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Ah, break out the hot cocoa and your thinking cap…its time for another Tori Amos magazine interview

In the featured article of this month’s “Rip it Up” magazine, Tori discusses her future as a touring musician–or lack thereof (*collective cries, groans, and pouty lips*). It appears as though she feels like she is “getting to old for it.” If any other musician said this, it would have come across as a cop-out…but not Tori. All of her fans know she lives to tour…and that she must be truly concerned about the continued quality of her performances. And, as she says in the interview, she’s not sure if the touring life is the best life for little Tash.

Tori also contemplated the ratio of “airtime” each “doll” has gotten on this tour. She believes Pip and Santa get more on-stage love, because Isabel takes life much more seriously focusing on politics and the pitiful state of the world. She plays for her fans (true Tori style) and knows that some people would just rather rock.

When confronted about the whole throwing-the-shoe-at-the-security-guard incident, Tori blamed it on her inability to recall the word “cocksucker” in Slovak. (You can almost imagine her tipping up her chin and furrowing her brow as she thinks, “I need to learn ‘cocksucker’ in more languages so I stop throwing away my expensive shoes!”). Tori went on to explain that she had to pull rank when the guard attempted to bully a fan during an intimate moment of the show.

Maybe this isn’t such a novel question as I originally thought…it seems as though several interviewers are asking Tori how she plans to explain her lyrics to Tash. She answers the question rather simply: “We don’t always talk to Tash about some of the things in the music.”

Mr. McLennan’s a smart guy…and obviously a Tori fan. At the end of the interview he makes the connection between the Hey Jupiter line “All the dolls I had” and the new album. Tori likes this question, and attributes the eventual “creation” of these foreseen dolls to the accumulation of her life experiences..and to being a “mum.”

You can read the full article on Undented.com.

Filed under: Press/Articles on September 13th, 2007