FIRST TIME REACTING TO | Tori Amos - Winter

[@nochops1]

It doesn't matter what you are in to..rock, pop, rap, hardcore death metal, you stop and listen to Tori Amos. She is beyond amazing in every way.

[@HB-xf2xl]

I was a metal head in the late 80’s-90’s. Back then, there weren’t many other artists outside of metal that most metal dudes listened to but they fucking loved tori Amos.

[@jenglish52402]

The whole album of Little Earthquakes is brilliant.

[@brittreacts]

I will keep that in mind, thanks!

[@jzeke1712]

Under the Pink and Boys For Pele are even better in my opinion. All the early Tori and a piano stuff is great.

[@deanroddey2881]

@@brittreacts You have to listen to the studio versions of these songs. They are epic productions that even Tori can't bring fully to life live, as good as she is. The songs China, Winter, Little Earthquakes, etc... off that album are just incredible songs.

[@RecoveringChristian]

Elsa and the song Let It Go was inspired by Tori Amos

[@Spiralsinto]

@@brittreacts You will enjoy her song and video Crucify.

[@evantesseract737]

She's always like that. She makes music with her whole body and the piano is also her body. There's so much to enjoy from her! Winter is a wistful song but you caught the ferocity under it... She also has songs that are anger distilled through a piano or harpsichord. Very cathartic. Lots of grief and anger in her work. Lots of very human experiences made into art. She's a force all her own. Once in a while an artist comes along who feels almost otherworldly - like there was no chance they wouldn't create this art, the only question is whether anyone would notice. That's Tori.

[@saraht903]

So well said ❤

[@davidstevenson1933]

well said

[@nolasalazar]

I fell completely in love with Tori when I was eleven years old, I’m now 43 and still haven’t found another artist who has affected me the way Tori has. She is magical, the depths of her talent are endless. Her music is beautiful and honest.

[@RebeccaWorters]

Super talented! I've seen her in concert many times. She has two pianos on stage with a bench in between. She straddles the bench and plays both pianos at once! Cornflake Girl is a great song to see her in beast mode.

[@evantesseract737]

I saw her hit a note with her toe once!

[@geoffreymarston5948]

Yes super talented !

[@brittreacts]

so cool you got to see her live!

[@joushwilliams3623]

Missed catching her twice right when she was breaking in 92-93, both times found out about the concert the day after. Just booked tickets Monday to see her in July, very excited.

[@chrisv.h.2307]

Yes! "Cornflake Girl" has always been my favorite piano performance.

[@jeffroach3722]

Tori is amazing 🔥Little Earthquakes is one of the best albums of all time ☮

[@brittreacts]

she is great!

[@jeffpawlinski3210]

In November of 1992 I saw Tori Amos perform her masterpiece brilliant debut album "Little Earthquakes" at a tiny 200-seat auditorium on Marquette University's campus. I snagged an alumni ticket and was immediately both mesmerized and blown away by Tori's passion and talent. I'm convinced, to this day, that there's a hole in that stage floor where she relentlessly pounded her heel to keep time and beat. I have seen her 11 more times since, here in Milwaukee and she remains my favorite female artist of all time. She is remarkable!

[@jzeke1712]

Good old days of the Warriors. Pearl Jam played Marquette around that time as well, I believe.

[@jeffpawlinski3210]

@@jzeke1712 YES!!! I graduated in 1988 (as a Warrior!) and in 1987 we had Tracy Chapman open for 10,000 Maniacs. What a show that was! Then in September of 1991, I scored some alumni tickets to see Crowded House play on campus. Back then Marquette was really into student sponsored concerts. Fun times!

[@RecoveringChristian]

I'm jealous. I had to wait until 2007 before I could see and meet her for the first time. Best I can do is binge all her performances and interviews from the 90s...

[@Wungolioth]

Born Myra Ellen Amos, changed to Tori later, crawled up to a piano at the age of 2 and just started playing, by 3 she was able to duplicate songs she'd only heard once, by 4 composing her own music, and at age 5 she was the youngest person to this day to get a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Tori was also kicked out of that program at age 11 for what she called musical insubordination, she refused to learn to read sheet music, she preferred to play by ear, and she preferred rock and roll to classical music. Tori has said she had a form of synesthesia where she sees compositions as structures of color and light, and she sees her songs as actual, fully formed characters, her "girls" as she calls them, and sometimes they fight for a place on the record, or decide not to be, just as sometimes they show up to the show she's playing, or they don't, it's up to them.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

I believe that this winter is the last winter of her childhood. Spring and summer are around the corner and puberty is about to hit. Her Dad knows this. That's what I think this song is about. Interestingly, her father was a Methodist pastor and her first resident gig was playing piano in a gay bar when she was 13 years old. A lot of her father's friends were concerned about her safety at playing at such a place. He said that it was probably the safest place for a young girl to be playing at. I was obsessed with Tori Amos for a while there in the early '90s. Her first three albums are all masterpieces. Her later albums are probably great as well, but I drifted away from her music. With some artists they give you just what you need at a certain time in your life and Tori did this for me back then.

[@sidhedanu]

Yes, Tori is both kind and a force of peace. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting her at a meet and greet, but she's done literally hundreds. Photos and videos show her smiling and hugging and showing empathy. It's part of her process. She meets people, hears their stories, reads their letters, and finds inspiration for more songs about the human experience and growth. And then you hear the stories of those she's met and how much her support meant to them. How her music has saved lives. Tori's impact cannot be understated. She also cofounded RAINN, the Rape and Incest National Network. Her song, Me and a Gun, is partially autobiographical.

[@tonialoconte]

It's all true. I did interact with her at a meet and greet once, and she was amazing and totally willing to play along with my ridiculous photo request. To this day, every time I see her I'm reminded of her wonderful energy. It bugs me that she was often treated as a punchline by a lot of people who scoffed at her and dismissed her music based on a stereotype of her they learned from mainstream media or whatever. Just look at the quality of this performance. It's a sad commentary on our culture.

[@RogerDidierM.]

Tori is a rare talent. She writes mesmerizing songs and she also does covers of great songs that are sometimes better than the originals. She is on tour and she soon will be in my country. I can't wait...

[@brittreacts]

that is so cool you might get to see her live!

[@melissaisloud7404]

Tori Amos is amazing. Watch the live Montreux concert performance of “Me and A Gun”. She did it before this song in the set if I recall. It’s absolutely stilling and moving at the same time. Calling Tori a rebellious Disney princess is apt. She was the youngest person , a literally prodigy, to get into the most prestigious music school in the World and she got thrown out before even becoming a teen bc she was ‘musically insubordinate’. She was too gifted to play by their musical rules. She bends the rules and rewrites them, turning sound into feeling in effortless fashion.

[@RaspberrySwirl11]

Tori's dad was a pastor in southern church in Virginia. She was raised and sang in the church most her younger life. So you're interpretation is spot on...she and her parents were close and loving but she Tori or Mary Ellen to her parents was nothing like them and they embraced her and were her biggest cheerleaders. xoxo. Tori has a phenomenal catalogue.

[@Wungolioth]

It's Myra Ellen, not Mary, Mary was her mother's name.

[@RaspberrySwirl11]

@@Wungolioth Thank you for correcting me. I did know that, lol. Thank you 😀

[@mooneyes2833]

It's so exciting to see Tori Amos being discovered again...she was my entire late middle school early high school phase...I just love her

[@myopia2020]

You 'got' Tori in 24 seconds!👏 Tori is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant (esp. during her heyday in the 90s) and criminally underrated to this day.

[@jennlynnechancey]

I love seeing people experiencing Tori for the first time!!!! I've heard and seen this song so many times and I still get those emotions! She is an absolute virtuoso. ❤

[@mrjoshuads]

Everytime I listen to tori amos, I learn something new about a song I've heard dozens of time. She's got more talent in her pinky than anyone on the top charts today!

[@sirex02]

I'm an enchanted by your reaction...cause you get it. Tori Amos is a true child prodigy. She learned to play before she could walk at age two. Sixteen albums and over a thousand live shows performed. She's playing two shows at the Beacon theater at the end of june. Hope you get to see her. Life changing experience.

[@BrendanAshton]

I always take this to be a conversation between Tori and her dad and she believes she isn’t ready to move on but he is explaining to her that you are ready and whatever decisions you make they are yours and I will support you and I will always be there if you need me, and I’m proud of you and through the song she starts to get self belief and understands what he is trying to say to her and who he is to her and who she can be .

[@theglanconer6463]

Dad died young, and I already was at a low point in my life at the time, I played this song for him at his funeral. Thank you Tori.

[@gainesp2003gainesp]

Tori Amos songs are almost scary - so emotionally raw. It's hard to go with her to the places she takes you. Beauty with an undercurrent of danger.

[@greendragonpublishing]

Oh, Tori Amos is a goddess, simply a goddess. The emotion, fierceness, and etherealness of her entire being is legend. This is a great rabbit hole! Another incredible ethereal talent you may enjoy is Loreena McKennitt. The Mummer's Dance was her most popular piece, it was the theme song to the movie, Ever After. Other songs that are amazing: The Mystic's Dream, Night Ride Across the Caucasus, Skellig, The Old Ways, Bonny Portmore, Caravanserai, Lady of Shallott, Stolen Child, All Souls Night, The Bonny Swans... she does a lot of traditional (Irish/Scottish) songs, amazing instrumentation, incredible voice. She creates haunting worlds with her music.

[@sidhedanu]

"I feel like this song is up for interpretation and what someone is going through in life." Yes! You got it. Tori has said that she writes her songs with the guidance of the Muses. Like, the songs already exist and she's interpreting them through her own filter. Most of her songs are much more complex than this, actually. It's pretty straightforward comparatively. Tori doesn't usually explain meanings so that the songs can mean whatever they're meant to mean to whoever listens to them.

[@hackapump]

I think it is a coming of age tale, but also a declaration of love between daughter and father, and a recognition of the hopes and dreams he put on a shelf for the sake of her. The white horses represent her hopes and dreams, still dormant in the little girl, but in the final chorus they have ”gone ahead”, and her father encourages her to start following them.

[@MZ-bl6wg]

She’s had a rough life with love of a significant other and self love , her dad asks when she’s going to love (herself) as much as he loves her. As a dad of daughters that are my life this hits so hard.

[@ericdavison5434]

Tori's enchanting voice is like a mist above the beauty of her classical piano training.

[@brittreacts]

truly!

[@leavemealoneimjustfreespirted]

Absolutely love being suggested reactors like yourself! Tori has always been on a completely different level apart from most.✨️

[@lesterine77]

This was one of her first tours also. She is brilliant, my favorite artist since the 90s.

[@christopherscorner]

I think the word, enchanting, is the perfect word for Tori Amos.

[@Bensbarking]

Tori Amos is a legend. It was great watching your reaction! She does have some enchanting captivating presence for sure!

[@heatherwoods1319]

My favorites by her (besides this one) are Crucify and Silent All These Years. Amazing lyrics, powerful vocals.

[@paulrosenberg4227]

Storyteller extraordinaire and world class musician.

[@davidbaum88]

Tori Amos is a goddess and cannot be beaten. I adore her.

[@backwaternews9131]

I Love Tori.

[@99sheepy]

Glad you reacted to this live version. It captures how mesmerizing she is to watch. There is a deep catalog of songs, and live performances. From solo piano works, to performances with really high end backing bands. I'd recommend i i e e e (live session 1998) see her, and the band, get lost in an incredible groove. The song Icicle (Jay Leno Tonight Show) is again mesmerizing, and provocative for 90's live TV. Or, popular hits Silent All These Years, Crucify, and Cornflake Girl. There is so much to dive into with Tori, and she's still making music and touring, today.

[@danieljodrey]

The Goddess of Piano 🎹 She's as much a philosopher as a poet. Enchantress is a perfect description for her. Her music is pure magic. Vocally, instrumentally, EVERYTHING. This was a beautiful surprise this morning, Thank You Britt. You did a great job in your interpretation 🔥🔥🔥💖💖💖🎯 Several songs you need to hear of hers: Silent All These Years, Cornflake Girl and Northern Lad 💎 Love you ✌️💖🎼

[@caroline___]

"gently but fiercely". You nailed it!

[@mawrthvallis2788]

Your comments and reactions are so spot on. You got the true essence of Tori.

[@ScottRachelson777]

Tori Amos is phenomenally talented!

[@willieboy3011]

This is not my normal listening fare, but I got a CD by her years ago. I really liked her powerful voice, the dancing piano, and the emotional music. Now I am compelled to revisit her.

[@NathanCline12-21]

Love Tori Amos

[@dorothyannford8448]

She is FIRE! Her catalog is a deep and true substance. ❤

[@michyn4959]

I walked down the aisle to this song, I had a pianist playing it. It was beautiful!! I love it! I saw her live as well!!

[@mrjoshuads]

It is about rebellion...in a way. Her dad is a pastor and she grew up in the church and challenges her upbringing in many songs. 🙌🏼

[@blizzardofodds4220]

Britt, the first time I heard Tori Amos was from the Under the Pink Album which came out in the early 90's and I was sold. My favorite off that album is "Yes, Anastasia", "Pretty Good Year", "Past the Mission" "Bells for Her" She has an awesome catalog. Love the reaction it is spot on.

[@italysfavoriteson5339]

Your analysis is spot on, Britt. Your break down of Tori Amos was just as enchanting as her singing.

[@davidkoblentz]

yes tori is radiant... I have seen thousands of live shows, and even more bootlegs of everything from classical to death metal, tori was the best I ever saw, hands down, she controlled the entire audience, her sound, everything... so personal in a crowd of thousands... my fave band is King's X who are legends among those who know (other musicians love them) and they have provided me amazing moments over the years... but tori... damn.... she is so amazing on every level, performance, voice, intensity, delivery... sheesh...

[@shep4life]

Her voice is mesmerizing

[@Ed-qf6qu]

Love watching POC reacting to Tori. Can’t comprehend but enamored

[@jenspetersimonsen4235]

Tori Amos is one of a kind - absolute gem 🙂

[@faolanliath6687]

She's so talented it scares me a bit. Listening is like being hypnotized against your will. Tori Amos and Kate Bush are the only composers who can choke me up. Please don't tell my buds at the gun club. 🥺

[@jessicahimmel7867]

Absolutely love Tori ❤The best of the best

[@ShaunGuth]

Tori Amos was an inspiration for me to learn piano when I was a kid - she is a wonderful musician.

[@pamagnolia]

Phenomenal is a perfect description description of Tori. Such a wonderful talent! So glad you got to hear her. 😊

[@brittreacts]

agreed!

[@jonlate4581]

Know that she is a TRUE musical prodigy. A genious, she knows too much for her own good....

[@razycrandomgirl]

Tori Amos 'Cornflake Girl' is something to behold!

[@wulfgold]

If you look close she has ripped hands, lady can play piano like a beast when she wants. Such a true great.

[@nephtys369]

You must see her live. She’s a freaking force of nature.

[@AndImsomelady-fq6cw]

She is also the queen of taking a breath while singing and making it count.

[@Phrancis5]

So I've watched a dozen YT "reacts" videos for this song with the same emotional response and often tears. I'm old now, but lucky to have discovered Tori back in the 90's when I was in my 20's. Even though I usually defaulted to classic rock, techno, Beastie Boys, etc.. I couldn't ignore such immense musical talent and passion. I've seen her live 3 times - with the last time being a 1st date with a girl that I've now been married to for over 20 yrs.

[@littlenonni75]

She was the one of the youngest person at 5 to enter the Peabody institute. A prodigy

[@NotStanleyTucci]

She’s a piano prodigy who has an entirely unique style and voice. A true artist

[@Christopher-Baltimore]

Little Earthquakes can go toe to toe with any album.

[@briangevert3942]

I ❤ You! Such a great reaction to watch. So authentic. It was lovely to see someone experience Tori for the first time, feeling things I felt years ago! Keep on the tori journey!!!

[@tom7471]

Tori Amos is magnetic. I think she could sing and play the phone book and mesmerize her audience.... but she sings great songs, so we get truly lost in a good way. Great reaction.

[@BjornAgain76]

Welcome to Tori Amos, It's a lifelong beautiful ride 😀

[@lindseylinjones9324]

Tori Amos was one of the first Christian artists too cross over and become popular in mainstream music. I had the honor of meeting her when she came into my store to shop. She is just as kind in person as she seems to be.👍♥️🤘

[@leet9181]

Tori was awarded a full classical music scholarship to Peabody at John Hopkins at the age of 5 for music she composed on the piano prior (to being 5 years old) they revoked her scholarship when she was 11 due to "Musical Differences". She didn't want to be locked into classical only music composing.

[@polish78]

Your initial reaction and comment to her is amazing.

[@someoldguyinhawaii4960]

Delicate and fierce - perfect description

[@willfromyadkinville]

this whole album is so brilliant! she belongs to North Carolina! she is our musical treasure!

[@jamienerdahl9209]

She was a young piano prodigy..at age 5❗she was the youngest ever accepted to the peabody school i think its called..she was born with the abilty to see music as colors..i forgot the term for it..basicslly shes a genius❤❤

[@andrewkubat1506]

"Cornflake Girl", "Crucify", "Silent All These Years"

[@JoachimKessel]

One of my most beloved live performance of her. I think it was from "Rose d'Or" or Rose of Montreux.

[@JohnPavlovitz]

Enchanting. Perfect.

[@etarheel1]

Oh I had to see this one, I knew you would dial in in a few seconds. Loved watching you experience the beauty that is Ms. Amos. Beautiful soul huh

[@ericallen774]

Amazing song. Top shelf classic.

[@muffinamy83]

Her song "Happy Phantom" is my favorite piano from her. As a pianist, it's the most difficult of her songs I've attempted to play.

[@ByNewbs4Newbs]

Love her music, a true artist and her dynamics are top notch. wish i had 1% of her ability let alone her control of said ability. One of those musicians that make you realise 30+ of playing an instrument might as well have been 300 years i'll never be that good. Ok got to the end and i'm still lmao to "Rebellious disney princess song" I think that might sum up Tori Amos very well.

[@RebeccaWorters]

I love your reaction!

[@brittreacts]

thank you so much!

[@brianbigley1986]

One of the best artists of all time. ❤❤❤

[@markh.williamsauthor7286]

There is so much emotion in this song...

[@peartist2]

Just saw her last night here in omaha, NE. Her vocal range isn't what it was, but it was an incredible experience and I'm so happy i got to see her before I'm gone

[@gregjanover741]

The best way I feel is to describe Tori Amos is beautifully uncompromising

[@sandman9299]

Tori Amos on a piano is amazing to watch. Shes half-sitting, sometimes side saddle, half-standing...soft with one hand and knocking the keys off with the other

[@watkinry]

I think she's 28 here and had already been playing the piano for 25 years. She's one of a kind.

[@brittreacts]

that is awesome!

[@amyaeschbach3581]

Tori is everything! I’m late to the party of your reactions but you got a new subscriber today. I bought toris first album little earthquakes when I was a sophomore in high school when it came out and it became the album of my teenage years. I was blessed to see her live 1996. The most mesmerizing and enchanting show ever. Please please dive deeper especially into this album. Watch her live in concert in Paris I believe. Tori was a child prodigy who entered the Peabody school of music around age 5 I believe for the piano. She was a concert pianist, writer, poet and more. I have heard it said many times that Tori has more breath control and length in her singing because of it than any other artist ever! And she floats her voice on top of the music and whatever makes sense to her. This was a great reaction! Please try little earthquakes, precious thing, me and a gun and more. 🫶🏻❤️❤️✌️🥹

[@laurabuer4714]

This song makes me bawl every time. Tori can rock a piano. This transition through life, the relationships we have, and having a father's love and support is absolutely enchanting. Tori is in a cannon of her own. Makes sense that she's very good friends with Neil Gaiman, Maynard James Keenan, and Trent Reznor.

[@rogueleader4181]

Tori is a wonder. This song is so emotive and the vocals powerful.

[@brittreacts]

she is amazing!

[@xxfaerietalesxx]

Delicate and Fierce is the best way to describe Tori. My mother birthed me; Tori raised me. Seen her 13+ times…met her 10 of those times. She is…beautiful. Inside and out. Huge LGBTQIA+ and womens health and safety. She and Mick Foley started the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network. RAINN. she is everything and more to me. i love watching your reaction. And she, live, straddles the piano and also plays her synth - one hand on each. She is the absolute truth. 🖤

[@hilarywilkes7853]

One of my top 2 favorite songs of hers. Tori - "This is for my Dad." Me - "This is for my Dad as well, battling Parkinson's and Lung Cancer."💔🙏❤

[@brittreacts]

I will keep those in mind, thanks!

[@jennlynnechancey]

I so relate Hilary! I've listened to Tori since the early 90s, with my Dad probably in the room next to me. Lost my Daddy to throat cancer in 2018, and now this song hits on so many other levels. ❤

[@hilarywilkes7853]

@@jennlynnechancey OH honey, I'm so sorry for your loss!💔 This is a perfect tribute to our Dad's. Much love and hugs to you sweetheart!

[@andyh4224]

Oh my gosh, I'm so happy you reacted to this. You Rock Britt!

[@thegoatchild3545]

An artist in the truest, purest sense of the word. This woman is 🤯.

[@brittreacts]

she is amazing!

[@kcrowder7]

More Tori!! So many layers in her music.

[@mattiusgabe7354]

"I'm trying to live in 'fierce calm'." - Tori Amos

[@brittreacts]

Love that!

[@sarajade5111]

She's a once in a lifetime kind of artist.

[@stephenjames5745]

Yeah that was gorgeous!

[@Sd3cinema]

Oh more tori please!!

[@Wikkens70]

My favorite part lyrically is the imagery of the white horses. They represent the forces in life that will pull her and her father apart (basically just growing up into a woman). In the first two choruses they were still in bed. There is still time, but her father says she must decide (make up your mind) and she doesn't believe him thinking things will always be this way. By the third chorus the pull of the world has happened, and the white horses have gone ahead. She is reluctant to leave but knows she must. When she says "Never change" she is swearing to always remember to return when she can and honor herself. Beautiful.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

Great song! ♥