Posted April 26, 200619 yr CULTURE BOX: Bohemian singer-songwriters My favourite singer/songwriter I believe for the last 6 years at least. While her popularity in the Uk has gone down, she's still a force in the USA and I have almost bought her entire single/album collection and have yet to find a song I have not fell in love with I'd like to see yet another direction change for the new album she'll probably have out in 2007 though, its not like her to stay in the same place for more than 2 albums! Anyone else a supporter of hers? Sitorimon
April 26, 200619 yr Only heard a few of her songs tbh, can't remember them that well either so I'll have to get hold of some
April 27, 200619 yr Absolutely, she is a real individualistic talent and she can turn her hand to some pretty unusual things. But..er... the less said about her "Rock-Chick" incarnation 'Y Can't Tori Read' the better....... :lol: :lol:
July 12, 200619 yr she is a real individualistic talent Individual is certainly not one of the words I'd use to describe Kate Bush-lite wannabe Tori I'm afraid. Hideous.
September 22, 200618 yr She is certainly my favourite singer of all, she really succeeds in everything she attempts, grand
September 25, 200618 yr she's doing something on stuart maccoine's show on radio 2. selecting tracks all this week (dont know what time as i switched it over when razorlight came on :lol: :lol:)
April 1, 200718 yr CULTURE BOX: Bohemian singer-songwriters http://www.nndb.com/people/756/000025681/tori-amos.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/Americandollposse.jpg wiki say: American Doll Posse is an album by singer-songwriter Tori Amos that will be released in the United States on May 1, 2007. "Big Wheel" was released as the album's first radio single. "Teenage Hustling" and "Bouncing Off Clouds" are being considered for the second single. Development During the 2005 summer tour and in several recent interviews while promoting A Piano: The Collection, Amos revealed cryptic details about the upcoming album: “ Without giving anything away, I have my high heels on. I like the way that feels. †Tori has also revealed that the new album is political in nature: “ The main message of my new album is: the political is personal. This as opposed to the feminist statement from years ago that the personal is political. I know it has been said that it goes both ways, but we have to turn it around. We have to think like that. I’m now taking on subjects that I could not have been able to take on in my twenties. With Little Earthquakes I took on more personal things. But if you are going to be an American woman in 2007 with a real view on what is going on, you need to be brave, and you need to know that some people won’t want to look at it. †Amos has also considered the return of the harpsichord and Wurlitzer on this record. She has made several comments about bringing a "warrior woman" out, as well as stating that the record will be a very different chapter from what has come before. The album, like all Tori Amos albums since her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel, has been recorded at Martian Engineering in Cornwall. [edit] The Doll Posse The American Doll Posse of the title consists of five different female characters that Amos "developed around the album's 20 tracks," according to US Weekly. The characters represent different aspects of Tori's own personality: “ What I'm trying to tell other women is they have their own version of the compartmentalised feminine which may have been repressed in each one of them. For many years I have been an image; that isn’t necessarily who I am completely. I have made certain choices and that doesn’t mean that those choices are the whole story. I think these women are showing me that I have not explored honest extensions of the self who are now as real as the redhead. †On her next tour to promote the album, Tori will open each show dressed as a different character. Isabel Isabel (HisTORIcal) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Artemis and is the voice of the tracks "Yo George" and "Dark Side Of The Sun", amongst others [14]. She is a photographer and is the most outwardly political. Clyde Clyde (CliTORIdes) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Persephone and is the voice of the tracks "Bouncing On Clounds", "Girl Disappearing" and "Roosterspur Bridge", amongst others [15]. She is emotional and idealistic. Pip Pip (ExpiraTORIal) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Athena and is the voice of the tracks "Teenage Hustling" and "Body & Soul", amongst others [16]. She is a "warrior woman" and is confrontational. Santa Santa (SanaTORIum) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Aphrodite and is the voice of the tracks "Secret Spell", "You Can Bring Your Dog" and "Programmable Soda", amongst others [17]. She is sensual and passionate. Tori Tori (TerraTORIes) is based upon the Greek mythological gods Demeter and Dionysus and is the voice of the tracks "Big Wheel" and "Digital Ghost", amongst others [18]. She appears to be a caricature of the artist herself, with promotional images released depicting the character holding sage (a reference to 2002's Scarlet's Walk) and with a Bible in one hand and the word 'shame' scrawled across the other, both references to Amos' recurring theme of religion and the patriarchy in her work. On the cover of this record, Tori is portraited holding a chicken/rooster - hinted pun to her previous work Boys for Pele, in which the song "Professional Widow" has the lyrics "give me peace, love and a hard c**k", and also to the song Blood Roses "when chickens get a taste of your meat" (referece to Alice Walker's book Possessing the Secret of Joy, in which girls were circumcized, and their meat thrown to the chickens to eat). Some confusion was caused by a rumor spread over the web that the Japanese word for chicken was "tori," but this word simply means bird. The Japanese word for chicken is niwatori, which literally means "yard (garden) bird". Posse Blogs As part of the marketing campaign, a series of blogs written by each character are circulating on the Internet on various websites, with fans invited to "hunt" the blogs down [19]. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. While it has not been confirmed by an official source, it is believed that the blog for the character of Santa is on MySpace . It has been noted that the profile in question is the second friend on Tori's official Top 8 friends list. A number of blogs which appear to have been written by the characters Clyde , Tori , Isabel and Pip have also been discovered. However, neither of these blogs have been confirmed as official. Fan website Undented has reported that the Pip blog is not authentic. Spoilers end here. Track listing The track listing has been officially released on Tori's site.[20] Included with song titles are the names of the characters from whose perspective the songs are sung, where available. Yo George* (Isabel) Big Wheel (Tori ) Bouncing off Clouds (Clyde ) Teenage Hustling (Pip ) Digital Ghost (Tori) You Can Bring Your Dog (Santa) Mr. Bad Man Fat $l*t* Girl Disappearing (Clyde) Secret Spell (Santa) Devils and Gods* Body and Soul (Pip and Santa) Father’s Son Programmable Soda* (Santa) Code Red Roosterspur Bridge (Clyde) Beauty of Speed Almost Rosey Velvet Revolution* Dark Side of the Sun (Isabel) Posse Bonus Smokey Joe Dragon (* denotes interlude tracks)
April 2, 200718 yr I am excited for this release, I have heard a few songs from it and I like what I've heard so far. :) Pip is my favorite "Doll". :)
April 2, 200718 yr I'm looking forward to this one. I like her music. I'm listening to The Beekeeper album at the moment.
April 9, 200718 yr :o I've heard clips of all of the songs and I love it..it reminds me of Pele and UTP combined..it's incredible. :wub: I really can't wait.
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