Word: tory
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...album, piano-wielding diva Tori Amos has created distinct personalities for each of her 12 songs, complete with photos featuring Amos with 12 different hairstyles, costumes and names for each of her incarnations, with enigmatic phrases by Neil Gaiman to explain them: The heartless vamp of “I’m not in love” is labeled, “She forgets him utterly and forever;” while the serenely blonde figure of death from “Time” reminds: “One day you will open your eyes...
...album has music pundits slightly mystified—some have been describing Strange Little Girls as an album about the portrayal of women in pop music, and there may well be truth to that interpretation, but it is not nearly as simple or polemical as that. Tori has relegated her band to the background after their triumphant arrival on her 1999 release To Venus and Back. On Girls, she picks her way through a wash of reverberating keyboards, as on the Velvet Underground quiet-revolution opener “New Age,” and even some solo piano work...
...first single from the album, the Stranglers’ “Strange Little Girl,” is the sort of quirky, electronic-influenced rock that Tori perfected on Venus, and will undoubtedly turn quite a few heads with its slick, sexy, guitar-driven hook. However, those who are drawn by this track alone will be deceived; though “Rattlesnakes” borders on the same territory, the bulk of the album explores radically different, uncharted ground. Her take on Tom Waits’ “Time,” is, despite the quantum difference...
...same words be both offensive and progressive? "The view changes depending on where you're standing," says Tori Amos. For her album Strange Little Girls, due in September, Amos reveals that she has covered 12 famous male-penned songs--including Eminem's wife-killing ode '97 Bonnie & Clyde--without changing the lyrics. The point? To expose what she sees as music's pervasive misogyny by animating men's songs from a woman's perspective. Amos says she invented and "befriended" a dozen different women (she has taken publicity photos dressed as all of them), through whom she sings tracks...
...Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that ABC is running the miniseries of the novel in the spring (Demi Moore might play the Wicked Witch of the West in this revisionist Wizard of Oz). Shouldn't I get points for picking hot topics?... A WB press agent gushed, "Tori Spelling is the next Lucille Ball." Where's the Kaopectate?... Blah blah UC presidential candidates blah blah. I'm tired of presidential elections. They're sooooo last month... I keep thinking about the budding romance of Ben Affleck and Shoshanna Lowenstein and my stomach starts to hurt. After...