tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20639649.post2042075289789986823..comments2023-09-12T04:43:47.585-04:00Comments on Stupid & Contagious: Y Kan't Tori Not B Preetensuss?RockitQueenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185922878382068620noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20639649.post-52302770832853995762011-05-18T23:41:34.360-04:002011-05-18T23:41:34.360-04:00hear hear. well said. specially loved the 1st para...hear hear. well said. specially loved the 1st paragraph. can't stand her. she makes me want to pukeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20639649.post-37906633296581626952008-11-10T14:39:00.000-05:002008-11-10T14:39:00.000-05:00"made me want to douse myself with gasoline and tu..."made me want to douse myself with gasoline and turn myself into a human bonfire"<BR/><BR/>A phenomenally wonderful idea... go right ahead!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20639649.post-39531941679865527092008-01-14T11:33:00.000-05:002008-01-14T11:33:00.000-05:00A bit of a late reply but I just stumbled upon thi...A bit of a late reply but I just stumbled upon this blog via a Google search. THANK YOU for articulating so beautifully and amusingly everything that I've fucking despised about this unbelievably smug, precious, beyond-pretentious moron ever since I first heard her. <BR/><BR/>Tori has become a bit of a litmus test for me too - I can't ever <I>really</I> be friends with people who are big Tori Amos fans. Because it doesn't mean we just have a difference of opinion about one thing, it means we probably stand miles apart on everything else too. Just look at what she said about covering Smells Like Teen Spirit: "That song is their song. And with every measure that I was putting down on tape, I was very clear that she was their baby. She just hung around with me for awhile like a friend. Seeing that there's another side to that male rage which was being expressed, because within all that male rage there's something ripped up. There's something sliced open. I mean that's obvious."<BR/><BR/>And this: "Beck's bass player (Justin Meldal-Johnsen) suggested I do a cover of Slayer's 'Raining Blood," she says applying strawberry lib balm with her pinkie. "I was reading about what was going on in Afghanistan--the way women were being oppressed, the destruction of religious statues. And when I heard that song, I just imagined a huge juicy vagina coming out of the sky, raining blood over all those racist, misogynist fuckers." <BR/><BR/>Ugh!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20639649.post-60641677532929389452007-05-28T00:23:00.000-04:002007-05-28T00:23:00.000-04:00Tori Amos has always sat unwell with me as one of ...Tori Amos has always sat unwell with me as one of my admired performers. I remember listening to "Crucify" on my Walkman as I mowed lawns back in middle school -- an unlikely tape to mow lawns to, sure, but an album that opened me up to a wealth of music I didn't know about at the time. Remember 1992? Bon Jovi, Sophie B. Hawkins, etc. clogging the airwaves? Amos was the antithesis to all that.<BR/><BR/>Whatever the case, Tori's music has always struck me as musically intelligent (always inviting) while trying too hard to be relevant with its Catholic trappings and lyrics that aren't feminist so much as brazenly standoffish and pretentious.<BR/><BR/>While I won't go so far as to say her cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is "godforsaken," her voice supersedes her music, if that makes any sense. She is a talent, to be sure, but I have a hard time discerning her music from what she's trying to say. In fact, when I saw the early promo art for "Posse," Tori was standing in front of a house with a Bible and blood running down her thigh, I think. It's a galvanizing image, certainly -- but one that's so heavy-handed and a decade behind the curve that it's shocking in a way that I'm sure Tori's PR department didn't think.<BR/><BR/>Like many, Tori Amos is a skilled, talented performer who shouldn't be bridled by what the music industry expects. She becomes "Tori Amos" (trademark) in this respect; when I saw her perform after Ben Folds in Cleveland back in '03, I was reminded that, given a piano, she's a genuine force to be reckoned with. Packaged with a blog concept and the increasing irrelevance of her posturings, the genuine Tori Amos is at the mercy of the trademarked version of herself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com