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Entertainment Weekly Spring 2000 - 10th Anniversary Edition
Tori is included in the Spring 2000 10th Anniversary Edition of Entertainment Weekly magazine (#540). Tori is listed as #2 in a column entitled "Power 101: Cult Edition The Top 10 Most Powerful Cult Heroes Of The Decade Past." It includes the photo you see to the right. Look below to see what the magazine wrote on page 106. Thanks to Danica who sent me the photo and article, and to Micah, Betsy Hooks, Randy Uhl, Joseph, LecyRoo, Molly Knight, Ciccone4, John Kwiatkowski, Bill aka Bildo and Alex for sending the information to me! POWER 101: CULT EDITION
How things have changed: The orignial showbiz cultists, Deadheads, had to
spend their youth in smelly VW cans to pay tribute. Cultists of the '90s are
but a click away from their chosen shrines. Still, it's the faces and
messages that keep the cult alive, here's a look at the most powerful cult
heroes of the past decade. Then comes the list of their top 8. A picture of each and a small blurb
follows.
#1 is Phish
#2 is Tori
Tori Amos, pensively activist singer-songwriter #3 Fugazi Boston Phoenix (and Providence Phoenix) May 19, 2000
Marla Tiara and Danika Dreslin inform me that Tori was voted the best National Female Vocalist in the results of the Boston Phoenix's Best Music Poll, which were published in the May 19, 2000 edition. You can read what they say about Tori at the Boston Phoenix web site. I have also included the magazine's comments below. Tori also received this honor in 1997 and 1999. Kate Morin adds that this was also published in a local Rhode Island magazine called "The Providence Phoenix," which appears to be another version of the same magazine. It's appropriate that Tori Amos has been known to cover Nine Inch Nails songs live (check Napster for
the MP3s): with a gift as corn-flaky and big as the persona she serves up in interviews, she's as obscure as The Fragile and as grand as The Wall. Speaking of double-live documents, her To Venus and Back (Atlantic) -- half live sprawl, half over-generous
Tori on an in-studio roll -- was kind of a gift for those fans who make their own Tori-totem dolls (see last year's Spin cover story), and for them alone. But I'm partial to the part where she murders her inner waitress for upward of 10 minutes, and to "Glory of
the '80s," where she promises to die and come back as Kim "Bette Davis Eyes" Carnes, hopefully ensuring that'll never actually happen. Plus in an article that is just an overview of all of the winners comes this comment... On a related note, the emergence of Grammy-winning
female songstress Macy Gray in the Best National New
Act category, coupled with the win of the
strong-willed, soft-voiced Tori Amos as Best National
Female Vocalist, indicates that the outlook for women
in rock might not be as grim as it's sometimes seemed
over the past year. The loss of Lilith Fair is a
setback of sorts, but to a certain extent that tour
did its job in proving that women artists can put
bodies in seats at big venues, something that Amos and
Alanis Morissette went off and did on their own last
year. Michigan Daily May 8, 2000
Toronto Sun May 7, 2000
Plugged In May 2000
"The PC thing, that's not my scene. I lay it on the table. If someone is going to take their lithium, do a line or read the Bible, go for it. As long as you don't hurt anyone else, it's all the same to me." - Singer TORI AMOS after making it clear that, despite a "Christian" upbringing, she has forsaken "organized Christianity" (The Washington Post, 10/9/99) |
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