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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 03:11 PM Sep 2017

Tori Amos: 'Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame'

A gargantuan truck fills the driveway of Tori Amos’s Cornwall home. The surrounding countryside is tranquil – verdant hills, stone farm buildings, golden crops swaying in the late August sun – but a throng of activity greets us at the home/recording studio Amos shares with her producer husband, Mark Hawley. The van and attending crew, she says, curled up on the sofa in her library, are here to collect one of her beloved Bösendorfer pianos for an impending European tour. “She’s being put in her case,” explains Amos. “Hopefully with a nice blanket.”

Amos was raised in Maryland, a Led Zeppelin-loving daughter of a minister, and self-taught pianist who would jilt both church and conservatoire to forge her own sound in the 90s: wildly original, taboo-busting piano pop. She cut through grunge’s squall, playing two, sometimes three, piano keyboards simultaneously, while wearing 7in stilettos. Her music is celebrated enough to warrant the occasional benevolent ribbing – the animated series Bob’s Burgers recently had an Amos-esque woman using lyrics about an oil spill as a metaphor for her vagina – and has been an indelible influence on today’s musicians, acknowledged by Taylor Swift, Perfume Genius and Annie “St Vincent” Clark.

Native Invader, released this week, is Amos’s 15th studio album, some 25 years on from her solo debut Little Earthquakes. She is feeling “fortunate, blessed” about this benchmark. “But writing is still nerve-racking, mostly because I’m waiting for the muses to turn up.” She has jump-started the process in previous years; a penchant for hallucinogens, for example, is well documented. “Oh, I haven’t done those in a while,” says the 54-year-old. “I’m leaving that to the youth now.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/07/tori-amos-menopause-is-the-hardest-teacher-ive-met-harder-than-fame



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Tori Amos: 'Menopause is the hardest teacher I've met. Harder than fame' (Original Post) turbinetree Sep 2017 OP
I'm rec-ing this just because she plays a Ilsa Sep 2017 #1
I adore Tori Amos! demmiblue Sep 2017 #2
Your Welcome turbinetree Sep 2017 #3
wonderful long article and the fact they used the menopause line is typical OKNancy Sep 2017 #4
Dang BBG Sep 2017 #5

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
1. I'm rec-ing this just because she plays a
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 03:16 PM
Sep 2017

Bösendorfer. I was serenaded by a boyfriend who had a mortgage on his Bösendorfer. Really. Like a house payment. Incredible sound.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
4. wonderful long article and the fact they used the menopause line is typical
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 04:35 PM
Sep 2017

of click bait journalism. It was such a small part of what she had to say.

BBG

(2,476 posts)
5. Dang
Thu Sep 7, 2017, 05:43 PM
Sep 2017

Got tix for her tour this fall and overbooked a trip out of town that weekend. Airfare isn't as fungible as concert tix so StubHub here I come.

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