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Originally posted by morgana:
i pick tori amos. what do you think of her? honestly, if you hate her, let me hear why. but i must let you know from the getgo that i'm totally biased in her favor. i think i love her so much because she's not afraid to do what she really wants to do. and for that she's musically an aquired taste. most of her songs are un-radio friendly and full of "tori-isms" that drive her fans insane trying to decipher them. but her courage to step forward and sing from her heart, you have to admire that. "me and a gun", an a capella story of her own rape, helped unlock the door for thousands of girls who felt too afraid, ashamed, and embarrased to approach their own assaults. and she's very much in touch with her fans. she's dedicated to meeting as many as she can, sends hundreds of personally written letters a year, holds meet and greets before and after 99% of her shows, and even helped start a rape counselling hotline for them because she felt so bad that she couldn't help each and every one of them.
Okay.
I will say this, I respect Tori Amos. I agree with you 100% on her connectivity to her fans, the issues she discusses, she does have some fantastic skills to be sure.
Karen will be 100% with you BTW, so I've had this arguement before. She is a Tori nut.
My personal view of her, and keep in mind that I am a sucker for hooks, is that I agree that she is an acquired taste. I own two of her albums, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink, and am fond with them both, though the latter is my favorite (though karen contests that is her worst album). I have heard pretty much every Tori song because of karen, and have to say that the album, radio friendly ones are the ones I prefer. Mostly because they are the ones with the great hooks (yeah, fuck you, I'm no purist), and hooks that let her show off her great voice and abilities. My general criticism of her in her live bootlegs and some of her other stuff is that she seems far too impressed with the power of her own voice. Granted, she has a great voice, but she'll be in a song, and then spend 3 minutes basically just wailing and occassionally banging on a piano. That is what bugs me. Maybe that's hard to convey, surely a matter of taste, but I need more musicianship, more variety, more "hooks", then just a woman going "AAAAAAWWWWOOOOOAAAAAAA OOOOOWAAAAAAAA" and banging on a piano. Things like "rolling" and other vocal game-playing should only be used in moderation, IMO, and when taken too far can really ruin a tune for me.
That is, of course, a subjective thing, and when she is playing just regular songs, like all of Under the Pink, I quite like her stuff.
And the people that only know her from like God, Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, and Boys for Pele probably won't know what I'm talking about. Those are solid albums for the most part. But when dealing with real Tori fans, you get into all the bootlegs, live albums, all that shite, and that's the stuff I don't like. That's when it becomes an acquired taste. And I can't really make that leap from her solid albums to all the rest, when she basically spends most of her time jamming with herself.
My two cents anyway. I hold the same criticism against karen in regards to Jeff Buckley as well. Just not my bag, I guess.
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