History YMMV / ToriAmos

** Actually Tori said the song is about how she's always got her friend's although her being Tori she probably invoked such imagery on purpose.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Many of the songs on "Strange Little Girls" are darker and more troubling than the originals. Notable examples include "Raining Blood" and "Bonnie and Clyde '97", which freaked out the original performers.

* TrueArtIsOffensive - While nobody makes a big deal about her, some fan favorites sort of cross the line. "Icicle" is about getting off to Jesus, and "Professional Widow" has her call someone (presumably Courtney Love) a "starfucker just like my daddy" and her saying "give me peace, love, and a hard cock" at the end. She yells out "cock" for quite a bit during live performances, often with a look of fury on her face.

* NightmareFuel -

* NightmareFuel - [[NightmareFuel/ToriAmos Now has its own page.]]

* NightmareFuel - [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ToriAmos Now has its own page.]]

* WinBackTheCrowd: With ''Night of Hunters''. She managed to unbreak some of her BrokenBase and most of the unpleasable fans are enchanted by the album, with some naming it as one of her best albums ever.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/ToriAmos Now has its own page.]]

* WinBackTheCrowd: With ''Night of Hunters''. She managed to unbreak her BrokenBase and even the most unpleasable fans are enchanted by the album, naming as one of her best albums ever.

** Slightly below that surface you'll find the [[http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/tori-amos/the-beekeeper.htm rather infamous]] theory that the only remedy for Tori's [[ContestedSequel decline]] would involve [[CrossesTheLineTwice her daughter and bin liners...]]

* LyricalDissonance - "Spark" doesn't sound like it's about a miscarriage, and "Icicle" doesn't sound like it's about getting off to Jesus.
** ''The Beekeeper'' doesn't sound like an album about betrayal, adultery, politics, and other nasty subjects.
** This can be applied to a lot of her work. "Happy Phantom" is, in spite of its cheery title and sound, the thought of someone contemplating suicide, "Cornflake Girl" (one of her most radio-friendly songs) is about constant betrayal and disappointment and almost all of the tracks she calls her "Silly Songs" (such as the brief interludes for ''Boys for Pele'') offer up enough psychedelic imagery to constitute legitimate NightmareFuel.

* {{Mondegreen}} - Sometimes, what you hear makes more sense than what it actually is. For example, there's a line in "Crucify" that sounds like 'I have a bullet hole in my stomach'. It's actually 'I have a ''bowling ball'' in my stomach. Also, there's a line in "Police Me" that sounds like 'you are storing blackberry girl?'. This makes it seem that someone kidnapped a girl. It's actually a combination of two lyrics '...you are ''storming''. Blackberry girl...'.
** In "Playboy Mommy," the line "talking 'bout Hosannah" sounds like nothing else so much as "talking 'bout whores and nuns." Tori Amos being Tori Amos, this does not provoke a confused reaction.
** Tori is even #12 on Am I Right's Groups With Most Misheard Lyrics!
* SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove - Her 21st century work is massively underrated.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Music/ToriAmos had always proved that she could rock like the men, but this performance of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqH2YBdL738 "Cruel"]] is definitely her Crowning Moment Of Awesome. This is what some YouTube users had to say about the video:
-->[=ProfessionalWidow83=]: ''Excuse me, but this makes me want to fight, fuck, and dance all at the same time.''
-->byakuugan86: ''I want Tori to chain me up violently and play my body like a piano while she sings cruel in a deathly tone''
-->[=OceanAnimus=]: ''Now that's how you scare an audience ^^''
-->koolaidnhemlock: ''tori was ANGRY at this point in her life.. suffering makes for great art.''
-->peacebiotch: ''I love Demon Tori. So much.''
** In the middle of a performance of "Code Red", Tori [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8H13XmvstA stopped to kick out two girls that were being disruptive]]! Skip to 2:27 to see Tori being badass.
-->NeilGaiman: ''"The show that sticks in my memory was her first big concert in London when Little Earthquakes came out. Halfway through the set a drunk started acting up in the audience. `Show us yer legs' and that kind of stuff. "She just stopped playing, turned around and focused on the guy in the audience. She smiled and said `What's your name?' He grumbled something and she said, `You have to understand, I've been playing cocktail piano for 15 years. I deal with guys like you every night.' At which point the rest of the audience were ready to take the guy out and hang him if she so much as gave the word. But she just smiled at him. `This song's for you,' she said, and went into `Leather.'" "Look, I'm standing naked before you Don't you want more than my sex?" "It was the most elegant handling of a heckler I've ever seen.''
* CrowningMomentOfFunny - "Fat Slut".
** Also, the 'Brain Fart" improv she did in her 2007 tour.
*** Many of her improvs could count, as could some of her interviews. She's a funny woman.
**** Especially the "Tori Is a Lioness" interview. She claims that she would rather burn a man (especially if he's British) than a piano if she was stuck on a deserted island!
**** Other funny interviews include the one where she says [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8137Gho5C_c she has a 12-inch cock]], and the one where she [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28WNXWlU33M&feature=related rants about how "Toxic" is supposedly about toxic shock syndrome]]. Some quotes from that interview are "You can't have Tampax for a hot song," and "I love my fucking twat!".
**** Anytime Tori talks about her daughter Tash is bound to be this.
** "Big Wheel" has Tori chanting "M-I-L-F, don't you forget".
** On a Last.fm shoutbox for a Tori song, mostly everyone talks about an...[[http://www.last.fm/music/Tori+Amos/_/In+the+Springtime+of+His+Voodoo/+shoutbox unexpected topic.]] Although a stupid, rude comment almost ruins the funny.
** At the 2010 Bonnaroo concert: "Where's [[NeilGaiman Neil]] when you need him? Shagging [[AmandaPalmer Amanda]]!"
** At a gig in Manchester in 2011, Tori's earpiece fell out. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxXFvPXrl5k This]] is what happened next.

* HateDumb - Some people refuse to believe that an eccentric piano-playing musician with a vagina ''isn't'' a rip-off of the aforementioned KateBush.
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Me and a Gun. Also her song "Juarez" is already eerie, but it becomes this when you find out it's based on [[spoiler:the violent homicides of hundreds of women in Cuidad Juarez, Mexico.]] It's kinda difficult to listen to it now.
** Let's not forget her insanely creepy version of "Raining Blood".
*** Even Music/{{Slayer}} was creeped out by it.
** Amos' '97 Bonnie and Clyde needs its own entry. It's bad enough when Music/{{Eminem}} does it, but Tori actually puts it to what sounds like a horror film theme. Then consider the lyrics in general: "Where's Mama? She's takin' a little nap in the trunk. And that smell? Daddy musta run over a skunk."
*** Tori sounds like a psychopath. Rumor has it that Tori takes the perspective of the ''dead wife''.
** At one of Tori's concerts, a fan had an emotional breakdown. She was brought backstage.
--> ''I just said, "So what's going on with you?" And she said, "I want to come and join the tour." I said, "What's so bad that you want to do that, like now?" And she said, "Because my stepfather raped me last night. He'll rape me tomorrow night, and he's going to rape me tonight when I get home."''

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - She is either a goddess or boring, pretentious, crappy at covering songs, and/or a KateBush rip-off.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - The long 'girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl' in live performances of "Precious Things".
** Toriphiles & ex-Toriphiles can agree that her first five albums & ''Scarlet's Walk'' fall under this trope. A devoted Toriphile would say that virtually everything she has done is this.

* FanonDisContinuity - Subverted. Instead of refusing to acknowledge the albums that they hate, ex-Toriphiles will bash them. Although it seems to be played straight with ''Strange Little Girls'', even with Tori herself. On her 2009 tour, she only performed material from this album ''twice''.
* FanCommunityNickname - Fans of Tori call themselves Toriphiles and/or Ears With Feet, since Tori herself doesn't like the term "fan". She even made up the "ears with feet" term in 1996.
* FetishFuel - Many people wanted to be Tori's piano bench.
** "She's Your Cocaine" & "Sweet the Sting".
** Santa and Pip. The former is sultry and sexy, and the latter is vicious and ferocious. 'Nuff said.
** Tori is known for getting so into her performances that she drools. Some fans see it as artistic expression, some see it as disgusting, and some see it as HOT.

** Amos' '97 Bonnie and Clyde needs its own entry. It's bad enough when Eminem does it, but Tori actually puts it to what sounds like a horror film theme. Then consider the lyrics in general: "Where's Mama? She's takin' a little nap in the trunk. And that smell? Daddy musta run over a skunk."

* NeedsMoreLove - Her 21st century work is massively underrated.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - ToriAmos had always proved that she could rock like the men, but this performance of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqH2YBdL738 "Cruel"]] is definitely her Crowning Moment Of Awesome. This is what some YouTube users had to say about the video:

*** Even {{Slayer}} was creeped out by it.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - What a lot of her fans think of her last four albums, which drift away from her piano-based sound (except for the most recent one). While ''Midwinter Graces'' is her most piano-based album in years, there are some who hate it (because it's a solstice album, and not another angry piano album). YourMileageMayVary, though.

* LoveItOrHateIt - She is either a goddess or boring, pretentious, crappy at covering songs, and/or a KateBush rip-off.
** Tori herself has acknowledged that she is an acquired taste.
** Most people thought that "Ireland" was either a good song, or her worst song ever.

* TrueArtIsOffensive - While nobody makes a big deal about her, some fan favorites sort of cross the line. "Icicle" is about getting off to Jesus, and "Professional Widow" has her call someone (presumably Courtney Love) a "starfucker just like my daddy" and her saying "give me peace, love, and a hard cock" at the end. She yells out "cock" for quite a bit during live performances, often with a look of fury on her face.

*** In fact, 'Brief Lives'' is even better if you read it as Neil and Tori going on a roadtrip to find {{BRIAN BLESSED}}, which is in itself CrazyAwesome.
*** Of course, anyone who writes a song like "Happy Phantom" would HAVE to be CrazyAwesome!
*** Let's not forget that she named a song "The Power of Orange Knickers"!

*** Tori sounds like a psychopath. Rumor has it that Tori takes the perspective of the ''dead wife''.

** Actually Tori said the song is about how she's always got her friend's although her being Tori she probab;y invoked such imagery on purpose.

** It's been joked amongst some fans that the quality of her music is directly tied to how angry Tori is, leading to some to darklishly joke that Tori won't make a good new album until she gets divorced or she loses Tash.

** It's been joked amongst some fans that the quality of her music is directly tied to how angry Tori is, leading to some to darklishly joke that Tori won't make a good new album until she gets divorced or she loses Tash.
* UnpleasableFanbase - After the negative reaction to ''The Beekeeper'', possibly because of its upbeat sound, Tori released an angry album called ''American Doll Posse''. Yet, people didn't like ''that'' album either. Tori eventually released her most piano-based album in years (''Midwinter Graces''), and yet even ''that'' album gets a negative response (because now the fans have beef with the ''lyrics'').

* UnpleasableFanbase - After the negative reaction to ''The Beekeeper'', possibly because of its upbeat sound, Tori released an angry album called ''American Doll Posse''. Yet, people didn't like ''that'' album either. Tori eventually released her most piano-based album in years (''Midwinter Graces''), and yet even ''that'' album gets a negative response (because now the fans have beef with the ''lyrics'').
* YourMileageMayVary - The most notable example: ''Blender'' gave ''Scarlet's Walk'' 5 out of 5 stars, but ''Entertainment Weekly'' gave it a ''D minus''.

* {{Hatedom}} - There is a group of people that believe Tori's just a KateBush rip-off, even though they are different from each other both sonically and lyrically.
** Her cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" [[{{Understatement}} wasn't embraced]] by the {{Nirvana}} fan community. At all.
*** But Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl loved it.
** HateDumb - Some people refuse to believe that an eccentric piano-playing musician with a vagina ''isn't'' a rip-off of the aforementioned KateBush.

* UnpleasableFanbase / DarthWiki/WallBanger - After the negative reaction to ''The Beekeeper'', possibly because of its upbeat sound, Tori released an angry album called ''American Doll Posse''. Yet, people didn't like ''that'' album either. Tori eventually released her most piano-based album in years (''Midwinter Graces''), and yet even ''that'' album gets a negative response (because now the fans have beef with the ''lyrics'').