Sirenic vocalist Tori Amos in Studio Q

www.cbc.ca/Q
American songstress Tori Amos made a name for herself in the 90's as an alternative artist with albums like "Little Earthquakes", "Under the Pink", and "Boys for Pele", and with her latest album "Night of Hunters" she finally tries her piano-playing hand at classical music.

[@lifemusic1980]

I've been listening to this every night to fall asleep. Her voice is peak asmr.

[@joyce_oates]

I know! Glad it helps you sleep ❤

[@Wbeinner]

Yes! Love her music, but hadn't listened to her talk b4. didn't know why I felt so fuzzy!

[@pluviophile1988]

One of the most insightful genuine and intelligent female figures of our time.

[@aysi7622]

One of the best musician and artistes out there.....always an inspiration!

[@spacedoginnebraska]

I always seem to get a new understanding of her every time I listen, whether it's her music or speaking. Sharp as a new razor, she is.......

[@HoochieCoocher]

This interviewer is fantastic. Tori gives her best when she's challenged a little bit, and this wasd utterly brilliant.

[@AleksandraKaziszyn-xn7sl]

Yes, and her voice rises at the end and we get to see the spicy Tori that comes through in a lot of her songs. I like to see that little kick she delivers, I like to hear her inner fire in her voice.

[@formerlyarandompropernameb9327]

Around 712 713 or so minutes in, and she talks about being trained under a learn sister Earnesteen-just immediately quickened the lyric and caught a lite sneeze “....I’m hiding it well sister Ernestine, but I still got them bells dragging my foots”.... another tiny insight into the lyrics and why she chose them.

[@creamundi3280]

Total respect about the album. Don't mind it being totally different from whatever she did in the past. Love it. Love all here music. Just don't compare the albums. But see them as individual beauties.

[@saoirsecruise6713]

Definitely!

[@SwtPoison7]

Beautiful insane genius..loved her since day 1 and always will...

[@seekah1]

Thankyou so much for this vid. An intelligent interviewer finally.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Good interview! Tori Amos is such a brilliant artist, musician, songwriter. So unique and original! An iconic goddess in the music industry.

[@kevinrombouts3027]

Incredibly intelligent interview. Kudos to both of you.

[@jardinierdetournesol]

Awesome interview. Excuse me for being late to the party. I was a fan since the release of little earthquakes, but a life tragedy when I was so young had me recoil from the difficult topics, anger, resentment, pain, defiance, even though I loved the music, I couldn’t travel with Tori anymore as I was seeking innocence-funny that a favorite band then as still now is the innocence mission. But Tori’s latest release has me playing catch up…since 1994 lol. I guess, like me, she grew up. Don’t know why that didn’t occur to me but I’m loving the woman she’s become 🙏🏻❤️

[@blackwash]

Definitely one of my favourite artists in the world...of any kind.

[@richardds9]

Fantastic interview! Tori is so eloquent and engaging. She’s one of those singers whose speaking voice is as lovely as her singing voice. I have the album they’re talking about and it is a beautiful work of art.

[@carlamathy5330]

As always her brilliance is breathtaking, per usual.❤

[@bandrew1442]

Two of the loveliest speaking voices.

[@DemonKittyx19]

Night of Hunters my top 3 albums of hers! The Chase is my favorite, Cactus Practice, and Night of Hunters, seven sisters is just amazing.

[@forestdweller8164]

@TurboCMinusMinus I agree with Lukas 100%. Give Scarlet's Walk a few listens. Yes it doesn't sound like her first 4 albums but it's so cohesive and such a joy to listen to. The bass player and drummer really shine thru as well and the lyrics are fantastic. Just try it out, you'll be glad you did!

[@jennifermcfadin5251]

@@forestdweller8164 Scarlets Walk is divine that and FTCGH are my favorite but NOTH is brilliant

[@wolffbites]

this held me like a high powered magnet--- not to be missed--- thank you both

[@BrittnyShrub]

Such a lovely, thoughtful interview. I love when her interviews feel like conversations.

[@millicentbistander]

In other news... Tori Amos is brilliant. Great interview.

[@tastelesstouch]

Her story kind of reminds me a bit of Queen’s gambit. She was this young musical prodigy that was just trying to do what she was meant to do and had to deal with all of these obstructions on her way through

[@vins1979]

totally agree with you! FTCH is a true artistic masterpiece!!! And what about the videos of "Spark" and "Raspberry Swirl"? Pure genius.

[@sarahm.4926]

Such class 👑 💕 thank you Tori for everything 💋

[@zaalazar]

she is something else !!!

[@Floreal88]

love her, such an inspiration and a light!!

[@adamblack5088]

Dreamy dreamy dreamy voice of Tori !

[@TheViola39]

Intelligent interviewer. You can see that she really enjoys it....such a pleasure to watch it

[@MitchQuintana]

Agreed! Apparently, he is on trial for multiple counts of sexual assault. Just found this out. Shocking.

[@rebeccawhite5128]

+Mitch Quintana Yep. He apparently did some very bad things. It's too bad he ruined his career. He was good at it. He's getting a lot of very thoughtful things from her.

[@MitchQuintana]

+Rebecca White Agreed!

[@mikerandle8538]

great interviewer and woman hater. Jian Gomeshi is the absolute worst.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

Mike Randle Well, this comment didn’t age well, did it? Or is he still guilt because he was accused? Those women should have been put away for their crimes. Believing anyone (man or woman) with absolutely nothing to go on is a tradgedy.

[@lonnekekalf7471]

She is amazing

[@jennifermcfadin5251]

I love going and find her interviews she's amazing I love NOTH FTCGH OCEAN TO OCEAN I cannot say she has a album I don't like. From day one...

[@nicolas2970]

Wow what a fabulous interview she is truly a trail blaser composer/musician !

[@mellraizer]

one of the best tori interviews. inspiring & thought provoking. thanks.

[@endezeichengrimm]

6:48 So that's who sister Ernestine is

[@carolsantsna4416]

Tori NYC misses you. When should we expect to see you again?

[@kimberkisscosmicqueen]

I love her

[@Vindrag]

2:46 made me laugh out loud! So fun! "For 5000 years" =) Great interview this is! Night Of Hunters is undoubtedly one of her best albums. Maybe THE #1?

[@raisingirl88]

Amazing interview... Amazing person! So much love for her and her works

[@RosePetal17]

Toronto's own Jian Ghomeshi....one of our best. He used to be in a band himself called "Moxy Fruvous", so he really relates extremely well with other Musicians. He's really in tune with them!!!! I went off in a tangent about him, but respect Tori enormously!!!

[@klistarf]

Superb interview, from both protagonists. This had me spellbound for the full thirty minutes. Thank-you... \m/ (:o)

[@PreciousYouAre]

i absolutely adore tori, and i have to add i really enjoyed the interviewer and his questions too a lot (maybe especially because i watched a ryan seacrest interview before...) :D

[@demonhoopa]

Brilliant interview.

[@JAG82]

Wow, great interview very inciteful & very talented women.

[@alexandereckert5939]

she’s like a different person from when she’d be interviewed or filmed in the entire 90s

[@wheremysparkis]

love the bit where she so graciously and wholly blows out of the water the notion of her daughter being a fan of Justin Beiber

[@FalardeMusicaeLegal]

The interviewer is engaged we get great Tori reaction. Loved this.

[@modarXmodar]

looove her

[@goodtimetone]

she is Gold

[@huivert21]

good. i like this one from Tori.

[@Luvie1980]

Great interview.

[@itisthefear]

i agree the album from the choirgirl hotel was way more commercial than the scarlets walk album. you can also see the quality between the songs in the 2 albums Scarlets walk has some epic songs in it. Tori is amazing and she full of knowledge and tht makes her unique

[@jasoncp514]

"You're German, you'll get over it." :-)

[@skylark9450]

love you tori 🪶

[@mikkolatube]

To listen to what she's speaking about at around 18 minutes and then to consider what happened to J. Ghomeshi a few years later. Again, she was onto something, lost as it might have been in this interview.

[@Morfeusm]

She is wise

[@datura1983]

yeah understood.. i just want her to be healthy and live a long life.. too many musicians due to stress, drugs, eating disorders and so on die too young.. dont want to see that happen to her..

[@MySensualWorld]

She should have corrected him right away, she was accepted into the peabody conservatory at the age of 5 not 6.

[@mrblisterfist]

~Resolutely Brilliant! -the end.

[@raisingirl88]

Well, there are masterpieces also in FTCH like Liquid Diamonds, Pandora's Acquarium for example... They are simply two very different albums, written in two very different periods of her life...

[@Wayneferreiro]

I am happy to see that Tori is in a positive mood with the time, but i prefered the first 4 albums, yes it was commercial but i liked it, i didn't appreciate the covers albums that she did after 1999 and i was less interested by her maturity music, and i liked yet the video and music of the single "A sorta fayritale"

[@TheHypernaught]

Tori owes us a duet with Metallica, Nile or Anaal Nathrakh. her music, although on a softer instrument, resonates with the energy of metal and punk. Stop being artsy Tori get some distortion down for us. Take a risk!

[@maternalsoulcat]

I am jealous that my own mind does not work the way Tori's does but I suppose we can't all be divine genius' ;)

[@elizabethgode1763]

😘❤🥰🙏

[@janknuckey]

Completely off-piste here, but I am so glad Tori is enjoying dressing-up with jewellery !!! I mean she wore those god-damn little tin earrings for like 20 years !!!

[@mithramusic5909]

Haha I cracked up at that part. I don't think he was trying to "outwit" her, I think he was just joking with her, but she did a 180 and made sense out of it.

[@spacedoginnebraska]

I'm reading how great the interviewer is here, but I find him intteruptive and condescending, which in turn makes Tori reply in a bit of a condescending tone. Good interview overall, thankfully.

[@HybridFalcon]

Does anyone else ever wonder how Tori will live on in history?

[@carolsantsna4416]

I WANNA SEE YOU!!! When can Nyc expect you?

[@amylynnhunt55]

Go to her website or Facebook. Tori didn't post this herself.

[@virgyniah]

At least one clever interviewer, once in a while!

[@jimdreads]

Fucking brilliant response! Ditto :)

[@alexandereckert5939]

what happened to her appearance post 2007?

[@amylynnhunt55]

Diuretic? Well, I guess "sirenic' is not a word my spellcheck likes :0)

[@bettyemachetetmi5005]

@Amy Lynn Hunt My spell check sucks but on my non work phone, it's the predictive text that I have been seeing an insight into how much I really have a very twisted way of speaking or how many people I have met in my stories (I collect stories..telling them, hearing from others, passing those on..) and I will be up texting a friend in the UK about the times l was in a sideshow in Coney Island when I was 20... and I have a personal phone that saves each time you use a sentence and a specific example that tops "diuretic" would be when I WAS referring to the sideshow at 3am texting overseas and I said "and it was not a cool deal to bring kids to. We had a bilateral hermaphrodite and a ringmaster who shot bottle rockets out his rear end as a finale of sorts." I remember the sentence because it was a few days later I was texting a former employer who I managed a bar and I was typing the word "shot glass" or intended to and the rest of the previous sentence immediately after the earlier use of "shot" and I accidentally hit send. He replied "From the butt?" Just yet another story of a kind I had to share because I was horrified but it was also a good laugh after the fact. 😉

[@QueerSwede1]

Her daughter is obviously a genius, rejecting bieber over holiday, that´s deep:)

[@pluviophile1988]

Really sorry, I wasnt trying to be mean. It was just that what she was saying was so amazing so yeah..

[@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974]

Wow….perfect people ….Zgods

[@datura1983]

tori looks lovely here. looks like she put on a little weight which is a good thing for a women when she gets a bit older. hope she allows herself to age gracefully and not worry too much about hollywood standards.

[@BooNube]

Divine or sirenic, which is it?

[@04jhowarth]

Tori OWNED him at 19:20

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

James Howarth is that how you measure that? It was way more like a shared joke. Not a power level-up.

[@HawkOfGP]

I wish you possessed the grammar for me to understand what you're saying good interview

[@alexlundell2947]

@TheHypernaught Amos has consistently taken risks throughout her career, you really don't know what you're talking about

[@tlansing18]

Alex you may have overlooked the intent on the remark made

[@mithramusic5909]

I see where you're coming from, I thought you meant in a more mean-spirited way where I saw it as playful.

[@pluviophile1988]

thats what youre focusing on?!

[@LaughingMan44]

ಠ_ಠ

[@millicentbistander]

Ya, wow. How will Jian ever recover from Tori's 'own'. Good eye. Did you catch this one... Laptop 'owns' Jian's hand at 22:52 by forcing him to move it up out of it's face. Nice one laptop. You so clever.

[@pluviophile1988]

Oh, okay. sorry

[@Pioneer78]

Well.. I don't think Mozart had weird musical spats live though, I can't recall seeing anything involving him grinding instruments, or touching himself in concert, and Einstein couldn't play his violin to start with. So can we really compare? My original comment was to knock someone off their cloud and to drop the candle they so dearly hold for Tori, it was getting too sickly sweet. I'm sure she get's tired of these people just the same, and maybe acts weird to keep them at a distance.

[@SillySahli]

You're a bit of a monster... I don't care for what you've said. It's rude and reductive...

[@Scotty_Russell_Music]

not really digging her slavish devotion to the "funding" aspect of music. If a woman goes off and does variations on the dead guy it does mean something,it's quite "punk" or "d-i-y" ,i'm surprised the commercial recognition of music is so important to her.

[@sisterseeth]

It requires funding for distribution of the product. If the funding isn't there from a label, then she's doing street performance to promote. I would love that, but that's not her model. I think it goes beyond materialism to an actual functioning process. Get your cell and record a home movie. Ok, now hire someone to go thru the hours of footage and edit it because you're too busy working out the background and lighting. Now, make sure it's in every major distributor so that when the demand for the film hits, you'll be prepared. Also, be ready for several thousand to be destroyed due to not selling in rural areas... You'll need lofty insurance for that. Then there's the physical cost of the packaging. Then go on the road with 4 tons of equipment and do a 80 city tour. Yes, she's gonna need funding first. I think you may be confusing "slavish devotion to funding" with being a business owner as well as an artist.

[@carolsantsna4416]

Tori NYC misses you. When should we expect to see you again?