Tori Amos - Winter (Live) *DayOne Reacts* 

She emotes like no other vocalist that has ever lived in my opinion. Stunning how she can drag you right into her pain through her story telling ability. I am a 49 year old dad who bought Tori’s first release on cassette tape and when all my metal head friends weren’t with me I would listen to the songs back to back, I found that I wanted to be able to have that kind of power through songwriting, I no longer was interested in writing the songs about chics and booze like I grew up with in the 80’s 😂.

@@peal1179 Yes, I too am 49 & I remember hearing Tori when I was a kid, I love listening to her music 'til this day 😁

What a voice, fantastic… I know for a fact that her first tour started small… my then business partner (and future wife!) saw Tori Amos on the first stop on that ‘92 tour… in Pontiac, Michigan. It was an audience of 5. Five!! In late ‘92, we opened our business, a record store, and yeah, we sold a lotta Tori Amos records in the 90s, mostly CDs at the time, of course.

Awesome anecdote. Tori is a goddess

Just stumbled upon your comment, Jeff. I teach at Marquette and have taught in the Weasler many times. As a huge Tori fan, it's fun to know that she there in '92, just getting her start. How amazing to have seen her live back then, especially signing "Winter," which always just destroys me.

I met her in the 90's & she saved my life...met through RAINN charity...seen 9 times backstage 7 & on tour bus twice...last time on bus she held me in her arms && convinced me to leave Abusive Ex...The Woman is a Goddess !!!!!!!!!!!!

All the people here in this comment area are lucky to have a "Tori Amos" story. Living in New Zealand you don't meet your idols even if they do come down here they go to just the one venue & it costs oodles of dollars! It cost $1000 NZD a ticket, (average), to see Madonna when she came for the first time just 5 or 6 years ago!

Me too and I can’t get enough of watching these reaction videos. I’ve been a fan since I was a teenager. Much blessings sent your way and to our host!

I would have left too knowing that your gift is something they wish they had and out of jealousy they knew they could never be as good as her. To posses a natural born ability and at 5 years is just unheard of. This song and performance is perfect and gut wrenching in every regard.

Mother isn't about Mary. It's about Earth (according to Tori).

Tori has written quite a few songs about and for her mother, Mary Amos, across her albums. They include The Beekeeper, Ribbons Undone, Mother Revolution, Mary's Ryes, Reindeer King, Speaking with Trees and Flowers Burn to Gold. It's striking that many of these songs, which Tori has recorded over several decades, deal with the near-loss or loss of her mother from her life. Listened in sequence, it's striking, and these songs (plus Tori's quotes about and beyond them about her mother) reveal that Tori deeply reveres her mother as a sacred force in her life as well as as a teacher and a confidant, and it seems that the fear of losing her mother was perhaps the greatest or most potent fear of her lifetime. I relate, and Tori's album that dealt with her mother's slow transition from life came just before my mother and best friend died in a similarly tragic way. Tori's latest album features two astonishing songs that deal with her mother's death and her transmutation following death, and they are the most striking songs of all about her mother in my opinion. I don't think almost any of Tori's songs are about just one subject. Her father to her is her protective, loving dad, and at the same time he always seems to have represented the Christian patriarchy that has robbed women of sovereignty and caused harm to them-quite a conflicted view. Her mother serves a role of loving, nurting personal mother but Tori also has represented her as a correlate for the Virgin Mary, a spiritual heiress to the essence of the Gnostic interpretation of Mary Magdalene and the holy spirit, as a living embodiment of the Eastern Cherokee people, as a librarian and a keeper of sacred literature of all kinds and as an analogue of Gaia. I once sat next to Tori's parents at a concert and her mother was both humble and humbling. She was soft spoken but very direct, thanking me for coming, telling me how talented her daughter is and asking me what I think her daughter's greatest work was. (This was during the Scarlet's Walk tour and I had to qualify my answer but ultimately I said Scarlet's Walk from a conceptual and lyrical perspective, and Mary got all excited and said she thinks so, too.) Songs that refer to Tori's father usually bear some kind of direct conflict and have some dark overtones or undertones, while songs that refer to her mother are reverent and are imbued with Tori's worry of one day losing her mother. She certainly always has conflated her mother with Mother Earth, and with Christian, European pagan and Native American icons of life creation, nurturing and unconditional love.

Jan 23, 1997... Madison Square Garden Rain concert. During long intro to Cornflake Girl she paraded in front of the audience, moved her arms slowly around her non pregnant belly, held an imaginary baby to her chest... then went back to the piano. Years later I read she had mis-carried a little while before. It still sends shivers through me.

@@jalvo2004 oh wow! 😟

I do, as well, although in my mind's eye and not actually with my eyes. Some sounds and some songs reliably 'paint' very specific scenes in my mind that I envision as evolving abstract soundscapes and some songs don't do this. Almost all of Tori's music generates these moving 'paintings' of light, color and texture for me and it's a significant aspect of why her music is so extraordinary to me. Each of her albums has its own sound and each album presents itself as a different genre of both aural and visual art to me. I'd say maybe 15 percent of all other artists' music does this for me, and about 95 percent of Tori's songs do. There is absolutely a visual spirit embued within her music, at least as I hear and see it. She's an alchemical master. I think of her album 'Native Invader' as sort of her 'coming out' as a wise woman/medical woman/shaman, and I think whatever she draws from to create her music is an aspect of that part of her being.