FUCK YEAH TORI AMOS

A Tumblr dedicated to the magnificent singer-songwriter Tori Amos, and delivers your fix of her work.

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It’s so well composed it could really be a fragment of a lost epic narrative. Father Lucifer doesn’t get enough press, in my opinion, especially considering it completely epitomises the overarching narrative of Boys for Pele: a sort of ‘nekyia’ - a mythological journey down to the...

[fuckyeahtoriamos]

hampdenclassics:  It’s so well composed it could really be a fragment of a lost epic narrative. Father Lucifer doesn’t get enough press, in my opinion, especially considering it completely epitomises the overarching narrative of Boys for Pele: a sort of ‘nekyia’ - a mythological journey down to the…

[author-stephanie-taylor]

[fuckyeahtoriamos]

my phones dying and i just got to the first post of this tumblr and i gotta say i love it keep postin stuff i feel like im making friends with tori and its wonderful. Thanks!!!

I’m so glad the first post off your new Tumblr was to celebrate Tori and all things related to her. I’m overwhelmed that you thing this blog is worthy of it! It’s messages like this that motivate me to keep providing Tori tidbits to you all who take the time out of your days to look at this blog, so thank you so much.

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Thank you all very much for the birthday wishes! Feeling the love. Hugs, t

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[toriamos]

Here we go in Ohio!

[fuckyeahtoriamos]

Hey, sorry this sounds random, but I thought you might like the artwork I did in homage to Tori the other day. :) It's the papercut on my page.

It’s gorgeous! So elegant and definitely something that I would personally allow pride of place in my bedroom. Thanks for alerting me to it!

(For anybody who is interested, the link to the papercut is here.)

[toriamos]

At the British Library event with my brother Neil! 

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The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Tori Amos

[fuckyeahtoriamos]

I just really wanted to share this. So the past couple of years have been merciless hell for me and especially these last few months. I was introduced to tori amos a month ago by my director and I have found I have such a connection to the little earthquakes album. Especially to Me And A Gun. Tori's music has been helping me through an incredibly hard journey and I jus wanted to express this to somebody. I listen to the little earthquakes album on days when I don't think I can function. It helps

I hope you start to feel better soon. I know it’s difficult, but if you can find solace in something why should it not be Tori’s music? Her music is so eloquent and whilst in many ways idiosyncratic to her own experiences, often the suffering she speaks of is universal. That song is one of the most powerful she’s ever created, I must agree. I’m glad her music is bringing you a source of comfort and release during this awful time. 

[fuckyeahtoriamos]

I'd be so happy if you could take a look at a short extract of my analysis of Pele that you can find on my page! x

I have looked at it and I’ve reblogged it because I thought it was a highly thought-provoking read that myself and other fans would enjoy. I would love to see you do a song-by-song analysis of "Boys of Pele" some time if you ever feel inclined.

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On 'Boys for Pele'

It’s so well composed it could really be a fragment of a lost epic narrative. Father Lucifer doesn’t get enough press, in my opinion, especially considering it completely epitomises the overarching narrative of Boys for Pele: a sort of ‘nekyia’ - a mythological journey down to the Underworld to learn hidden truths about the world above that one might heal it.'Don't you hear the laughter on the way down?'

She also makes reference to taking her men with her to Pele as not merely an offering for favour, but for salvation - driven by need to bring about a rejuvenation. We’ve really wandered into Frazer’s Golden Bough - and The Waste Land. But specifically about the sacrifice of her men we can compare her to the Odysseus of Pound’s translation in Canto I:'And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and We set up mast and sail on that swart ship, Bore sheep aboard her, and our bodies also Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward Bore us out onward with bellying canvas, Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.’

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Tori Amos & Neil Gaiman. Spartanburg, SC 1998, October 14. I took this at a meet & great right before a concert. This was my first time meeting Tori. I was overcome with emotion, even more so after I noticed Mr. Gaiman stepping off the bus behind her. It was a good day!

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oh! Another photo. I was putting AMERICAN GODS together in my head at the time.