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TORI AMOS IS THE COOLEST G-URL ON THE WEB
February 1, 1996 From Correspondent Mark Scheerer NEW YORK (CNN) -- Tori Amos is a musician with a unique style that has won
her a wide following in record stores and on the Internet. In a time when strong, spiritual, angry women are selling more records and
winning more awards than ever before, Amos’ newest album, “Boys for Pele,” is
likely to attract some new fans as well as be the main topic of a growing
number of home pages. Her voice is sultry and her music is often shocking. When she describes her
newest album, it sounds mouth-watering. “It makes
me think of mushroom pasta with dripping garlic bread and butter, not
margarine, no margarine on this record, it’s all butter,” Amos says. “Boys for Pele” is Amos’ third major label album since the critically hailed
“Little Earthquakes” in 1992, featuring such favorites as “Silent All These
Years.” “’Little Earthquakes,’ in truth, was much more
like a diary form of things that have happened in my whole life, finding my own
voice. This is the record where I declaim my own fire, instead of stealing from
the men in my life, which I’ve done in the past,” Amos says. On this album, she steals from no one. It is entirely self- penned and
produced, giving Amos complete creative freedom. “This
is the dark side of my heart, the hidden side, you know? The little pearl that
sort of got pushed away cause she wasn’t as shiny as the white one or the black
one.” Bright and shiny or dark and mysterious, Amos likes her music to reflect her
passion for life. “I usually get myself into situations that cause
sparks. I mean I’m a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love
walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes,”
Amos says. About the only thing Amos isn’t into is the Internet, where she is one of
the most popular musicians, popping up in over 30 Web sites. “I feel very removed from that because I don’t
even know what a Web is,” she says. She may not know what one is, but that hasn’t stopped her music from making
history there. Her new single was one of the first ever to have its worldwide
release on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 1996 Cable News Network, Inc. |