Articles - July 1998 |
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Jalouse Magazine (France) July 1998 |
Entertainment Weekly July 10, 1998 |
Sydney Sunday Telegraph July 12, 1998
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The Flint Journal July 24, 1998 A review of Tori's July 23, 1998 concert in Detroit, MI appeared in The Flint Journal. |
The Montreal Gazette July 27, 1998 A review of Tori's July 26, 1998 concert in Montreal, QUE appeared in The Montreal Gazette. |
New York Post July 30, 1998 A review of Tori's July 28, 1998 concert in New York City appeared in the New York Post. |
Now newspaper (Toronto) July 23-29, 1998
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Newsweek Magazine July 27, 1998
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Cincinnati Enquirer July 17, 1998
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Chicago Sun Times July 17, 1998
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Chicago Daily Herald July 17, 1998
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Sound On Sound (U.K.) July 1998
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Teen Grrl Web Site July 6, 1998
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Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages July 8, 1998
In southern Mexico, where I am writing this from, the half-dozen local bohemians who've heard of Tori Amos like to run her name into a single word out loud, toreamos, invented but consistent: Literally "we are
bullfighting," it's understood more directly as "we bullfight." Apparently
this is hilarious; I suspect at least in part because Tori is an elementally
female principle, and bullfighting, well, bullfighting is all about balls.
Not to say that radical femaleness can't be as powerful and fearless and
confrontational as any spasm of machismo, without the childishness of blood
sport attached. In Rockville, the classic example of this (it appears
emblematically in the crucial essay collection _Rock She Wrote_, for
example) is Kathleen Hanna ripping up her shirt and shouting at the
audience, "Suck my left one!" (a Bikini Kill title from their first EP).
That was revolution girl-style then: co-opting boys' suck-my-diction,
demanding pleasure or even subjection, assuming the right to make any and
all such demands. And all the time refusing theorist Luce Irigaray's famous
philosophy of body parts to the effect that "man is what is always touching
something else; woman is what is always touching herself." It's hard to
imagine Tori Amos reading Irigaray or, fo rthat matter, giving a second
thought to Kate Hanna. But she knows all this and more, and she's ready to
take the two and go one better.
The buzz is that "She's Your Cocaine" is the Ballad of Trent and
Courtney: "She's in control and then she says to control her then she said
you're controlling the way she makes you crawl." But it's not going to
settle for being a celebrity skin flick. For two minutes the song is a
murderous blue streak, banging and furious, noisier than anything we've
heard in three and a half records. Then everything falls away: The
multitracked guitars and bitchslap bass, the drums and the metallic digital
whistle all yield. It's an area opened up within the body of the song, and
she invites you inside: just the familiar piano and the voice gone from
sneering to direct, suddenly in the first person, as close to plain speech
as Tori Amos will ever come--"If you want me to, boy I could lie to you--you
don't need one of these to let me inside of you."
The moment for which we wonder what "one of these" might be is a brief
one. And the boys cringe and the girls smile, all the debt that the
romantic idea of "inside" always owes to the physical utterly put paid; the
abstraction collapses and we remember there's a real inside, that this
belongs to the girls, and everyone knows this is somewhere. |
"First for women" magazine July 20, 1998
Confidence: Tori Amos' open hands with fingers spread indicates she's confident. Her pinkie, short and spread wide, is further proof; it indicates she's an independent women who is not much for small talk. Her heart line conveys that she is a warm, strongly physical lover. |
Iowa State Daily newspaper July 16, 1998 Greg Jerrett, a daily columnist at the Iowa State Daily (A newspaper that serves Iowa State University and Ames, IA.) interviewed Tori and the interview appeared in the July 16, 1998 edition. I strongly recommend you read it. You can read it at the ISU Daily web site. The article should also be archived soon on Greg's Own Web Site as well. |
Rocktropolis Allstar News July 16, 1998
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 15, 1998
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Minneapolis Star Tribune July 14, 1998
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Herald Sun newspaper (Australia) July 9, 1998
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"Top" (free magazine from Tower Records UK) July/August 1998
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Marie Claire (U.K.) Magazine July 1998
On the road - my perfect drive time tape by Tori Amos:
Bjork - Human Behaviour |
NME & Melody Maker July 4, 1998 issue for Melody Maker ??? for NME
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Stereo Review July 1998
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Guitar Player Magazine July 1998
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US Magazine July 1998
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Alternative Press July 1998 There was a major Tori article in the July 1998 issue of Alternative Press Magazine. Tori is also featured on the cover. The article is a "must read" and the photos are really great. |
Musician Magazine July 1998 Tori is on the cover of Musician Magazine in the July 1998 issue. I now have the article online, as well as scans of all the photos. |
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