Action Magazine (Austria)
November 2001
Updated Nov 8, 2001
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Action Magazine (Austria)
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Tori is on the cover and has a 4 page article in the November 2001 issue of Action Magazine in Austria. Thanks to Silvia Klement for telling me about it. She also translated the article from German to English, and you can read that below. (Keep in mind that translating articles is a tricky thing and some of the meanings could have shifted some during the process.) The oddest thing was the inclusion of a "planned" set list for Tori's upcoming Vienna show in December 2001. Tori always waits until shortly before the show to compose her set list, so I find the idea that she would send this magazine a set list months in advance to be suspect at best. Still, the article is worth reading. The photos are all or mostly from a few years ago, including one of Tori on a snail that was first seen in 1999. You can see a scan of the cover of this magazine below, sent to me by Silvia Klement.  STRANGE LITTLE GIRL
Superstar of women
TORI AMOS. With her cover-cd "Strange Little Girls", the queen of rock goes
into the psyche of men. On 14.12. in Gasometer.
Cover versions. What would today's charts be without them? But while
charts-starlets like No Angels (There Must Be An Angel), Atomic Kitten
(Eternal Flame) or Christina Aguilera (Lady Marmalade) use covers only to
turn lack of talent into quick money, Tori Amos - 38year old power-woman of
rock - turns the medal with her legendary power of expression. Namely, the
neo-mama (daughter Natashya, 1) releases a whole album of covers. "Strange
Little Girls" (Nomen est omen) is the name of the conceptual album, on which
the rock-fairy reviews the male musical history from a woman's point of view
from Eminem ('97 Bonnie & Clyde) over Depeche Mode (Enjoy The Silence) to
the Beatles (Happiness Is A Warm Gun), using sound-samples of her
priest-father Edison and of President Bush. On December 14th, the "most
exciting woman of the rock-business" (so says "N.M.E.") will perform in the
BA-hall in the Viennese Gasometer. Solo, unplugged and only on the piano.
Here's the ACTION-interview:
Announcement: "My CD is a record about power."
Action: Why an album of cover-versions?
Tori Amos: I wanted to say something. And the best way to do it was to use
the words of men. My intention was to show that each statement has two sides
- and that so far, with those macho-lyrics the woman's side has not been
heard.
Action: Your CD is one of the most discussed.
Amos: Because it is a record about power and about the definition of power.
Plus it is the first time that a woman penetrates the male psyche.
Action: How do you define power?
Amos: Especially men are looking for people they can suppress. And the range
goes from the Taliban to Coca Cola. Everybody who makes you believe that
without them you cannot survive.
Action: Why those particular songs?
Amos: The songs, no matter how old they are, had to reflect the current
zeitgeist ("circumstances of our time") , because I wanted to compose a
modern mythology.
Action: A mythology without men?
Amos: No, I needed men to do that, lots of men. I had a group of men which I
called "men-lab" consisting of heteros, homosexuals, bisexuals, men of
different cultures and colours. Because a woman cannot, no matter what, go
into a male psyche.
Action: For those men this was very uncomfortable.
Amos: Of course, but we had an agreement. Nothing that had been said would
leave the room. And their partners would never be told. It almost was a
relgious process, like a confession.
Action: Also a therapy?
Amos: No therapy, because I am not a therapeut and I am not an actress. It
was more like a journey into the soul and also a bridging.
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Tori Amos on Rock and War: "On September 11th, I was in Midtown N.Y. only 2 or 3 kilometers far from
the World Trade Center when IT happened. At that time, not only the Twin
Towers have been torn apart, but also a whole country. Since then, the masks
have been thrown off and people finally start questioning things again. Of
course, there is a huge amount of patriotism, but this always happens when
people are under attack. In America, there has been a movement out of hatred
for a long time, and many think that the event of 11.9. now overshadows all
the hatred that has been existing before. But this is the wrong approach. I
am not talking about the "good old pure murder", but I am talking about the
senseless hatred against homosexuals, blacks or women. Because when all
those people now talk so loud against the Taliban, they are nothing but
hypocrites. Because the truth is that anybody who exercises power, whether
it is a partner, a government or a religion, only wishes that the others
remain fools.
/text with the photos/
page1: page2: page3: page4: (German text by: Thomas Zeidler. Translated into English for The Dent by: Silvia
Klement). The setlist of the rock-diva: TORI AMOS: 14.12., Vienna, Bank Austria Halle im Gasometer, 20.00 p.m.
The planned songlist: '97 Bonnie & Clyde Encore: |
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