So...2 new Tori songs appeared yesterday. They disappeared again today, but they stayed up long enough for me to listen to them. Online most people were excited. "The new UTP" "Her best since Pele" "This is why I fell in love with Tori Amos so many years ago".
All in all things to get excited about, right?
I listened. I loved the intro to NT. But then Tori started to sing and I just don't care. I honestly don't feel the songs. They have no passion whatsoever, really, they don't. And I probably the only person feeling this way. It just makes me realize that it is really time for me to move on from Tori's music. Treasure the old stuff that I still dearly love, but give up on her newer stuff.
Example of why I feel the way I feel: Carry is a slow song. I think emotional as well and I heard some people refer it to Toast a bit. While bits and pieces of NT I loved, for example the flute, I can't love anything about Carry. And I thought it might be because it is a slow song.
But today I happened to listen to SLG. Time, Real Men and After All were the first 3 songs to play. Three songs with basically only Tori and her piano. The things she does with her voice there though...THAT'S the Tori I love and also fell in love with in 1996. Her recent voice is so extremely dull and annoying. No real emotion, she tries by stretching words and sing them in different layers. But that only annoys me a lot more.
So...I even sold my tickets for the first Amsterdam show and also the Antwerp one. Will still see her, but this might be my last tour as well. Because even though she might play older stuff as well, truth is TBK/ADP/AATS/MWG/NOH are a lot of albums with a lot of songs on them I don't even remotely care for. I remember her Orchestra concert all too well, where she played just too many songs from her more recent albums.
Anyway...it's hard though...because so many people are so excited and it makes you feel the odd one out. Plus: for a long time I felt like I belonged with a group, and now that's all pretty much gone as well. Because I don't share the excitement, I often feel like a debbie downer.
I just don't think Tori will ever find her voice back and that means I will no longer travel along with her. Fucking sucks though. Because this woman meant the world to me (and it also feels like yet another thing I love is ripped out of my life)
All in all things to get excited about, right?
I listened. I loved the intro to NT. But then Tori started to sing and I just don't care. I honestly don't feel the songs. They have no passion whatsoever, really, they don't. And I probably the only person feeling this way. It just makes me realize that it is really time for me to move on from Tori's music. Treasure the old stuff that I still dearly love, but give up on her newer stuff.
Example of why I feel the way I feel: Carry is a slow song. I think emotional as well and I heard some people refer it to Toast a bit. While bits and pieces of NT I loved, for example the flute, I can't love anything about Carry. And I thought it might be because it is a slow song.
But today I happened to listen to SLG. Time, Real Men and After All were the first 3 songs to play. Three songs with basically only Tori and her piano. The things she does with her voice there though...THAT'S the Tori I love and also fell in love with in 1996. Her recent voice is so extremely dull and annoying. No real emotion, she tries by stretching words and sing them in different layers. But that only annoys me a lot more.
So...I even sold my tickets for the first Amsterdam show and also the Antwerp one. Will still see her, but this might be my last tour as well. Because even though she might play older stuff as well, truth is TBK/ADP/AATS/MWG/NOH are a lot of albums with a lot of songs on them I don't even remotely care for. I remember her Orchestra concert all too well, where she played just too many songs from her more recent albums.
Anyway...it's hard though...because so many people are so excited and it makes you feel the odd one out. Plus: for a long time I felt like I belonged with a group, and now that's all pretty much gone as well. Because I don't share the excitement, I often feel like a debbie downer.
I just don't think Tori will ever find her voice back and that means I will no longer travel along with her. Fucking sucks though. Because this woman meant the world to me (
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