Tori Amos - Winter (Live) *DayOne Reacts*

[@shep4life]

Her voice is mesmerizing

[@EC-dz3fb]

𝐍𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 to apologize for feeling something deeply. It's beautiful. ♡

[@markh.williamsauthor7286]

This song makes me cry every time I hear it.

[@rogueleader4181]

I tear up every time. Haunting. Emotive. Storytelling at its finest.

[@johnnyappleseed5590]

This song makes me feel emotional and I’m a grown man who trained in martial arts for many years, lol. Tori Amos makes you feel her music, if you have a heart you don’t have a choice in the matter. God bless you young lady, amazing reaction!

[@Anomondaris]

I have loved this song for over 30 years. It always reminds me of my Grand Father. The imagery she paints just invokes so much nostalgia and emotion

[@jeffpawlinski3210]

30 years ago tonight, November 5th, 1992 I saw Tori Amos perform for the first time at Marquette University's Weasler Auditorium in Milwaukee on her debut tour in front of only 200 people. I graduated in 1988 but snagged an alumni ticket and was absolutely blown away by her talent and passion. I'm convinced, to this day, that she wore a hole in the hardwood stage floor with the pounding of her heel to keep time as she played her piano. I've seen her 11 more times in Milwaukee since that first epic experience. She played this song that night. I cried. Tori is one of a kind!

[@tedcole9936]

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.

[@richsmith6422]

Awesome anecdote. Tori is a goddess

[@erikugland579]

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.

[@dianebrown8046]

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aryansigrid]

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!

[@jofoster1596]

Her songwriting talent, piano playing and that voice and delivery. Add in all the chances she took with her material. True talent

[@peal1179]

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 😂.

[@aryansigrid]

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

[@dianebrown8046]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ Tori Amos was friend & saved my Life...in the 90's I met her through RAINN Charity...saw 9 times..backstage 7 & on her tour bus twice....last time on bus we talked for 20? mins...she held me in her arms while I Cried &&&& Convinced me to leave my Abusive Husband......I CAN'T Tell You How WONDERFUL She Is !!!

[@eew12]

I lost my father 10 years ago. This song brings me to tears every time I hear it. Music has a unique ability to make you feel deep deep emotions that you didn't know needed to come out.

[@aprilezarobinski5656]

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!

[@bigjoe330]

Tori is such an underrated and unique force of nature. A musical genius. But those who know.......know❤❤❤

[@kyrareneeLOA]

Tori is a gift to this world, a true rare treasure. 💖💎Thank you for reacting to her. And I love your pure reaction. 💖

[@sharkdog111]

Makes me cry every time. It's ok to express your feelings while listening, that's what we want.

[@reverentcavaliers7579]

Thank you for the reactions! I bought this CD when my wife was pregnant with our 1st girl. I wept uncontrollably every time this song came on. Very unusual for me. Deep down I longed to be a father my child could always count on, and who loved his daughter more than she loved herself. Like the father Tori is singing about. I still get pretty misty when I hear it. Thanks again for your reactions.

[@jlstohr7784]

I love this live version of Tori's song. Music is emotional-sometimes sad but beautiful. Thank you for your honest reaction. I cried again watching this!

[@karengratton7208]

I have heard this 100 or more times and your response is exactly how I feel. It’s overwhelming. 😢

[@TeraLee..]

So glad that you experienced something in this song. It is soo heartfelt and raw.

[@azureskies9377]

I have heard this song a million times. Watching your reaction has reminded me how deep it cuts and how beautiful it is.

[@danalynch8889]

I was crying right along with you. It made me think of my dad who this past Oct 31st passed away 26 years ago. When I hear a song about fathers I cry like a little child for my dad.

[@professorplums722]

The most generous and genuine reaction, two beautiful women. This song hits me the same way. Best wishes.

[@mattbrothers2197]

Best reaction I ever saw. Much love. Respect.

[@Strangeway74]

That initial reaction is what is so beautiful about music..

[@BrendanAshton]

Tori really knows how to reach into your soul and touch your heart make those connection and trigger those emotions and talented.

[@SilverBoxStudios]

Tori, much like life itself, once experienced leaves you forever changed.

[@CrucibleBlack13]

Love Tori and this is one of my favorites. Couldn’t click fast enough when I saw one of my favorite reactors was going to discover her music. Your response was beautiful.

[@openyourchakras918]

Tori puts so much energy & emotion into the way she performs that you can’t help but feel the power 💗 💫

[@mawrthvallis2788]

Only "hearing" Tori is only half of the performance. You have to see her live sets. Most of the emotions she evokes are in her facial expressions and body movements as she weaves her stories. One of her earliest shows after the release of her debut album, Little Earthquakes, at this same venue on July 7th, 1992 is considered by many as one of greatest solo performances by any artist. It's a must watch.

[@TroyGrey]

I have heard this song tons of times and I was experiencing it with you as if it was the first time ever, I cried too. Have seen Tori live a couple of times and there are always moments like these during her concerts where I just break down and tear up. She’s phenomenal.

[@tonyttt31]

Thank you for your bravery in publishing this emotional reaction.

[@ThomasKnip]

Over the years there have been several songs from Tori Amos that brought tears to my eyes, always hitting right at my memories.

[@mikecaetano]

"Winter" was the fourth single from her debut album, Little Earthquakes, released in 1992. Back then it was the song that changed my mind about her music. I remember listening to that album at a girlfriends house along with her next album, Under the Pink, the summer after that. If this is your first time listening to her, perhaps check out "Cornflake Girl" or "God" or "Taxi Ride" next.

[@r.j4449]

More Tori Amos reactions please. She´s so good and has so many amazing songs.

[@willfromyadkinville]

one of my best music purchases ever! the whole album is just incredible! my home state girl! North Carolina loves you Tori!

[@jrobertlysaght]

I really respect your emotional courage to react to the variety and depth of music you do, and to share the connections you get from them with the world like this. Tori Amos's songs are always so moving, and as a jumping off point with Tori.... Winter is a powerful song. As for getting emotional, I'd worry about you if you didn't get effected by her. Do yourself a favor if you have a good half hour, and listen to the album this song comes from, Little Earthquakes front to back, as you say 'When you want to feel a certain way'.

[@openyourchakras918]

Tori can heal me no matter what mood I am in, she is a brilliant composer, artist, singer & soul. I hope to see more of her on your channel.

[@johnthegreek5836]

It felt like she ripped out my heart, beautiful song and voice

[@racerx6563]

I have used this song for strength @ least 30 years. ❤🙏♥️☘️✌️

[@marythompson4826]

I've cried every time I've heard this song since it came out. I hope you went back and listened again when you could let yourself cry. ❤

[@racinnut77]

Not to be left out she also wrote a song for her mom called, appropriately enough, "Mother". I got to see her in concert around the same as this performance. She had the audience captivated.

[@sidhedanu]

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

[@DavidMichaelCommer]

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.

[@jonlate4581]

A true prodigy in every sense of the word. She was the youngest peson to ever recieve a full scholarship to The Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins, at the age of five! She left at eleven because she didn't like the fact that they told her what she could and couldn't play. From a ridiculously young age she could hear a piece of music and be able to play it back note for note, and that was all without any formal training.

[@kylekerwin4993]

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.

[@sirex02]

Amazing reaction. I felt your pain. More Tori Amos please. She's gonna become your favorite artist.

[@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.

[@dddube12]

Its okay, many of us feel this way!!!! Beautiful song!!! 😢

[@3YearsApart1613]

Very sweet reaction. Thanks for sharing.

[@SeanPFarley]

Same. Just....same. A part of myself dies every time I hear this. Thank you for being emotional and open with your experience.

[@chemistrynerd]

one of the all time great songwriters and performers, Tori Amos was my first big crush when I was growing up in the 90s....there is something so special about her

[@peartist2]

Tori Amos. Oh God I love her. She did a duet with Maynard James Keenan I adore

[@douglasennis7291]

An amazing song and talent ❤️❤️❤️

[@DavidMichaelCommer]

Her music has a similar effect on many people. You don't need to apologize for being moved by her lyrics. While "I put my hand in my father's glove" resonates with you because of a specific personal experience, rest assured that the same applies to many of us. Tori is an extraordinary songwriter and empath in one way because she is able to intuitively identify very specific events and images that may not be consciously available to most of us, but which when heard strike a deep emotional chord and take us to meaningful times and places from our lives. Just for the sake of comparison, Taylor Swift, for example, tends to repeat motifs such as a scarf or a glove that she left behind and which carries her scent-which are fine literary devices, but they are more expected, more artificial, more conventional means of relating emotionally evocative ideas to listeners than the real-life, ultra-specific images Tori presents, which sometimes even sound like they could be gibberish (they *never* are in her music, no matter how abstract and inaccessible they are) and yet they still tend to be emotionally resonant to those of us who 'get her.' Tori's musical catalog is incredibly varied-more than you probably could imagine-and few of her other songs have the same feeling as 'Winter.' I hope you'll listen to more. You're likely to continue to be moved and provoked to think, but in different ways than the way this song hit you.

[@dipsydoodle7988]

If this was your first experience with Tori, it will always be a ride, it just might not always tear you apart. Sometimes yes, she’s got happier tunes too tho. Try out Cornflake Girl next. She is an immense talent.

[@jalvo2004]

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.

[@dipsydoodle7988]

@@jalvo2004 oh wow! 😟

[@yrankin1]

Love, love, love Tori. Beautiful reaction to a beautiful artist.

[@chrissi3193]

Extraordinary song from an unbelievably gifted artist..so blessed to have her , Kate and the likes of Cave. Up there with Prince isn't she?

[@DavidB-2268]

Part of Tori's magic is that she has synethesia, where she experiences sounds as lights/images. So with every song, every performance, she's painting a literal picture.

[@DavidMichaelCommer]

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.

[@longfootbuddy]

i always thought i would grow up to have a kind of tori amos like wife gardening, bathing, and playing piano around the house

[@damiencale]

This people, this is how you react to this song 👏🏻

[@jennyjonesthug]

Subbed. Thanks for sharing this with us.

[@magnus3369]

Huge Tori Amos, so much so we named our daughter after her. Other greats, In My Head, Happy Phantom, Me And A Gun…

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

The songs on this album (Crucify) cut so deep. They make me cry, too.

[@matthewd6306]

This song hits me right in the feels as a new father to a baby girl and toddler son.

[@davidwells8977]

Your reaction brought me here to tears. I wrote this for you- (Tears) Shadows glove-like long On low piano light Bracelets loosely hanging Snaking voice to bellow Makeup blindly changing tears

[@toriboy25]

This is beautiful song and a beautiful performance

[@davids5336]

Music can be so powerful and make you feel so many things and take you to so many places! I really don't have anymore words!

[@johnboydTx]

The power and greatness of music 🎶?? It touches the spirit in every way possible 🤔 around the world!!!!!! Unknown Magic 😍❣️❣️ Enjoy your adventures in Music 🎶 every direction possible 😋✌️♥️👋👋

[@arthurzeigar2092]

1000 oceans by her is another emotional song.

[@jimcole9751]

I have many songs that touch my heart and soul....it shows your a good person ❤️

[@pspence9569]

Loved it, I feel it too.

[@tetsuoishiki4677]

And she's a personal friend of the wrestling legend Mick Foley. Her debut Little Earthquakes is simply one of the best!

[@alienlifeform7490]

When it needs to come out, it does. Thank you. 💙💙

[@Fenyxfire]

Tori will kick your emotions in the teeth. Content warning for Me and a Gun if you give that one a listen. It's about sexual assault. Something she's super open about. She also talks about struggling with religion and other hot topics. She's spectacular live too

[@mistralwinds4715]

This is the exact perfect reaction to this performance.

[@pamagnolia]

What a beautiful, touching song. It really got to you sweetheart. 😢

[@garyarnett1220]

Need to listen to this again to totally grab it, so emotional. LU Angela that was wonderful

[@willsofer3679]

I know, right? This is objectively beautiful.

[@williamking1554]

astounding

[@_Rustodian]

Her Mum & Dad were watching. She turns to look at them at the end, over her right shoulder.

[@tracystuart4266]

This is definitely one of those songs I basically can't listen to after dark or I know I'm going to sleep crying.

[@jamiefonte7238]

Bless your heart sweet girl.

[@davidkoblentz]

Tori is amazing, the fact that she got you to have the emotions you did is both a testament to her and you - this song is beautiful - and her performance? who delivers it live like this??? If you want a really obscure suggestion that no one is doing (although they do seem to react to the "main" band), check out Anna Murphy (her voice is as good as Tori's - maybe not as expressive but that is almost not a fair comparison)... Anna Murphy "twin flames" "sick" or "woebegone". She is the lead singer of the metal/folk rock band "Cellar Darling" and he formerly sang for "Eluviete" (they have millions of hits on their vids). I might also suggest "King's X" and over looked american rock band that does three part harmonies like the Beatles... dUg, the lead singer is still belting it out all these years, for them check out a live version of "Over My Head" or "A Box"...

[@jamienerdahl9209]

She was a 5 yr old piano prodigy❤ it s quite evident hey? A musical genius probaby the modern equivalent of mozart. Listen to the whole album.

[@RedbarParadise-ni4cq]

this song is an emotional nuclear missile. bad dad or good dad we all have very strong feelings about it.

[@Malfie657]

Great song by a great artist, but a hard watch for you Angela - much credit for getting through it.

[@johnparke659]

As soon as she mentions her dad I fall apart 😢

[@rowdy1955]

best enjoyed with glass of wine on rainy day . . .

[@billhicks808]

It's OK hun. The whole thing is about a complex but very loving relationship between a daughter and her father. It's supposed to remind you of being 8 years old and knowing, for a fact. that Dad was the final word on all things good and bad in the world.

[@Tonya-fz4er]

I know. It’s okay to cry.

[@JonasBelgi]

It has that effect on me too :)

[@hughphillips1427]

Angela for Miss World, what a beautiful lady both inside and out.

[@jollyj3285]

Love Tori .....my faves are God, The Waitress, Icicle,, and Professional Widow

[@danielmesery2904]

New music + live show🔊☮️🌷😁

[@gabrielmcdonnell8699]

Kate Bush. 🙌🏽

[@usagi2988]

Ayo, every now & then, I need to have a "wine & whine" night... guess which artist gets queued up for those nights. Ain't nothin' wrong with any of that IMO.

[@sidhedanu]

I love Tori because she makes me feel things. This is not one of my favorites of hers, despite how good it is. It's just that she gets even better. Check out Cooling, one of her songs about mourning a miscarriage. It's incredibly beautiful. Her other songs about miscarriages are Spark & Playboy Mommy. She did eventually have a beautiful baby girl, who is now all grown up and recently married. My point is really that Tori sings about all manner of subjects, and they're often about issues that women face and need to heal from. Rape (Me & a Gun, Silent All These Years), the shame surrounding just being a sexually aware female in religious culture (Icicle, Precious Things, Climb), women betraying women (The Waitress, Cornflake Girl), and the psychological process of exploring one's shadow self (Father Lucifer, Professional Widow - not for the faint of heart, it's chaotic harpischord punk). Hundreds of songs, a lifetime of therapy in a playlist.

[@kylemoran7852]

This song is supposed to make you feel. It’s a go to crier for me. Try out Tear in your hand or China from the same album.

[@MM-eb6ef]

Hugs x

[@84ames]

If any daughter doesn't cry then she didn't know her dad

[@cgirl111]

It brings up a memory for everyone. Blade Runner could have just used this to determine who is and is not a replicant. No need for all the upside down turtles.

[@meatzmcgee]

Jvke-Golden Hour

[@kevenpeoples]

‘Kandy’ by Fever Ray please 🙏

[@ThistleAndSea]

(((HUG))) ❤

[@steveduncan9256]

Fuckn hell this is simply devine,😢