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November 28, 2003
BECK/SMITH HOLLYWOOD EXCLUSIVE
Tori Amos Looking Forward to Breather
Tori Amos is looking forward to a spell of down time, with 2003 having
been jammed with touring and with work on her newly-released "Tales of
a Librarian: A Tori Amos Collection" compilation CD and bonus DVD. She
notes that she and her band "thought we would have a little bit of a
break" last summer, but wound up working intensely on the new disc
instead.
She's candid about her reason. "Originally, it was contractual."
Atlantic Records, she informs, decided to exercise its option for a
greatest hits album, and she was left with the choice of being involved
-- or not.
"Once I knew they were going to do some kind of 'best-of' album, I said,
'Let's do something that's intriguing.' I explained to Atlantic that
every night the kids come back with their own version of the
'best-of,'" she says, speaking of fans' proclivity for amassing their
own collections thanks to the wonders of modern technology.
Thus, the iconoclastic and introspective songstress conceived the idea
of a "sonic biography" of material in the custodianship of a librarian
(complete with Dewey Decimal System packaging). She reworked some of
her classic material, added two new songs, and brought back two
little-known songs that, she says, "were cited as being too political
at the time." And political they are. One, "Sweet Dreams," includes the
line "land of liberty, we're run by a constipated man." She says it was
"originally written about George Bush and a war in Iraq -- about the
father in that war."
Anyway, Amos says her next step is "to take some time to write. I find
I get the best results when I have a little bit of time to not have to
deliver. I don't have to deliver again until 2005 -- and that gives me
the opportunity to know that in 2004 I'll be planting a vast garden."
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