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[[Image:Toriamos.jpg|thumb|Tori Amos]]
'''Tori Amos''' (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American singer/songwriter and vocalist known for her unique and proficient style of piano playing, as well as for her intimate brand of songwriting. Amos has released 9 solo many studio albums and numerous B-sides to date, and has gathered a notoriously devoted following due to her eccentric personality and intense live shows.
==Career==
For many though, much was riding on Amos' ninth album ''American Doll Posse'', released on May 1, 2007. This album was also based around a concept—Amos believed that too many American woman were pushed into boring or simple stereotypes (such as the "knickerless flirt" or the "career bitch"), and so wanted to create "new ones" where the women were much more interesting or empowered and so forth. Thus five women sing the 23 tracks on the album, based on the Greek pantheon: Santa/Aphrodite who is very sensual, Pip/Athena who is brutally confrontational, Isabel/Artemis who is an unbiased chronicler, Clyde/Persephone who is introspectively compassionate, and Tori/Demeter/Dionysus who was viewed as a stylized version of the artist herself. The record was greatly influenced lyrically and musically by the rock gods of the seventies, and many fans thought it was a return to edge for Amos, as did critics, praising it as one of her most accessible and fun LP's. This was her last record for Epic.
On May 30, 2008, the online Amos community discovered that the singer was no longer listed on Epic's official site. A user's question regarding this was officially addressed on Billboard's website, stating that Amos was now independent and planning on remaining soexploring the subsequent opportunities. A message from Amos regarding this was later posted on her official site, with hints at coming news in the future. ''Comic Book Tattoo,'' a nearly 500 page book containing over 50 comics by over 80 artists, each based on one of her songs, was released later in 2008. A DVD for the ''American Doll Posse'' tour, entitled ''The Road Chronicles'', is slated for a late 2009 release. Amos's tenth studio album, ''Abnormally Attracted To Sin,'' will be released May 19, 2009.
===Other work/miscellaneous===
[[Trent Reznor]] and Amos originally met in mutual admiration for each other's respective debut albums, sometime in the early nineties. They recognized similar approaches in emotional expression, despite vastly different musical styles. Both artists influenced the other's work in some way; Reznor even admitted that he would listen to ''Little Earthquakes'' every day while recording ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' [http://www.thanatopsic.org/music/trivial/tori-trent-rmta.html] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMEKppnpV8] From there a collaboration formed: Reznor contributed vocals to Amos's single "Past The Mission" for her 1994 album ''Under The Pink.'' His vocals on the track were uncharacteristically, and somewhat unrecognizably, soft and pleasant, low in the mix of the song's choruses. The song was about finding hope in a relationship after trauma, as well as the supposed relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus.
Amos has also performed the first two lines of "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" in concert—mainly between 1994 and 1999—and has made allusions to Nine Inch Nails in her solo work, most notably in "Precious Things" from ''Little Earthquakes'' and "Caught a Lite Sneeze" from ''Boys for Pele.''In a 1994 issue of ''Vox'' Magazine, she listed ''The Downward Spiral'' as one of her top 10 favorite albums.[https://www.yessaid.com/timeline8.html] She also did a live [[Covers Of NIN|cover]] of "[[Something I Can Never Have]]" in 2014.
The two were obviously once close friends, and several interviews from the mid nineties detail random encounters between the two, such as the "cursed chicken" story. [http://www.thanatopsic.org/music/trivial/tori-trent-rmta.html] Some mutual fans of the artists speculate their friendship once reached beyond that into romantic territory, based on these and other interviews, various NIN and Amos lyrics, and other similarities in work. Their relationship is currently undetermined, though it is viewed as broken, based on the same aforementioned things.
*''The Beekeeper'' (2005)
*''American Doll Posse'' (2007)
*''Abnormally Attracted To Sin'' (2009)
*''Midwinter Graces'' (2009)
*''Night of Hunters'' (2011)
*''Gold Dust'' (2012)
*''Unrepentant Geraldines'' (2014)
*''Native Invader'' (2017)
*''Ocean to Ocean'' (2021)
===EPs/Singles===
*''Welcome to Sunny Florida/Scarlet's Hidden Treasures'' DVD/CD (2004)
*''Piece by Piece'' Autobiography (2005)
*''Official Bootlegs'' MP3s (2005)
*''Fade to Red'' DVD (2005)
*''A Piano: The Collection'' (2006)
*''Legs & Boots'' MP3s (2007)
*''Comic Book Tattoo'' Anthology (2008)
==Lyrics to "Past the Mission"==
She said she knew what my books did not
I thought she knew what's up
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl
Past the mission, they're closing every hour
Past the mission and I smell the roses
She said they all think they know him well
She knew him better, better, better
Well I did too, but I shut my mouth
And he just gave me a smile
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl
Past the mission and I smell the roses
Past the mission and I smell the roses
Hey, they found a body
Not sure it was his, still they're using his name
Somewhere I know she knows
Somethings only she knows
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl
Past the mission, they're closing every hour
Past the mission and I smell the roses
Past the mission, behind the prison tower
Past the mission, I once knew a hot girl