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David Dalby

This was a really fascinating watch - I'm a mid-40s straight, British Male fan of Tori Amos. Under the Pink and Little Earthquakes are some of my favourite albums ('Pretty Good Year' and 'Tear in Your Hand' would probably be my two faves. I will not let the scumbag NG ruin the latter for me), I've seen her live (and get very angry at someone talking and kicking them out), tried and failed to learn her songs on the piano and it was a bit like watching an alternate universe take - Tori was pretty big in the UK (12 top 40 singles and a number 1). 'Cornflake Girl' was absolutely her signature song (and it got to number 4, although 13 year old me did not understand what it was about). I thought she was just as big in America and it was an education to learn she just wasn't. Like a musical 'What If...' Time to chuck 'Little Earthquakes' & 'Under the Pink' on loud...

John Fischer

Well, hello there! This will be the first video I watch with my newly minted Nebula subscription, for the record. Can’t wait to watch it!

Lanth

Well damn, I'm looking forward to this one! Honestly, I kind of thought she did have hits, although not huge ones; I remember hearing Raspberry Swirl on the radio. Certainly everyone I know loves her, so clearly I'm just in a bubble of good music taste.

Lanth

I'll be honest, 42 year old me still doesn't understand what Cornflake Girl is about, although I love it anyway.

Irving Le Turkey

I haven’t seen the video bc I can’t figure out Nebula but “Cornflake Gril” was a hit both chart wise and culturally to the point where Jawbox’s cover of it also did well as a single. And the remix of “professional widow” was a worldwide dance hit.

Catherine Langford

Beautiful video thank you! I had forgotten about my Tori Amos CD collection so now I need to pull it out and see if I still have a CD player in the house … or download the albums. Tori deserves my money she is so talented! I really do appreciate she never got as big as Chappell Roan, for the flexibility it gives her to live her life a bit more freely.

James Graham

It’s interesting watching this from a UK perspective where she wasn’t exactly huge but was clearly a much bigger deal than the US, and I’d say most people of my generation consider her a small but significant part of the soundtrack of their youth (some stats: https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/27268/tori-amos/ ) Was this because we’d already had more than a decade of Kate Bush to acclimatise us to this kind of artist? I have no idea. But equally I had no idea she was quite so obscure in her own country!

Jack Whelan

Welp now I’m getting into Tori Amos

Arielle Lyons

spent a good chunk of the video wondering why her voice sounded so familiar before realizing she’s the one who sings the “yo george” song in your bush era anti-war music video lol. and yes i am an uncultured youth (i’m 23) who didn’t know anything about tori amos until this video, so thanks for the education.

Anne Kalgesch

Perhaps because I also discovered Tori at 12, but I think this is Lindsay's best video

Patrick Collins

I saw her perform in Milan in 2003- one of the greatest concert experiences of my life. I think she was always more popular in Europe than she ever was in the US. Also, Chappell Roan is a queen and we must serve.

Jen Gee

I turned 18 in the middle 90s and I don't think I can properly describe how revolutionary it was for me to hear someone singing about being a girl in our society at the time. Winter still makes me tear up to this day.

Rachel G

From the Choirgirl Hotel changed my life and I will be first in line if there is ever a vinyl reissue.

Eric Lundquist

Thanks for this. I'm a recovering jazz supremacist trying to open up to popular music through the ages, and Tori Amos was not on my list yet. This video was an amazing analysis of an artist that I can tell I will really like, and another excellent spotlight of the price of fame in our messed-up society.

Michelle C. Funk

I think I might have been too young for Cornflake girl but also Silent All These Years was in heavy mainstream radio rotation. I remember hearing it a lot in middle school but having a hard time making sense of the radio charts for it - edit: it was the 1997 re-release! It spent 18 weeks on the Billboard charts and peaked at 26, which to me is a hit. Apparently A Sorta Fairytale did even better! Wild. Anyway, not nearly as much as she deserved, but yeah. https://www.billboard.com/artist/tori-amos/chart-history/atf/

Twippit

Another banger vid. Excellent work, Lindsay 🐸👍

Sébastien Le Maguer

I think it extends beyond the UK to reach europe (at least france). I remember the song crucify was played in a bunch of radio stations when I was kid.

Mattias Skagerholm

I think there are a lot of us European millennials who just now found out that Tori Amos never had a hit in the US. Cornflake Girl was a huge hit here and was everywhere. It played on the radio and on MTV all the time!

Grace Carroll

Hit the nail on the head with the fantano critique. Reminds me of his criticism of 'Taste' by Sabrina Carpenter - that apparently it's really bitter and nasty to write a tongue in cheek song mocking your ex's new partner, as if there aren't a million songs written by men around that concept which are valorised. Fantano has a serious problem with women expressing emotions that might make them seem anything less than perfectly angelic

Sophie Cleverly

I'm 35 from the UK and I strangely thought she must be more famous in the US than here 😅 maybe I missed the boat a bit. I only really knew who she was because of NG (and I probably have heard that Professional Widow remix a bajillion times but had no idea that was her lol)

Awasky Cromslack

You are blowing my mind that Silent All These Years wasn’t a chart topper. Tori Amos was everywhere in high school and college for me—one of my friends sang Leather a cappella as her audition song. Guess this means that all my friends were super into Tori Amos. Guess this means I had the right kind of friends. (I still listen to Little Earthquakes regularly.)

Rork

I second this. And don't forget Crucify.

Michelle C. Funk

It was on the on the billboard top play charts for 18 weeks in 1997, peaking at 24 which is coming fairly close, but admittedly, still not as popular as it/she should have been!! Especially for how prolific she’s been. Can’t wait to watch this video

green

watching the video, and *damn* if I don't still remember 90% of Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink memorized, though it's all waaaay out of my range and I haven't thought about them in years...

Michael Collins

Me growing up in North America in the late 90s as a massive Tori Amos fan: “I never ever hear Tori Amos on the radio” Me getting a job in Ireland in 2005: “I heard Crucify at the supermarket today.”

Mattias Skagerholm

I was really surprised and confused when the fact that Cornflake Girl was a huge hit in many European countries wasn't mentioned at all! That felt like a weird oversight... Great video otherwise!

Michael Tomasulo

This was a sad video for me. I have to agree that she really wanted to have a big breakthrough hit song, but I don't quite get why she didn't just do the typical 'sell-out' thing and get a slick producer and a co-writer to crank out a top ten single. There must be some ego there, which is hard to argue with, as she is so talented. I was in high school when Little Earthquakes came out. It made quite a splash among my friends, and the video some good play on MTV.

Michael Collins

Considering “getting a slick producer and a co-writer and cranking out a top 10 single” was what the entire Y Kant Tori Read project was about, and how abysmally it failed, and how much trauma she probably had about that humiliation, selling herself out and getting nothing but shame in return for it, i doubt she was eager to repeat the experiment to see if it worked out differently a second time. Plus, all the fans she gained after Little Earthquakes that had made her a success and were now the entire support structure of her career would probably not like that. So if she cranked out a focus-grouped slickly produced pop hit aiming at the pop charts, she could have easily ended up pulling a Jewel and not only flopping a second time, but also losing her credibility and most of her existing fanbase into the bargain.

Major Tom

That take of Lindsay's blew 51 year-old me away, tbh

Laura L

Not to mention, Jewel had her own sellout moment in the early 2000s, and it didn't help her career at all.

VoYD

Much appreciation and respect to all the creators. This was a really meaningful and beautiful piece. 🖤

KSCHatch

I did not know she co-founded RAINN. What a great video.

Jeremy R

I bought Little Earthquakes in 1994 in the fourth grade at my local video rental store on an absolute whim. I've loved her ever since, seriously my favorite solo artist. Yet my mom was still shocked when I brought a man home for Thanksgiving in college 💀 This video made me sob. It made me recall 40 years in as many minutes. Well done, ma'am. Well done. ❤️

just me

I am a member, but Nebula thinks I'm not and isn't allowing me access to this video? Anyone else have the same issue?

Nina S

I first discovered her after hearing her cover of Murder He Says for Mona Lisa Smile lol (born in 1999 here!) BUT -- I work as a lounge singer in a haunted house and one of my coworkers is a huge fan of Tori's. She would sing Sweet The Sting often and I fell in love with that one. I also think Bob's Burgers parodied Tori in the food truck episode.

Rareș-Andrei Dinu

She's by far one of my all time favorite artists, discovered unfortunately through her friendship with the disgraced fantasy writer who we shall not name. I was immediately enchanted by her voice and sound and lyrics. And I'll always be so annoyed when no-one around seems to know her, despite her amazing talent and musical output. I'm glad I found Tori early in my life, cause she did make me a better person. Love her forever.

Deconstruction Interactive

Love, love, love this video. I like that you finished on a two-sided conversation about fame, exposure, and authenticity. I think it's a conversation very much worth having, as many peoplee have experienced the Glory of the Information Age and are now reflecting... is it, was it, actually a good idea to go that far? Should we pull back? Cf. social media post 2020 or so, with a lot more fracturing and mini-communities on chat platforms.

Adam Giess

Rick from Rick and Morty is cannonically a Tori Amos fan! And that's all I have to contribute to the conversation.

Ethan Good

*Me, trying to process the video by scrolling comments *Sees your thumbnail "Did Tori Amos comment on this video? Is Tori Amos a Lindsay Ellis Patron?" 🤣

Ethan Good

I had no idea who Tori Amos was, but Silent All These Years triggered enough of a glimmer of recognition that I decided to dig through my music. Something like 20 years ago, I ripped my parents' entire CD collection onto the family computer. That library has been copied from computer to mp3 player, to external hard drive, to laptop again and again over the years, and I still have all those CDs on this computer to this day. Sure enough, Silent All These Years is in there. Ripped from disc 2 of Atlantic Records 50 Years The Gold Anniversary Collection. (Disc 1 is conspicuously absent; I don't think my parents had it.) Amazing how something that barely touched my life can shape the trajectory of someone else's. That's why I love learning about things I never knew that I never knew.

Arielle Lyons

lol i think it’s just the red hair, i don’t think i look much like her haha. we don’t all look alike!

Stephen

I discovered Tori Amos a few years back where Silent All These Years played a prominent role in a short-lived Netflix coming of age series called Everything Sucks! I was immediately fascinated by her music and feel in love - she has some tremendous songs. This was a really insightful video where I learned a hell of a lot. Really fascinating look into her career and how it compares to modern examples of fame set against the backdrop of social media. Thanks for this - really wonderful video.

Lewyn

Question, it may just be me but does anyone else have problems with some videos playability? This and the Xmen video will not load

Hypixion

I have listened to winter too many times

Pocket & Locket

It’s happening to me too! Did you get it figured out?

Laurence N

Same for me, all videos!

Bianca

Thanks to this video I have now discovered Tori and "Winter" and have listened to it while crying for a cathartic, indeterminable amount of time. Thank you Lindsey 💙🦋 well done

Ev G

Gosh have I always found Fantano insufferable And hey, one more season of Stranger Things and it could overlap with her first album from 1988. She could get that Kate Bush moment! (oh please please don't)

Ralf Greymuzzle

This is going to sound insane, but I only recently got into Tori thanks to , Lord of All, Rick & Morty. You've doubtless been told, but that song worked unbelievably well for a story about Men and Boys who pretend not to care about each other. I think I took Tori for granted when I was a Gen-eXgder and MTV only played "God" with her anyway... thanks for making me aware of this. In particular that one song. Not a lot of guys are ready to admit this, but, its about me too.

Grace Carroll

Watching this for I think the third time. This video introduced me to Tori's music, and I was honestly floored that I hadn't listened to her before. I'm a songwriter and it felt like a huge gap in my musical education. After the first watch I listened to all her albums pretty much back to back over the course of a few months. 'Silent all these years' is one of the greatest songs ever written. I am now completely obsessed and I think her music has changed my life too. I would never have looked into her if it weren't for this video. Thanks Lindsay!

Jessica Paneral

Do Lindsay and Tori kinda look alike or am i crazy?

Bianca

I went from not knowing who Tori is, to watching this video, being amazed, starting to listen to her music and finally last night was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to see her in concert and it was absolutely amazing! Still feels like it was a dream ☺️ Thank you so much to Lindsey and team who helped me find her 💜🌟

Wandering Coelacanth

Love love love this vid (and Tori) ❤️ Loved her even more after watching this. Speaking of the Reznor collab, there’s this Tori cover of Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9” which is brilliantly haunting. I believe it’s an Under The Pink b-side.