Gratuitous Tori Amos Wonderment Thread

I mean, what's left to say? She's amazing

She's only known as a pianist, but she has no problem setting the piano aside and emphasizing percussion and her voice, and she is the first singer who taught me that 'good singing' doesn't mean only 'sounding pretty.' It's about expressive performance, authentic emotion, affecting you deeply.

And she really thinks about both music and lyrics. When she covers a song, she gets to the heart of it.

This was a B-side from 1998.

I didn't know it was a cover when it came out. To me, this was a song about gambling and other addictions that sounds dark and grinding and kind of desperate, and the lyrics and the unusual music match perfectly.

When I finally heard the original Steely Dan version, the musical mismatch with the lyrics threw me.

Love her and she was the definitive live performer. Just an underrated genius and a true musician.

None of her fans want t admit it of late, but her voice is utterly gone- Considering how relatively healthy of a lifestyle she has lived, I am very surprised by the degradation of her voice. She has lost all vocal power -She cannot carry a note in tune and sounds like she has a chest cold or something - all the time.

Its horribly sad and I am surprised that she is still touring sounding like this.

I have read that due to hormones, female's voice is particularly affected after menopause.

R3 Her voice is not 'utterly gone,' but it has suffered a great deal of loss of range and fullness.

I saw her Ocean to Ocean tour a year ago and her voice somehow sounded better than it has sounded in a decade. She got her high range back somehow and her low notes are richer than ever, but she lost much of the middle of her range.

I read that she had to have some kind of throat surgery that affected her vocal cords, and I suspect this may have been a part of the depression she went through around age 50.

Her albums Native Invader and Ocean to Ocean are both *great* albums, with her songwriting prowess returning, and her voice sounds better on both than it did on many prior albums. I don't know if it's due to vocal therapy or recording techniques. But she did sound better live last year than I have heard her sound in a decade.

She definitely doesn't have the vocal ability she did when she was younger, but her singing is still moving and utterly unique. I was excited about her Light Princess musical years ago, but hearing theatrical performers with dramatic stage voices dramatize her lyrics really sucked the life out of them. She recorded two of the songs as ballads and they were soooooo much better even though her voice technically was greatly inferior to Rosalie Craig's voice.

R4- I LOVE Native Invader- Its absolutely wonderful.

I have never once heard that Tori had vocal surgery? Like nowhere- ever.. are you sure?

This would explain the immense decline from 2017 to 2022.. (Even in 2017 it was quite noticeable, but she could still sing in tune, and she did not have that chest cold sounding raspiness. Her raspiness sounds like damage.

I truly respect her- this is just my impression...

R5 I'm not sure, no. I read a discussion about it, I think, on Facebook.

She has had some significant health problems. She always used to talk about terrible jaw pain from TMJ and I think she had to have a major surgery to change her bite and around the same time is when she got "new teeth," replacing her wonderfully weird jagged ones with a "perfect smile." After that, someone said that she has had some other longtime health issues and had to have some sort of surgery that affected her singing and it devastated her. But I don't have any evidence of that.

I get her. And I don’t like her.

Watching this. Love it