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...Tori Amos. They’re offering us interview time.” It dawned on me that he was on the phone with the publicist at Atlantic Records, whom I’d asked him to call. I needed an advance copy in order to review Tori Amos’ latest album...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of a Toriphile | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...album was Amos’s Little Earthquakes, and the song was “Me and a Gun,” an a capella recollection of Amos’ rape at gunpoint. When I was in seventh grade, my sister and I counted the days until our first Tori Amos concert—which we attended with our mother, no less—and were introduced to a fervent fan base, whom Amos had dubbed “Ears With Feet.” Most prominent were the young, white women aping Amos’ flaming hair sporting fairy...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of a Toriphile | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...thought for a moment. “About a thousand dollars,” he said. I asked him how long he’d been listening to Tori Amos. “Since “Bliss,” he said, referring to a single released...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of a Toriphile | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...inarticulately angry lyrics are intoned in almost religious fashion. Again, the link to portrayals of women, or anything very much beyond sinister apocalyptic omens, is vague at best; the song is perhaps more a tribute from Tori’s days in her early metal band Y Kant Tori Read. The album’s closing track is a gender-bending version of Joe Jackson’s “Real Men,” in which the question about “who the real men are” becomes yet more doubtful in Tori?...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tori! Tori! Tori! | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...unlikely to win Amos legions of new fans, though those who are prepared to take the bizarre trip through her wires, down avenues of fancy and musical exploration, will be rewarded with some of the more intriguing music to emerge for quite a while. Intense, melodramatic and sometimes obscure, Tori Amos still leaves you vaguely wishing you were allowed to be as strange a girl...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tori! Tori! Tori! | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

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