They’ve taken it as far as they can but sometimes you take a step back and you realize that you don’t want to walk away. I understand that not everybody does work through situations they feel that they need to have different experience with other people, possibly. But when you’re going through it, when life is maybe dragging you both by your knees, sometimes you have to work a bit harder to see your own good qualities as well as theirs. How you work through those times when you first start dating … as we all know it’s difficult to see anything else but someone’s amazing qualities. How do you experience love now in your life and write about it versus when you were younger? Different moments challenge all relationships, whether it’s a friend or family or a lover. On “Wild Way” you sing about the power a partner has over you, loving so much it turns to hate. I know the situations and sometimes I don’t go into detail about them because in some ways, it’s exposing enough that the songs are out there. It’s been five years since Abnormally Attracted to Sin, and there’ve been a lot of experiences, and relationships have changed. Are all of these women you? I’d say for most of it, I know those women very well. On this album, you write from several different female perspectives, particularly about relationships. It’s hard to describe to people who haven’t been, because there is nowhere like it in the world. It’s just something that takes over sometimes. gets in people’s DNA when you spend time there. How much of the South stays with you, despite now living in England? The South has its own perfume, doesn’t it? And memories and tastes and sounds and ways of telling stories. The first track released from the album, “Trouble’s Lament,” has a rich southern tinge. I was really writing songs just to live, to express. There would be something that was happening in my life and I would just write. I wasn’t contemplating writing a pop album songs were just being expressed. But there were just times when a song would visit, in a moment by myself and I would really just keep it to myself. It’s really busy … there were armies of people involved at the musical. How did you draw upon your creative energy from those efforts into Unrepentant Geraldines? There were times when I would just have a moment where a song would escape I’ve kind of called it a secret moment, a private moment, because all these other projects are very collaborative and happening simultaneously. You've made what is a very contemporary pop album after four vastly different previous projects: a season album ( Midwinter Graces), a classical album ( Night of Hunters), a re-imagining of your catalog ( Gold Dust) and a musical in London ( The Light Princess). Amos spoke to The FADER about the album, turning 50 and why she won’t be sliding down any tongues onstage on her current 80-date tour. Like all of her work, she’s unrelenting in the narratives, mapping stories across topics of age, marriage and even the NSA. It’s an evincive chamber pop album largely inspired by many visual artists, including 19th century French painter Paul Cézanne and his many shades of blue, and Irish artist Daniel Maclise, whose drawing of a woman named Geraldine inspired the album’s title. (Watch Lady Gaga straddle a piano bench and there you’ll also find Amos.) She’s since gone on to sell more than 12 million albums.Īmos, who lives in Cornwall, England with her sound engineer and husband of 16 years, Mark Hawley, and their 13-year-old daughter, Natashya, releases her 14th album, Unrepentant Geraldines, on May 13 ( now streaming in full on Amazon). While her own influences-from Bach to Kate Bush-have always been clear, today her influence on others can be heard in the veracity of songwriters like Fiona Apple or in the guttural vocals of Florence Welch. Her fiercely personal lyrical candor earned her a face among influential '90s singer-songwriters (many of them women), but it's her appreciable mysticism and prodigal chops that carried Amos into something like otherworldliness, and, well, the new millennium. That effort, Little Earthquakes-a confessional collection of songs that explore everything from religion to relationships to rape-introduced Amos, a North Carolina-born minister’s daughter, as a crimson-haired prodigal musician with a knack for metaphor and melody. It’s been nearly 25 years since Tori Amos made her solo major record label debut.
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