Blender Magazine
February/March 2002
Added Feb 7, 2002
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Blender Magazine
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The February/March 2002 issue of Blender Magazine (Maxim's music magazine with Kid Rock on the cover) includes the 100 Greatest American Albums of all time. Tori is listed at #93 with her 1994 Under The Pink album. (Madonna's Immaculate Collection was #1.) Blender printed an interesting interview with Tori about the Under The Pink album as well as printed two nice photos with the interview. See the photos below! Special thanks to Alison Zemell for scanning the photos for us, and to Johanna Bean for emailing me the interview text. I also would like to thank Glitter Girl & Robert, Steven and John Bonebrake for telling me about this.  "I'm not warm and fuzzy" Next to a really lovely photo of Tori that I haven't seen before, is a small
photo of utp. The text underneath reads:
"Just one woman, her inner demons and a unique way of sitting astride the
piano stool: it all seemed so naive, but Amos's double-platinum second alum
was powerful magic: love songs with hidden teeth and sexy confessions
whispered across her pillow. Jerry Springer was never this dark."
Interview Text (with a lovely photo from the plugged tour of Tori wearing a
long red sparkly apron playing the bose and the keyboards.)
BLENDER: WHERE ARE YOU RIGHT NOW?
Tori: I'm in Brussels, Belgium, and it's pouring rain.
WELL, IT's GOOD FOR THE SPROUTS.
Yes, and there's a chocolate shop next door. [Momentarily Distracted}
Jerome, we're not taking those nuts. We can give those two back. Sorry,
Jerome's doing inventory.
YOU RECORDED UNDER THE PINK AT A HACIENDA IN NEW MEXICO. HOW DID THAT COME
ABOUT?
I was just feeling something in the Southwest. [Engineer/producer] Eric
Rosse found a hacienda there, and it just seemed right to be away from any
kind of music center.
WERE THE SONGS ALREADY WRITTEN AT THAT POINT?
I had "Pretty Good Year" with me. I had "Sugar" which was a B-side that I
thought I was going to re-record and put on the album. But enough material
came that I didn't have to do that. I wrote almost everything while I was
there. There were certain songs, though, that were supposed to be on the
record that got kicked off. "Honey" was supposed to be on the record and, in
retrospect, I wish it had been. I kicked it off for "The Wrong Band." Under
the Pink wept when "Honey" wasn't on, and she still is angry with me about
it.
YOU CAN ALWAYS ADD IT WHEN YOU DO THE EXPANDED REISSUE.
That's a very good idea. The other thing about Under the Pink is that
Atlantic wanted to leverage me out in the middle of the project so Eric and
I wouldn't be in control of it. I threatened to burn the tapes.
NOT JUST ERASE THEM?
No. Burn them.
JEEZ. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
That they were going to take the tapes and give them to a hotshot producer.
We won't talk about names. I told them, "Look, I'm the mother of this, and
you won't be able to get to the cubs but through me." I'm not warm and
fuzzy. That's why labels have such a difficult time with me.
DID THIS UPSET THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE SESSIONS?
No, the atmosphere was great. We were in Taos, away from everyone. If
anybody from the busines side came by, they were walking into our lair. Not
the opposite.
HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS DONE?
At one point, engineer Paul McKenna said to me, "You know, Tori, this
record's missing something." I said "Oh, Ok." And within 48 hours, I had
this horrible argument with a waitress.
YOU'RE KIDDING.
No, I'm not. She was the devil. She was Satan. She was a meanie. She beccame
the embodiement of a few women in my life that I was it out with, and "The
Waitress" got wrtten. And Paul said, "The record's complete."
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