David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+ rating, observing 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. Reviews of Tigerlily were mostly positive. If it gave her some solace, I have to be grateful.' Reception It's very odd to think of the places my music can go once it leaves my hands. 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. Aileen Wuornos led a tortured, torturing life that is beyond my worst nightmares. '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. Īileen Wuornos had 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. The song 'River' is a tribute to River Phoenix. 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. 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.

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