Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin - NEW ALBUM

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Originally Posted by SweetGirl24

Ah nice, you were at the Detroit show too? That was a pretty good show! I got to hear Talula for the first time there...front row! Woo. I took my friend along too for her first Tori show Well, I think I more dragged her, but that's ok.

Oh, what a great pic! So jealous! And yep, I was there - a few rows behind you, apparently, lol. I dragged my boyfriend along (okay, I made him drive me from over here in PA), and it was his first Tori show, too. He was wary at first, not having much experience with her music and was sort of "bwuh?" at many of the videos, etc, I showed him prior to our going, but he LOVED the show. Tori live is always the best Tori, I think. Songs I never quite "get" on albums always manage to click somehow when I see her play them live.

I loved the arrangement they did for Talula - I hadn't yet heard her do that one live at a show I'd been at, and I thought the arrangement was really interesting. I think one of the best things about Miss T is that she is able to take these songs and do them over and over again, but have them be so different each time. Like the songs really are alive "girls," they get in different moods, and sometimes have something different to say.

Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

I can only speak for myself as to why Tori is appealing. Personally, I find her music very relatable (I won't bore anyone with examples), I like her obscure references to film-stars, pop culture, literature etc. I think it makes her music more individual and interesting, and there's a lot of wit in her writing which appeals to my sense of humour. I love the production on most of her music (except The Beekeeper, not that I think it's an entirely bad album, it has its charms). She also puts on an incredible live show, fantastic energy; even songs I wasn't particularly fond of on her albums, I have come to love once seeing her perform them live.

I couldn't get along with much of Beekeeper until I saw her on tour for it and heard some of the songs in person. Beekeeper & I still aren't the best of friends or anything, but I like a lot more of it now than I did before that show.

Also agreed, re: lyrics. Some of Tori's lyrics are so downright bizarre that you can't help but love them even if you have no idea what she's on about, but there are many lines that I find utterly, unspeakably profound and beautiful.

I think she has a unique knack for cramming pages of ideas into one or two lines. The ideas I'm hearing may not be the ones she had in mind when she wrote them, of course, but that's okay. I don't think she'd mind.

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