Tori Amos- Mother REACTION & REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- Song Link: • Mother (2015 Remaster)
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I forgot how beautiful this song was. Her piano playing is gorgeous on this. So glad you came back to Tori. You did a great job with the analysis, and think you got the gist of it. I'm excited... the next song on the album is one of my favorites!
Another beautiful track from an astonishing artist. The whole album is simply amazing. Love it. 😍😎
I have my own take on this song, I think you need to know more about Tori's background to get it. Tori was a child prodigy, legend has it she crawled up to the piano at age 2 and a half and just started playing. By age 4, she could could duplicate music on the piano after hearing only once, and she was composing her own music. At the age of 5, she was admitted into the Peabody Musical Conservatory in Baltimore, the youngest ever, to this day. Tori was also kicked out of that school at age 11 for what she called "musical insubordination", she refused to learn to read sheet music, and she was more drawn to contemporary music than classical. I think Tori's natural talent worked against the school's attempts at classically training her. One more point of interest, Tori Amos' birthname was Myra Ellen Amos, and she always loathed Myra with a passion. In her late teens she started performing under the name Ellen Amos, but was still unsatisfied with it. It's a bit murky, but a person who Tori had just met and overheard her talking about the subject suggested he thought she looked like a Tori, it was that simple.
As all this relates to the song, I believe Tori's mother Mary took on the role of disciplinarian for her education, and specifically made sure she lived up to the responsibility of the gifts she received, and that's a lot of pressure for a child. To all accounts, Mary was a lovely woman that Tori loved dearly, but I think during this time of their lives, this issue was difficult between them. I think that the name change was a sore point as well, and Tori voices a little nagging regret about it here, Myra is, at least, an anagram for Mary.
With all this information, you might want to give the song another listen, but realize Tori never really went into a lot of detail about this song, but this is just information you gleen over time of being a fan.
Tori it is one of the most prolific and stunning artists of our time! This album became a story of my life began at the age of 15. Lyrically I felt understood in her imagery was so vivid it caught me in such a deep place. Then to listen to her vocals, not just their beauty but the intricacy in which she sings and emotes the lyrics mostly accompanied with her piano compositions. I have heard it said that Tori Amos has the most incredible breath control of almost any artists ever. She is able to sing for long periods of time without taking a breath and letting it out so slowly with incredible control. In every song she uses that breath to enhance the emotion she channels whether in a whisper or in a gasp, Or a sob. I can’t understand the criticism I’ve seen here. I wish there was a time where you could watch her live videos while singing and playing. Especially the song winter and possibly me and a gun. Everything She does seems intentional. Love her or hate her, there’s no denying this amazing lifelong talent and ability to affect the listener. Thanks again for listening to her.💕❤️✌️☀️🔥
I watched many reactions, read Tori's past and different theories, I believe your interpretetion to be the most clear and direct and so on point it's unbelievable you got all that on the first listen! Really Amazing!
Appreciate that a lot Raws! I love her writing
Tori is always approaching things on a metaphorical level, so there is never any need to try to translate her lyrics literally. She welcomes all interpretations as she feels she is taking an existing song entity and it just goes through her personal filter.
She has said this of the song:
I knew that "Winter" needed to be written, which represented not just the father, but the grandfather -- Poppa, my mother's father. So the positive male energies in my life, and also moments with men, with their disappointment in themselves and how that plays out. I wanted -- I needed -- the polar opposite, so I felt like this needed to go beyond the human mother. This needed to go back to ideas of Creatrix and that God is not just male, but of the Creator being female and male. So this is the feminine story coming down to earth, leaving this soul space and saying goodbye to Mother Creator as I go to Mother Earth. And the last thing is somebody leaves the light on. [Rolling Stone - December 18, 2009]
I'm happy you've gone back to this album, I still like it best out of her catalog. Her songs have an intensity to them, songs that HAD to get out of her. Those staccato piano chords make me think of the passing moments, beads rolling over the edge of a cliff. Time marches forward but even with the light left on you may not be able to return home.
Another good one. You're on a roll, here. As always, thanks for the detective work on the mystery of the words. It's nice to have some ideas about what the lyrics might mean, sometimes, but I need quite a lot of help with that. And I get it pretty reliably here.
The contention with her mother will always be there. Regardless of where she goes, what her name is how much time passes. 😮
Voice and piano. Stunning.
I've always considered this song archetypal or allegorical, rather than literal: the mother who forces you out into the world, who shapes you in her own image (for good and ill), who watches you take the same steps she did (cars, boys, dancing, brides). Pantyhose running because the legs are running, but also getting runs because teen girls take their shoes off to dance or ride a motorcycle.
The mother warns against danger and is herself a danger (dripping with time/blood/your advice), teaching her daughter about menses, about crossing your legs, about the right and wrong ways to be a girl, maybe sexist or stereotypical ideas that alienate the girl from her gender (poisoning me against the moon). Resisting her as the center of your world (we told you all of our secrets), detaching to become your own version of a woman/mother (the phone has been disconnected), the struggle between childhood and adulthood, yearning and running away at the same time.
'Leave the light on' has always felt ambiguous to me, like it's hope and welcome, but it's also the pressure to come home, to 'see the light,' to fit into the role given upon your birth. It's an escape if needed, but anyone who's gone home for a holiday knows the resentments, the anger at being treated like a child again, the family dynamics that can be stifling or even harmful. A longing for simplicity, for safety and easy solutions in a messy adult world.
Thats a really great interpretation! I like that a lot, ty for sharing
Magnificent voice, nice piano, superior lyrics but this isn't one of her best songs, imo. Not sure that I can recall any of the melody 3 minutes after it has finished.
Love this album, but this track doesn't connect with me. At all.
If Kate Bush is a luxurious laser printer, Tori Amos is a garage sale fax machine.
And your misogyny is tired as a dot matrix commodore printer. Both are amazing artists in their own right and comparing them is just tired and cringy.
@@TheEmpressIsIn Selective misogyny. Not that I'd call Tori Amos a woman...
@@SpaceCattttt Wow reporting your misogynist hate speech. Please reconsider your hatred.
@@TheEmpressIsIn Make up whatever lies suit you. I'm just glad very few people are like you. It would make this world a living hell.
Tori Amos is a reminder to me why no one I know can stomach Kate Bush.
I can most certainly "stomach" Kate Bush!! What are you trying to say? I mean seriously how insulting. I love Kate Bush, remember she came before Tori did. I love Tori also, so I have no clue what you are trying to insinuate..
Kate and Tori may have some similarities but are completely different to one another. Comments like this are a reminder for me that there are still people outside who are just trying to put others down to feel better themselves with their poor life they must lead.
That's just rude, dude.
Misogynists like you remind me of whiny babies in shitty diapers.
Kate bush does it better.
Kate and Tori are both musical genius's, their voices, their piano playing, composers, producers. I would say Laura Nyro was a musical genius also and came before both Kate and Tori, but they both have mentioned Laura being influential to them.
Yay another misogynist who can't help but pit women against each other! Go eat a moog.
@@Rhiannon011 Kate Bush never have. Some reviewers, when "The Kick Inside" was released, compared KB to Laura Nyro and Joni Mitchell. I can hear why on a superficial level (piano players, high pitched voices and that's about it) but they really have nothing in common in termes of songwriting and performance. KB is really "english" and unique. A comparison between Joni and Tori makes more sense, and Kate Bush too in some ways, but those 4 artists definitely create(d) their own stuff.
@@cuckoofan I LOVED Kate Bush's work "after her high pitched younger years", I never connected with those early albums. But when she "matured" and her. Kate's "Hounds of love" album (the ninth wave b side was incredible!!) and her Red Shoes album and all albums after those I cherish and love. I have all of Laura's albums and have loved her from the very beginning. They only played her albums on "FM underground" in Los Angeles way back "then". That is how I discovered her first 3 albums and went out and bought each one as they came out. I still listen to her albums to this day, and never tire of listening to them. I did not like any of the other artist versions of Laura's songs, they were lacking in "passion and soul". I suppose I'm just prejudice hearing her originals. Her body of work and songs are like plays where she weaves stories you can imagine as you listen, her soft soft voice often a whisper then building up to to her wails of passion, incredible!! To me Laura was a musical genius and I think Tori and Kate are also. They all 3 composed, play piano, sing and produce most of their work, that is true talent to me.
@@Rhiannon011 I agree about Laura Nyro. I don't have, like you, all her albums (but most of them) but I always felt as really unfair the fact she was not recognized as a major artist. Here, in Europe, she's rather unknown anyway.
For Kate Bush, like many europeans (compared to americans), I connected with her work right from the start ("Wuthering Heights") and I was lucky enough to see her live in 1979 in Paris. It seems people from Europe and the US have a totally different experience and viewpoint on Kate Bush just on this basis. For example, in Europe, "The Red Shoes" and "The Sensual World" are considered by the public and the critics as very minor albums compared to "The Kick Inside" (which is one of the most exceptional debut-albums of all times for such a young singer-songwriter), "Never for Ever" or "The Dreaming" (and, of course, "Hounds of Love"). For me, american people "missed the boat" with Kate Bush and I sometimes feel we don't speak about the same person or artist. The early years are, for me, essential to really "get" what Kate Bush represents as an artist. But I'm glad american people eventually had the chance to know her work.
I'll pass.
North Cornwall