sparely produced than anything Merchant did with 10,000 Maniacs, yet the starkness works in her favor ... The hooks on this album are subtler, and ultimately Merchant sounds both more natural and affecting." While Browne expressed a desire for Merchant to "lighten up," he also praised her "uncompromising vision." Brad Webber of the Chicago Tribune felt that Merchant's "characteristic trills and unique vocal stylism paint Tigerlily with bravura and make amends for some tepid songwriting."
Al Weisel, however, said in Rolling Stone that Merchant's voice had "nearly deteriorated into self-parody", adding, "With its surfeit of blindly self-obsessed lyrics and lulling lite-rock arrangements, the bulk of Tigerlily provides a perfect soundtrack for the Prozac nation." Elysa Gardner panned it in Spin as a "predictably tasteful effort" that "makes 10,000 Maniacs actually sound like ten thousand maniacs", while Q's Phil Sutcliffe found it lacking in "conviction or soul", and NME's Mark Sutherland deemed it "nice" yet mostly "routine reflection". Critic Robert Christgau left no comment beyond an indifferent grade of "neither".
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine concluded that "the added emphasis on rhythmic texture works, creating an intimate but not exclusive atmosphere that holds throughout the record, even when her occasionally sophomoric, sentimental poetry threatens to sink the album in the weight of its own preciousness". Tom Moon, in the 2004 Rolling Stone Album Guide, compared the songs on Tigerlily to the "ambitious, unconventional material" Merchant wrote as a member of 10,000 Maniacs, "which made good use of her porcelain voice and exotic lyrical imagery."




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Notes

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Tiger lily or Tiger Lily may refer to:




Plants


Lilium, a genus of plants in the family Liliaceae
Lilium lancifolium, a lily native to northern Asia and to Japan
Lilium bulbiferum, a lily native to Europe
Lilium catesbaei, a lily species native to south-eastern North America
Lilium columbianum, a lily native to western North America
Lilium henryi, an orange lily native to central China
Lilium superbum, a lily native to eastern and central North America
Daylilies, plants of the genus Hemerocallis, often called "golden needles", widely used in Asian cooking
Hemerocallis fulva, a daylily species native to Asia, and widely naturalized in North America




People


Tigerlily (DJ) (born 1992), Australian DJ
Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof (born 1996), English-Australian singer-songwriter
Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913), American suffragist, reformer, and writer




Fiction


Tiger Lily (Peter Pan), a Native American princess character from Peter Pan
Tiger Lily, a character from the Rupert Bear comics
The tiger-lily, a "live flower" in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
Tiger Lily White, stage name of a fictional burlesque dancer portrayed by Lucille Ball in the film Dance, Girl, Dance
Dr. Berenice "Tigerlily" Jones, a minor character in the webcomic Skin Horse by Jeffrey Wells and Shaenon Garrity
Tigerlily Sakai, a character from the Stitch! anime




Music


The Tiger Lillies, a 1989 London band
Tiger Lily (band), a 1970s British glam rock band
Tigirlily Gold (formerly Tigirlily), an American country music duo
Tiger Lily, a 1980s band founded by Laura Molina
Tigerlily, a 1995 album by Natalie Merchant
Tigerlily (Lillix album), 2010
"Tiger Lily", a song by Luna from the 1994 album Bewitched
"Tigerlily", a song by Bertine Zetlitz from the 2000 album Beautiful So Far
"Tiger Lily", a song by The Bluetones from the 2000 album Science & Nature
"Tiger Lily", a song by Matchbook Romance from the 2003 album Stories and Alibis
"Tigerlily", a song by La Roux from the 2009 album La Roux
"Tigerlily", a song by Tara VanFlower from the 2005 album My Little Fire-Filled Heart




Places


Tiger Lily, Alberta, Canada
Tiger Lily, California, a place in El Dorado County, California, United States




Other


The Tiger Lily, a 1919 silent film drama
17768 Tigerlily, an asteroid
Tigerlily (clothing), a clothing label owned by Billabong
Tigerlily (given name), the personal name
Tiger Lilies, an 1867 novel written by Sidney Lanier
What's Up, Tiger Lily?, a 1966 film by Woody Allen




See also


Leopard lily (disambiguation)

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