Singer songwriter says she’ll take on “hardest band on any stage” because she’s better with emotion than heavy music acts
Throwdown: Tori Amos
Singer songwriter Tori Amos has issued a challenge to the metal world, calling on the “hardest band on any stage” to attempt to take her down.
She believes her music is more powerful than anything heavy artists bring to the table because of the emotion she puts into her work.
Amos has issued the challenge after reflecting on the fact that former pro wrestler Mick Foley is a fan of her work, and that might surprise people.
She tells Spinner: “Sometimes you don’t know how music affects people. I embrace that because I don’t think that just because I talk about emotional stuff, it’s not motherfucker stuff.
“I’ll stand next to the hardest fucking heavy metal band on any stage in the world and take them down – alone, by myself.
“Gauntlet laid down. See who steps up. I’ll take them down at 48, and they know I will.
“Because emotion has power that the metal guys know is… you just can’t touch it. Insanity can’t touch the should. It’s going to win every fucking time.”
Amos has just completed work on a complete song-cycle which tells the story of an Irish woman whose life comes crashing down in one day, although the narrative spans 3000 years.
She seems to be assuming that the hardest fucking heavy metal bands in the world can’t make emotional music. This is patently complete nonsense.
Sounds a bit to me as if she’s put on a character in reply to the question she was asked…
Silly old lady, she thinks people still like her music.
What’s great is that she makes the rash assumption that any human art could be devested of emotion. Do tell, scholar, what is “emotional stuff?” What a worthless thing she has done here.
Wow – so Tori’s finally realized that nobody cares about her anymore eh? It must be depressing to discover that you’re now irrelevant to a fan-base that you’d once been so dear to, but it seems counter-productive to alienate so much of that fan-base with ignorant, arrogant comments like this. Metal is one of the few musical forms that is still ALL ABOUT emotion; just because she can’t understand really emotional music doesn’t mean she’s any better. Never thought I’d be Done With Tori, but here we are.
I think she should take on Devil Driver at download festival… a football field mosh pit vs this women… i know what i’m doing…
Go back to playing with rats Tori.