Tori Amos "Butterfly" (1995)

[@revolutionday1]

Will never NOT make me think of the movie Higher Learning......

[@MatMurk]

Definitely my favorite Tori song, and one of my favorite songs period. Higher Learning had one of the best soundtracks ever. It was as diverse as the movie itself. Seemed like each song had a touch of magic to it...

[@bookwormofthedamned]

Right! The movie and soundtrack are so underrated and the movie's subject is still relevant today. The movie and soundtrack are classic.

[@neoliberalism]

This is such a quintessential Tori song. The rhythm, lyrics, topic, vocal range, haha. Utterly beautiful.

[@keithgeezee]

Tori had me locked in a trance. I wish this song were 7 minutes long...

[@lottetwilt9098]

Same

[@Aerialgrrl]

Her outfit is very Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. How I miss the nineties.

[@pleasant_screams903]

Willow probably borrowed. 😍

[@alans2418]

I absolutely love this song! Tori is so magical live.

[@MariahYanez]

I once seen a couple with ears like Tori's back in 2006 on public transportation. I was on my way to college and this couple about 4 feet tall, pale, well dressed with ears like Tori's, but more pointed at the top! I could tell they were trying to hide it with their hair and how they sat in most available seats next to the door and didn't make eye contact with ANYONE! I was looking all around at everyone and nobody seemed to notice! That couple got off a few stops ahead. I'll NEVER forget that! They looked like Elves or fairies! Something else happened to me like that many years later and it was many people around and I was the only who noticed! We live in a wonderfully strange world!

[@JBsoable]

One of the most stellar performances ever recorded. 🥲🥹

[@longlonggone]

This is why I love Tori Amos. This is the top of the mountain!

[@GreenHypnotic]

this song gives me goosebumps..the song is so nostalgic

[@BnaiHaShem]

Higher Learning!

[@JulietteZephyr]

That was a fantastic movie. I can't think of any other film like it that can quite hold a candle to it, or that really explores racial/sexual issues as effectively as that film did. Everyone was raving about 'Dear White People,' but they should've seen this movie instead/first - hits you right at the core and goes unapologetically deep

[@ATLAS-jn9fj]

i love this song, and it was via that movie i heard Tori Amos, good flick too :)

[@peterpratsch7223]

“They like you better framed and dried”. We must fight for freedom because it it one of the last truly human qualities left on this planet.

[@mat-4636]

Beautiful woman, Beautiful song, very talented pianist and vocalist ❤️

[@IndyAmy46214]

I never tire of this performance of Butterfly! One of my favs!

[@yvetteclaire]

Gives me goosebumps too. She has an incredible, spine tickling voice. Tori is amazing.

[@davidsaintcrystal]

Her songs are so punishingly sad and beautiful.

[@tumblingdown]

A perfect performance from our brilliant Tori. *Puts on Repeat*

[@propertyofranger]

I love this song so much, and this version is particularly wonderful. Oh, I love ths woman. :o)

[@NutsAboutHarry]

one of my favorite tori songs ever.

[@ungrowchy]

One of my favorites ❤

[@Jolycola]

Simply the most amazing performance I have seen in a very long time. She is truly in a class of her own. Thank you ever so much for posting it.

[@SmileUBetch]

the movie was higher learning. fell in love with this song. and now i listen to alot of tori amos. she's great...and i never would have known if it wasnt for this song

[@JustCammie]

This song always gives me chills.

[@sargentwrecker]

shes still a great singer after years shes proved her self well and shes still very beautiful her music really speaks for its self love you tori!

[@airsquad1]

Talk about a VOICE from HEAVEN,and with LOVELY BEAUTY 2 WOW US ALL.Much Love,Happiness,Health 2all Beings of BEAUTIFUL LIGht.

[@IluvNY081]

i love me some 90's tori! she is tragically excellent.

[@queensbanker28]

she's angelic.. defined mid 90's for me

[@johng81818]

I always get so sad when I hear this song.😭❤️🎶

[@killbridekill]

that voice......

[@wolfphile1]

This song. In my head. Every night.

[@sargentwrecker]

As i set here ive got goose bumps listening to the song thinking about the movie and almost in tears this song is so powerful in a good way i cant explain it its shes perfect no matter what,shes very beautiful and people should listen to the music and not worry about if she had plasic surg, or not . The music is what its all about her voice the way she gets into our hearts with her words and music Tori please dont ever stop will all be here for you .

[@goodtimetone]

this is my fav song of all time

[@smugmarty74]

Yes these were the nineties.... time flies

[@cyanidechrist]

@PRetTYFaCE716 You said it man, beautifully miseralbe. That first piano riff draws me into myself.

[@digitalghost89]

this is an amazing song! her wave at the end is so cute ^^ hehe

[@mbop75]

'general' is a reference to General Jim Joy (who she sings about on the Beekeeper album as well. "butterfly", framed and dried is a wink to the code name MK ULTRA monarch programming. Our gal, Tori has been through so much...

[@hasinethorpe1495]

Hi I am hd Thorpe, bladensbrug md I grew up watching the tonight show with jay Leno for years i see so many musical guest come on from years from sugarland jennifer nettles to usher to Toni Braxton to Britney Spears but one favorite musical guest and female musical artist is tori amos I was spellbound singing and the way she play piano and the magical hands when she plays the piano i am shock and ahh for the talent i also say here on another tonight show signing it was the tonight show with Conan o she was singing popular songs cornflake girl and song was pure outstanding and magical storytelling i can get my head at that I wanted more and more after the as over baker baker the song butterfly was on movie and movie soundtrack in 1994 or 1995 movie higher learning and on the Conan show cornflake girl and baker baker sing 1993 or 1994 I was in middle school 8th grade and high school 9th grade when I watched thanks for blast past in music thank bye!

[@madnote43]

Just so good.

[@amylh322]

Oh wow! I remember watching this over and over with my Tori girls, trying to figure out her skirt :-D I think we decided it used to be a pair of sweat pants that were cut!:) (and i think she wore it on one of the singles from Pele??) She's so stylish now but her "old" outfits were always fun! And the song? LOVE IT!!!

[@itchysun]

this song was featured on the Higher Learning soundtrack along with Losing my Religion.

[@airsquad1]

Hello Lovely TORI,I saw You play Your Magic in Santa Barbara.Please Lovely LOVE TORI come back 2 Santa Barbara ASAP.When Tori PLAYS the WHOLE UNIVERSE STOPS 2 LISTEN 2 this Gorgeous Lovely Magical Light.

[@coolgirly08]

love this song its just so beautifully random!!

[@goodtimetone]

a brilllllllll song she gave me a hug once very pretty woman

[@user-kb5fd7ox4n]

Such a unigue talent! always a fan xxx

[@hudlifuk]

that ear!

[@trestinhowell4073]

Beautiful song 🥂

[@janiawashere]

Higher Learning !!!!

[@Elkins82ify]

Wow!! She sounds better live, beautiful.

[@colubrinedeucecreative]

chills!

[@Chrysalis990]

2020 I'm ready.

[@goodtimetone]

brill............ just great

[@zimmy81]

shes so good,probably one the best hybrid alien/humananiod entertainers of the that minute that day, i still love her

[@latnboii]

I love you Tori

[@xingxing14]

the best version

[@empathcaroline2586]

Amazing

[@rastaewabeach]

That's all her. No auto tuning bs.

[@Exceedvictory]

This is my first song. What do fans recommend?

[@Jrebecleee]

The Waitress, Pretty Good Year, Cornflake Girl

[@tattedupdaceo3174]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

[@PanthORandPonAY]

@PRetTYFaCE716 That describes the way I feel when I hear Tori...EXACTLY.

[@goodtimetone]

she gave me a hug once

[@Alistair1980]

This song and losing my religion from higher learning wow just wow 👏

[@blueearthquake]

2023 ❤

[@jessicatron]

yeah me too. i had this on vhs years ago- it's worn out. lol

[@goodtimetone]

its my favourite.....

[@amylh322]

She really looks better as she ages! I think she stays out of the sun - sigh. I'm just going to have to be an age spotted old lady! :)

[@MySensualWorld]

Happy Birthday Tori!

[@StsSunnyCharlie]

love tori!

[@dierretaylor]

AGREED!

[@mbop75]

Tori takes her literary background and references sylvia plath poetry with "daddy if I can kill one man why not two'...Dr./Rev Edison Amos is the one who sold his daughter into the program.

[@LiquidEye]

Wow, I feel old.

[@haitianradience]

Higher learning

[@airsquad1]

LOVELY MAGICAL TORI,I saw Y PLAY at the NOKIA Theatre.It WAS LOVE at FIRST SIGHT.PLEASE COME BACK BEAUTIFUL LOVE and PLAY for US.I LOVE YOU ALWAYS LOVE.This TIME I WILL BRING a HUGE BOUQUET of RED ROSES,Y HAVE THE WORD of MY SPIRIT,PLEASE COME back 2 LOS ANGELES SOON,T CARE BEAUTIFUL HONEY.

[@WasteFaced]

tori is infinite

[@Machell]

Amos/Amos ❤❤

[@mbop75]

@sTapleEVA that's my job. you're not the only one confused :) Happy Holidays!

[@luxcretia2]

which reasonable person cares wether she`s had this or that or not?if done and she pleases better herself, good. she is pretty and she has a beautiful voice in particular.period.

[@amylh322]

That's true - good thought!!

[@datura1983]

hmm i might learn to play this. its pretty.

[@goodtimetone]

she is a rare beauty

[@Clock_70]

My, has time flown

[@Sensationnelle]

Yeah that was a good movie but sad ending I cried at the end.

[@pumpkinpjays]

One of her best TV appearances! Does anyone know where this was taped? ...well, nurses smile...

[@verballyunspoken]

@mrzebra239 Its from the movie "Higher Learning"..its on the soundtrack.

[@amylh322]

Just Higher Learnng - except she did do it in concert a lot so it'll be on some bootlegs - i'll have to have some help with which ones. You can go check some of the really detailed web sites and see what boots it turns up on!

[@Alki46D]

Tori, can you and Maynard come to my house and sing me to sleep? I'd appreciate it. In fact, if I win the lottery I'll pay you to live with me and just sing to me. Ugh, can't sleep. That helped though. Time to go pass out.

[@edoardovirgilio5680]

When Tori Amos was Tori Amos.

[@KaidtFace123]

I really think some of it is her weight now. She's tiny. She was never so skinny, and I think her gaunt face makes her seem different. I don't know, though, I think maybe some other factors too but people sometimes forget her quite different size now... She's lovely now though, too. I love Tori always, I can't believe she's like, 46... she's amazing.

[@rubenmarquez9593]

2020

[@coral_seas]

It's on the Higher Learning soundtrack.

[@IluvNY081]

mr. zebra, your a little nutty aren't ya? noone is a bigger tori fan than I am. And if someone new wants to discover her, what's wrong with that? they will read her fine print eventually.

[@davidvonbarany]

and Madonna is also always refering to Sylvia Plath :)

[@krissyhagen4807]

Sylvia Plath wasn't published until she died. Lana Del Ray also refers to Sylvia Plath. I've been writing poems and short stories since I was 6. Wrote my first song at age 4. Boxes and boxes of my poems went missing. They left me with one box.

[@kctoeknee]

Not on any of Tori's CDs....

[@GolfTool]

I totally agree. It's so sad that the MTV generation listens to music with their eyes. You have to be marketable to sell your music. That is why we have all these Britney Spears types that can't sing but can sell sex. Is this the porn or music industry? It reminds me of how everyone judged the older women from Scotland who wasn't so easy on the eyes but very easy on the ears. Being a musician, I mostly listen to my favorite songs with my eyes closed except for when I'm driving of course.

[@MrAssemblea]

nathalie giannitrapani! tori's fan. rai 2 x-factor!!!!

[@raininmyeyes77]

I have black wings✨✨✨✨✨

[@emmakorhonen]

oooooooooooooh! I love this song!

[@amylh322]

I don't think it's a Nationality thing :) She translates well in some places and poorly in the same. She lives in England but grew up in the US, so... heck if i know :)

[@MatMurk]

That's not true there's a lot of good songs on the Higher Learning soundtrack. Both this And Tori's Losing my Religion cover is on it, Raphael Saadiq's "Ask Of You", Eve's Plum has a really good song on it (that is practically impossible to find) Zhane, Liz Phair, Ice Cube, and a bunch more. Besides you can buy it used off Amazon for $2, so it's not like you'll be making a huge investment. Take care.

[@BoysForPele1989]

@tempotantrum exactly, do they even comprehend the lyrics. Obviously Tori is about substance. It's very sexist. As a feminist, her choices as a woman are her own to make. I don't understand how their are Tori fans who don't get that when body snarking her. She's a musician people, save it for Entertainment tonight.

[@daviddean789]

who gives a shit whether or not she had plastic surgery, it is her business!!!!!

[@heyheytaytay]

I love her but she sometimes looks like she's going to swallow the mic whole...this is an amazing song I remember first hearing on a movie ending credits

[@Lievekevonk]

@prettylidi14 I am!