Tori Amos covers Britney Spears' "Baby One More Time" at the Paramount Theater in Oakland on July 13 2009. I combined the video posted by lindseymero with the better quality audio posted by robertschrader.
Why cant Tori fans just shut up and let her play a freaking cover without creaming their pants as soon as she starts? Some of her best would-be live recorded covers arent even enjoyable because people feel the need to blurt out as soon as they recognize the song. /rant
It's important to note that she used this song as a sort segue into "Maybe California" which she wrote about suicide, spousal abuse, empty nest syndrome and a struggling economy.
If this was heard by someone who had never heard Britney's original, it would sound like a wonderful Tori song. She made this so beautiful. I would love a studio version!
as you can hear.... nice songs can be reintrpretated in different ways and still sound great....that britney song (like many others) is a great song, put a good singer to sing it, andyou hear its value ;)
not me. Im not a brit fan. Never have been and pretty much every single person I know is also not a hrit fan. But tori makes brits songs actually sound good and and deep (something spears never achieved) i think that's what the comment of this song being good was about. Her voice and passion make it sound good, which is why tori is and will be (for a long time possibly forever) the queen
She really did make this song AMAZING. But that's really not that surprising if you ask me because a. Tori Amos is a bit of a genius when it comes to covers and b. Britney Spears had the best people in the industry writing her songs and music. Not shocking that a very talented artist could do something really great with her songs,
Max Martin should be honoured, I presume you mean. Britney is just someone who can dance rather well and sing okay enough to get by with a lot of doubling by backup singers. Max wrote and produced it, so it's he who should be honoured at other versions being sung.
She didn't co-write the damn song. It was originally written for the R&B girl group TLC, but they passed it up, so it went to Britney instead. And maybe Auto-Tune wasn't widely used in 1998, but vocoders and other types of voice editing programs did exist before Auto-Tune, which Britney certainly always used (hence her practically never being able to sing live). Sorry, but artists who lack musical talent DON'T deserve any fucking respect.
What's funny is that whenever a singer/songwriter covers Britney Spears, the song actually takes on much deeper meaning. Even something as puerile as "Womanizer" sounds deep.
James Roman Britney songs are very well crafted. Even when she is not composing it, she picks up very good songs, meaning it works so well outside the pop production. Even she's not a gifted singer, she's a good producer (and a surprisely good vocal performer)
Check out her version of "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" (Kylie Minogue Cover) and "Rooting For My Baby" (Miley Cyrus Cover) and "Hyperballad" (Björk Cover).
It's truly a wonderful thing, that Tori can take a song and make it her own...utilizing the original lyric & give it a completely different meaning! ...WOW~
Not bad, but nowhere near as a good a cover as the way Travis did it. Her cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit still deserves its place in the pantheon of amazing covers.
@mariaradu1 Love Travis, but I gotta disagree, her arrangement changes the song in tone and meaning, and gave it this depth I didn't think was possible.
Yep, I was at Tori concert in San Antonio, Tx in 1998.. one of the BEST concerts I have EVER been to in my life. She is a CLASSIC.. Two hours of heaven.
I first saw Tori live in 1992 … and I *really* miss Tori’s AUDIENCE from those early years. You could LITERALLY hear a pin drop whenever she was speaking or singing because the audience was smart enough (and polite enough) to keep quiet until the last note of each song had stopped reverberating; only then would they clap and cheer. It was truly a spiritual experience, and the audience behaved properly in Tori’s “church.” Unfortunately, by the late 1990s, her audiences started behaving like this one does - cheering so much and so loudly throughout the songs that you really cannot hear Tori, or her piano, very well. I can’t make heads or tails out of most of this performance because they refused to shut up (and what little I could understand was only because I’m so familiar with the original song) - which is a terrible shame because what I can hear is gorgeous …
I just posted a version that's the opposite of lindseymero's clip - pretty decent audio with bad, off-frame video. It doesn't have the opening dialog from the robertschrader clip, but the song sounds clear. Just thought I'd add into the mix...
@lutalice - you're right. I must have inferred that part from something else entirely. But Tori did say that Maybe California is about maternal suicide and a struggling economy. The song is written from the perspective that she's trying to offer hope to any wife or mother who might be considering suicide.
