Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos) was one of several female singer/songwriters who combined the stark lyrical attack of alternative rock with a distinctly ’70s musical approach, creating music that fell between the orchestrated meditations of Kate Bush and the stripped-down poetics of Joni Mitchell.
What is the meaning of the song Crucify by Amos?
In ’92 Crucify was released. In this song Amos is freed from the religious conformism imposed by the family environment and in general by American society. Tori is looking for a savior and she finds it in herself.
What kind of person is Tori?
Tori is sexually, culturally, musically free. When the father held prayer meetings she masturbated upstairs, while her father forced her to act in a Kellogg’s commercial like a Cornflake Girl (one of her best singles), she felt like a Raisin (or maybe Raisin’) Girl, one that usually you don’t see in a cereal box.
Is Tori a free animal?
Raised in a claustrophobic environment, with a father who was a preacher and a Calvinist grandmother who supported female virginity, Tori will feel oppressed by the religious world in her family. But Tori is a free animal. Tori is sexually, culturally, musically free.
