VH1 to One: Natalie Merchant (1995)

[@StottMikel]

A lifelong fan who has recently rekindled my relationship with her work. In these trying times, her calm and storytelling is a small fire in the darkness.

[@ikarusboxoffice430]

Agree…

[@sartainja]

Thank you for posting this wonderful interview of Natalie. The interview shows just real and genuine she is. What a blessing her music is to her fans like me. She has brought much joy and peace to the world through her music.

[@DavidJones-mo9jc]

She is scarily eloquent in this interview. She is so hard not to adore.

[@stevececardo9926]

David Jones I so agree with you. Her intelligence is captivating!

[@Jeff-jg7jh]

@@stevececardo9926 You see a little hesitation before she speaks. She is going to tell the truth.

[@tubeyou89119]

No kidding eh.... just like her lyrics, beautiful, meaningful, powerful and sincere... Love listening to her talk or sing....

[@packman5906]

Her mother painted houses to buy them winter coats..wow. No wonder she has such empathy and humility for people. it comes thru in her lyrics and music. Always one of my favorites back to the maniac days!

[@kozmicblues7758]

Well said

[@richardwilton722]

Jen Turner had only been playing electric guitar for a year when Tigerlily was recorded. Wow. Her playing on Tigerlily is stupendous!

[@rainbowwitch3069]

I met Natalie back in 98; beautiful woman. Her concert at the Orpheum was great too.

[@justayoutuber1906]

The interviewer actually did a good job - good questions, let her speak, and was prepared.

[@averyce2]

The interviewer was digging for dirt and discovered GOLD.

[@kipling1957]

I don't think so--just eliciting interesting responses, like a good interviewer. He seemed very sympathetic.

[@roseg.4354]

I think she felt a bit uncomfortable with he’s line of questions certain words he used like the word turmoil she answers turmoil? she became more serious answering.

[@024584]

Natalie,so pure so sweet. Tiger Lily is really motivating for a me. I hope she has a wonderful peace and many great blessings for the rest of her life . Dude carnival...... My soul jam 😢❤wonder also remarkable 🥺🥰

[@bobito8997]

Great interview with a wonderful woman. Also, hearing that Jennifer Turner had only played an electric for the first time a year before making Tigerlily, that is insane to comprehend. She was stellar on that album.

[@TheNewMexicoMan]

I have always loved her. That interview was 25 years ago! Now she is naturally grey and still doing her thing! I wish she would perform in Albuquerque!

[@packman5906]

21.00 mark she really had me in tears. What a beautiful soul. She reveals who she was right there.

[@DonHornsby]

Great interview. Natalie was (and is) an incredible artist.

[@unite4peace88]

Soul stirring, sensational, emotionally aware artist, the greatest artist of that kind. I'll always be a NM fan,

[@EvvynMe]

This woman!!!! 🤗💕💖💕

[@sterlinghayden4096]

I agree with her that the early rem albums had something, is why I was drawn to their music. Great interview, Mon.

[@23chiffy]

God she's beautiful

[@underock4]

Love, love, love her music and this interview, is a great insight, into the REAL Natalie x

[@kipling1957]

Natalie always comes across as an old soul, a wise soul, and definitely someone you would not want to get on the wrong side of.

[@madamemeng884]

Natalie is intelligent, thoughtful and grounded. If you found yourself on her wrong side, you would quickly realize that you were indeed, wrong.

[@kipling1957]

@@madamemeng884 you must know her well.

[@BooBoo-yv7my]

I love her music I feel her even today she's heavy

[@seanericanderson3666]

She is amazing.

[@rickthompson2520]

Best female vocalist of all time , hands down

[@redpine8665]

oh no...Look no further than Linda Ronstadt for one.

[@terrysnedigar4359]

ummm she is good dude but come on alltime?.lol

[@sterlinghayden4096]

No question Natalie came out of that break away Strong.

[@kipling1957]

Natalie and Michael Stipe were like soulmates.

[@kellyzing9951]

Just so happened they were batting from the same team and seemingly, she was devastated. Love them both!

[@kabernat]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video!

[@df5295]

"You had your fun Natalie. Now it's time to go back to school!" 😆

[@RebbePiper]

A beautiful lass....and a humble one as well... Hard to see those two attributes in one bundle..

[@BROTHER-52]

Yep so central rain an fall on me ...I agree ...totally unique to the rest of there stuff

[@frankmaitland2569]

Several times Platinum so screw the Critics.

[@judorican973]

Beautiful soul

[@sterlinghayden4096]

Absolutely right about the Gulf 'slaughter', don't ever stop writing what you feel, there are 100 million people sympathetic

[@danneumann3274]

in My opinion, She is the best female songwriter ever. Just My opinion.

[@joeyfitz9]

I was watching an interview with Stevie Nicks. She said something to the effect that leaving a successful band and flying the nest to go solo is so incredibly scary and a hard road for anyone but for a woman to do it, that's a whole different row to hoe and much more difficult than most people understand.

[@michaelbaugh2010]

I'd love to see her do an album with Stevie Nicks all my best Dr Michael Baugh

[@JeromeBill7718]

She always reminded me of someone with a tough exterior but a fragile, loving kind soul that was always doing the logical thing. She is still really good looking today.

[@evanhughes1510]

She is grey haired now and quite a bit heavier

[@TheRin02Kagamine]

Evan Hughes beautiful

[@kabernat]

Evan Hughes Her beauty never fades. She will always be beautiful and grey hair and being heavier will never ever take that away.

[@pepper1188]

No..she has a great voice..but not great looks.

[@calgary2800]

She is extremely intelligent. A part of me thinks its part just smart genes and her not watching TV growing up.

[@joehart7260]

Powerful eyes.

[@piano61485]

Does anyone else see that she's privately defensive about the 10,000 Maniacs questions? Her face changes. I have a feeling she ran from them and never looked back... she was super classy by giving them a ton of notice, but there was definitely some sort of profound disconnect between her and them. All these years later, no collaborations whatsoever, but she has worked with some of the touring musicians.... There' s no affection towards them in any way- she never says anything negative, but she doesn't say much positive. I could see her going to them with new song ideas to broaden their sound and play some different stuff, and they probably shot her down over and over, in favor of playing the same stuff within their comfort zone, and she wanted to grow. I make up a whole story in my head based off one possible face of disdain she made lol

[@YungchenLhamoOfficial]

❤you are the best 🎉🎉 y

[@oonojoe]

Her Mom was a Bad Ass!!!! Now I get it.

[@packman5906]

She does a SELFIE at 8:48! Long before cell phone cameras!

[@lucasjordan7444]

She has a very down to earth persona. Doesn't come across as conceited.

[@kipling1957]

She had the most piercingly beautiful dark eyes.

[@Jim1971a]

I can’t place her accent. What is her native language?

[@echoplots8058]

Don't know, but she looks a tiny bit mexican

[@indiglo1971]

@@cejannuzi I read some French ancestry also.

[@kabernat]

Charles Jannuzi Thank you!😊😊😊😊

[@kabernat]

Charles Jannuzi She speaks as if she was born in England but she was born in Jamestown NY. Is her accent one that she just enjoys speaking? I love it! ❤️

[@richardwilton722]

Her paternal grandfather was Sicilian, his surname was Mercante which was anglicized to Merchant. Speaking as an Englishman, she doesn't sound as if she comes from England. She just sopeaks carefully, and thinks about what she says, at least when she's being interviewed.

[@TooManyBrackets]

4:33There is no security now...we might as well all become artists...

[@sterlinghayden4096]

Thankfully you didn't "go back to school ", what a ruse that would have been. We wouldn't know you!

[@kidfly2ify]

She has the same eyes as Ayn Rand.

[@michaelfraser5723]

hE'S GOOD, really good; 'possessed' ? Yes yes, exactly.

[@michaelfraser5723]

4:56, watch her eyes at the suggestion; telling

[@adamogle8184]

Who is this guy doing the interview? He's terrible.

[@packman5906]

I thought he was quite good. She seemed to have no problems and he got her to reveal quite a bit.

[@barbaracatamaran5710]

It was good

[@rudihendricks757]

I love natalie but the worst thing she did was leave the maniacs. Her music bores me. But that voice...

[@thomasallen7359]

Tiger lily and Ophelia, js.

[@kabernat]

Rudi Hendricks I think there are reasons behind the scenes that caused her to make the decision to break away. It was probably a combination of things

[@cheranguista]

@@kabernat She was the a female with a group of musicians; she got bored, did not party ( the rest of band like to drink and smoke weed as any musician on tour do , more in the 80s and 90s) he was a spirit on her own and grew up beside some record companies were offering her to go solo; until she left; the Dennis Drew keyboard guy from 10000 maniacs spoke about all this in a podcast called Reliving my youth...

[@packman5906]

She was the voice and the sound of that group. RU kidding? lol

[@packman5906]

@@kabernat the same way that many front members of bands feel like they are the one writing the songs and singing them so why should they be in a group sharing the spotlight when they are the real star. Its why the Beatles split up. The only exception might be the Rolling Stones where all the members were epic.

[@deathlarsen7502]

10000 Maniacs was hardly some bad news all Natalie merchant any journeyman musician could play the music. The true talent which is very frequent bands is the lead singer. Only bands like Van Halen and guns and roses is a compilation of all the personalities, very rare. Usually it's just the lead singer. Natalie did not to carry 10000 maniacs band members when it's ALL her voice

[@judorican973]

Beautiful soul