Tori Amos Doughnut Song Live on CBS

Tori Amos performs Doughnut Song live on the CBS Morning Show in 1996.

[@justinsomething]

i love that a lot of tori's appeal has to do with how she expresses passion and genuine feeling in her delivery of often arguably cryptic lyrics... it allows a listener/viewer to appropriate their own meaning while maintaining and reinforcing the emotional intensity of and a visceral connection to the song.

[@gravelroadpress5026]

well said

[@stevensmusicblog]

Yes!!!

[@ccor6762]

what a beautiful way to put it!

[@WOMENOFTROY]

I wish she wouldn’t say that she’s just an ok player. That piano is an extension of her body and she plays it like no one else. Top notch musician.

[@d11j09l92]

One simply cannot measure the genius of Tori Amos. ❤

[@jutjubow]

I have only became familiar with Tori Amos as an adult. What an artist! And this little performance is so lovely and vintage!

[@casandrabullock9497]

that's my favourite track on that record, in fact that record is probably my favourite out of all her work-she's amazing

[@miguelmarquez4192]

Come in houston ☺

[@robchavez2167]

Putting the damage on with that fluggle horn is my fav on this album... Did you know that for professional widow she recorded the noises of bison in heat and that the sound you hear in the begening

[@charlottewebster4233]

I remember buying this album the day it was released and being so taken aback, unsure and disappointed at first. I dunno what it was maybe just the angry feel, the harpsichord or brass which I couldn't wrap my head around at 16yrs old. Then after giving it chance I remember suddenly realising I was in love with her use of brass. It crept up on me too and that crisp clear trumpet in Father Lucifer made me all “Hang on when did I not love this??” Putting the Damage on is one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking songs and I didn't know until a few years ago “Motormaids of Japan” was initially going on the album but she scratched it at the last. I can see why thought. They're almost the same song and equally stuning and heartbreaking.

[@ceresasmom]

Impressed with how much he actually knew about her.

[@Jim1971a]

Trust me. He didn’t know anything. He probably never heard of her before and his staff gave him a few notes and he asked a few questions he probably didn’t care about.

[@juliamaraviglia2132]

always one of my favorite tracks... used to play it on repeat

[@AdamSmithMusic]

I love these old clips from Tori fans where you can tell it’s recorded on a vcr because you see a second of the next clip. I had volumes of vhs tapes like these from back in the day. Thanks for sharing btw

[@sakreh7755]

Recorded it myself! 😂

[@AdamSmithMusic]

@@sakreh7755 You Rock!!! Great Quality

[@jessc8721]

I love this song, she will be forever one of my favorite artists

[@TarasTarot]

It’s like I was designed to listen to this, couldn’t love it more

[@melissadana7829]

I forgot that she had a Bosendorfer all the way back in '96. It must have been amazing to own such a magnificent marvel of engineering and beauty at such a young age.

[@r.j4449]

She still has them. 2.

[@melissadana7829]

@@r.j4449 Yes, but she's older and wealthy now, so it's not surprising she would stay with what she loves. In fact she talks about her pianos as living things. But very, very few twenty-somethings get to play on such a sophisticated instrument.

[@charlottewebster4233]

I think (not 100%) she had it from Under the Pink cos I remember the contrast between that and the knackered clickety old upright used on Bell for Her

[@almandragoran]

@@charlottewebster4233Yeah, she bought her first Bösendorfer in 1993, before recording Under the Pink.

[@tanyaphantom2076]

that thumbnail for the vid, lmao!!!😂😂😂

[@miguelmarquez4192]

awesome. i was so captivated by her as an angsty teen! thanks for holding on to this and posting

[@erika9763]

Miguel Marquez Early Tori is great for your angsty teen years. Still holds up when your 40 too!

[@dddsabong]

incredibly beautiful

[@jacobrhodes7433]

I love Doughnuts.

[@sorcerer1975]

Fucking BRILLIANT ! Love this song and this lady !

[@Andrew-fh2dx]

Goddess.

[@brodancobnya9193]

she plays OKAY? FALSE MODEST, TORI PLAYS AWESOME!

[@jacobrhodes7433]

Such a pretty. Nice Music. If I'd have known years ago she was this pretty, I would've looked her up way back.

[@deathmetalpotato]

Jesus, what’s up with that thumbnail. Who’s the ex she’s talking about? Trent Reznor? I hate that guy.

[@ixora2319]

Some tracks are are about Trent, but most are about Eric Rosse

[@PorcupineGirl]

Eric Rosse was her producer and “love interest” during Earthquakes and Pink. Their relationship began to disintegrate and was only made worse when Tori suffered a miscarriage while touring. That trauma inspired much of the content of Choirgirl. For instance, “Spark,” “Black Dove,” “Liquid Diamonds,” and “Playboy Mommy” all heavily reference the theme of loss and rejection so intrinsic to some women’s journey to motherhood. However, Pele is definitely the grief, anger, self-loathing, loss, etc that come from a failed relationship. And also turning that sadness on it’s head and utilizing anger as a way to move through it. Most importantly, Pele’s theme is being brutally honest with oneself about their own role in creating these disappointments and using that fire to move ON, sis!

[@pearlgirl5643]

@@PorcupineGirl her miscarriages were with her current husband, Mark Hawley, before they were married.

[@almandragoran]

@@PorcupineGirlTori and Eric Rosse were together for many years. Their relationship fell apart during the Pink tour in 1994, which incidentally was also when she met her husband Mark Hawley (who was her sound engineer on that tour). Tori and Mark were together by the time she recorded Boys for Pele. The miscarriages that informed Choirgirl happened after the end of the Dew Drop Inn Tour in 1996, and then again during the publicity tour for To Venus and Back in 1999.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

This Tori no lon ger exisrs

[@the92project]

well this was more than 20 years ago. We all change

[@jflem8332]

Piggy-218 or does she? Maybe you just cannot see her like so many of us can. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@lorenzoorzari4996]

Every incarnation of Tori Amos exists forever.