History YMMV / ToriAmos

* EarWorm: Toriphiles tend to get a lot of her songs stuck in their heads.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: What many fans thought about her 2005–2009 material. It's been joked amongst some fans that the quality of her music is directly tied to how angry Tori is, and she has mellowed out ever since the birth of her daughter.

* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Music/LittleEarthquakes''.

* AcceptableTargets - She claims her favorite pastime is "shocking the Christians".
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation - She is either a goddess or boring, pretentious, crappy at covering songs, and/or a Music/KateBush rip-off. Tori herself has acknowledged that she is an acquired taste.
* ArchivePanic - While 15 studio albums may not seem much, they're often over 70 minutes. Also, she has over 30 official bootlegs, and lots and lots of b-sides and covers. Good luck.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic - The long 'girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl' in live performances of "Precious Things".
** Toriphiles & ex-Toriphiles can agree that her first five albums and ''Scarlet's Walk'' fall under this trope. A smaller group would add her post-''Night of Hunters'' work to the group as well. A devoted Toriphile would say that virtually everything she has done is this.
* BrokenBase - Tori's fanbase can be summed up as 1/2 devoted fans and 1/2 ex-fans who complain too much that Tori's not making depressing piano music anymore.
* CrazyAwesome - She's quite awesome, and quite mad, and these are codependent traits; She dresses up as different personas and plays two pianos while straddling the bench. She speaks of fairies and making love to 'the Wolf' in interviews. Delirium of Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is partially based on her in later volumes, though in the beginning she ''just happened to resemble'' the AnthropomorphicPersonification of CrazyAwesome.
* CriticalBacklash[=/=]CriticalDissonance - ''Boys for Pele'' was panned by critics, but it's considered one of her best albums by her fans. The album has found itself VindicatedByHistory, as by the late 2000s many music critics and experts have also come to acknowledge it as being one of the best from its genre and time period. It has been theorized that the album's poor response at the time was due to [[NewSoundAlbum its sound being such a dramatic departure from her first two albums]].
* EarWorm - Toriphiles tend to get a lot of her songs stuck in their heads.
* EnsembleDarkHorse - Many of her B-sides are very popular with Toriphiles, especially "Cooling", "Sugar", and "Honey". "Cooling" even [[https://torisongs.org/hunters-edition2011/ topped a poll of greatest Tori Amos songs.]] In other words, "Cooling" got more votes than ''all of Tori's other songs'' on this poll.
* EpicRiff - "Professional Widow" (harpsichord), "Precious Things" (piano), and "Silent All These Years" (also piano).
* FirstInstallmentWins - ''Music/LittleEarthquakes''.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments - [[Funny/ToriAmos Now has its own page.]]
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff - Earlier in her career, Tori was much more successful in the UK than in the US.
* LesYay - "Raspberry Swirl".

* MisattributedSong - No, "Kissing in the Rain" on the soundtrack for ''Film/GreatExpectations'' is neither written nor sung by Tori, though she did contribute to other songs in the film. This track is written by Patrick Doyle with vocals by Miriam Stockley.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome - [[Awesome/ToriAmos Now has its own page.]]
* NightmareFuel - [[NightmareFuel/ToriAmos Now has its own page.]]
* SignatureSong - "Cornflake Girl" is what the general public remembers her for.
* {{Squick}} - What some people think her song "Raspberry Swirl" is about: [[spoiler: having sex with a woman on her period. The "raspberry swirl" is a mixture of menstrual blood and semen]]. Although Tori confirmed that the song is about how she always got her friends' backs, but she probably invoked such imagery on purpose.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel - ''Y Kant Tori Read'' infamously flopped, and Tori's solo debut ''Little Earthquakes'' became a success. Some may say that ''Under the Pink'' is even better than ''Little Earthquakes.''
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - What many fans thought about her 2005 - 2009 material. It's been joked amongst some fans that the quality of her music is directly tied to how angry Tori is, and she has mellowed out ever since the birth of her daughter.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible - Most of her lyrics are very hard to decipher.
* WinBackTheCrowd:

** Toriphiles & ex-Toriphiles can agree that her first five albums and ''Scarlet's Walk'' fall under this trope. A devoted Toriphile would say that virtually everything she has done is this.

* ColbertBump: WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers ribbing of "Icicle" introduced a whole new plethora of people to the song. Even if most are there to make an "Oil Spill" reference.

* ArchivePanic - While 14 studio albums may not seem much, they're often over 70 minutes. Also, she has over 30 official bootlegs, and lots and lots of b-sides and covers. Good luck.

* EnsembleDarkHorse - Many of her B-sides are very popular with Toriphiles, especially "Cooling", "Sugar", and "Honey". "Cooling" even topped a poll of greatest Tori Amos songs. In other words, "Cooling" got more votes than ''all of Tori's other songs'' on this poll.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation - 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.

* MagnumOpus: It's debated whether it's ''Music/LittleEarthquakes'' or ''from the choirgirl hotel''.

* MagnumOpus: "Music/LittleEarthquakes".

* CrazyAwesome - She's quite awesome, and quite mad, and these are codependent traits; She dresses up as different personas and plays two pianos while straddling the bench. She speaks of fairies and making love to 'the Wolf' in interviews. Delirium of Neil Gaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is partially based on her in later volumes, though in the beginning she ''just happened to resemble'' the AnthropomorphicPersonification of CrazyAwesome.

* FirstInstallmentWins - ''Little Earthquakes''.

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

* FanDumb - Many ex-Toriphiles are very vocal about their disdain for Tori's recent output. They may even act entitled to music that caters to their own tastes (i.e. depressing piano music a la ''Little Earthquakes'') even if it conflicts with Tori's own personal happiness and her evolution as a musician.

* HateDumb - Some people refuse to believe that an eccentric piano-playing musician with a vagina ''isn't'' a rip-off of the aforementioned Music/KateBush.

* EpicRiff - "Professional Widow" (harpsichord), and "Precious Things" (piano).

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation - 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.

** 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.
* BrokenBase - Tori's fanbase can be summed up as 1/2 devoted fans and 1/2 ex-fans who complain too much that Tori's not making depressing piano music anymore. That's ''just'' touching the surface.
** 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 [[DudeNotFunny her daughter and bin liners...]]

** 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"!

* FanDumb - Look at the comments of a popular Youtube video of Tori from 2007 onwards. People tend to rant about how she supposedly got plastic surgery, instead of writing about the video itself.
* 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''.
* FirstInstallmentWins - ''Little Earthquakes'', and to a lesser extent, ''Under the Pink''.

* NightmareFuel
** 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.
** The dreadful implications of one simple line from Juarez:
--> No angel came
** 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. Oh, that smell? Da-da musta runned over a skunk."
*** Tori sounds like a psychopath. It is said that she 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."''
* SignatureSong - "Cornflake Girl", the dance remix of "Professional Widow", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "A Sorta Fairytale", and half of her songs on ''Little Earthquakes''.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel - ''Under the Pink'' is considered by some to be a vastly superior effort than ''Little Earthquakes''. However, many fans prefer ''Little Earthquakes'' or love both albums equally.
** On the other hand, if you count ''Y Kant Tori Read'' as her solo debut, then ''Little Earthquakes'', is ''much'' better.
* 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).
** 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.

* ArchivePanic - While 11 studio albums may not seem much, they're often over 70 minutes. Also, she has over 30 official bootlegs, and lots and lots of b-sides and covers. Good luck.

* 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.

* [[HoYay Les Yay]] - "Raspberry Swirl".

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

* CriticalBacklash[=/=]CriticalDissonance - ''Boys for Pele'' was panned by critics, but it's considered one of her best albums by her fans. The album has found itself VindicatedByHistory, as by the late 2000s many music critics and experts have also come to acknowledge it as being one of the best from its genre and time period. It has been theorized that the album's poor response at the time was due to its sound being such a dramatic departure from her first two albums.

* MisattributedSong - No, "Kissing in the Rain" on the soundtrack for GreatExpectations is neither written nor sung by Tori, though she did contribute to other songs in the film. This track is written by Patrick Doyle with vocals by Miriam Stockley.

* CrazyAwesome - She's quite awesome, and quite mad, and these are codependent traits; She dresses up as different personas and plays two pianos while straddling the bench. She speaks of fairies and making love to 'the Wolf' in interviews. Delirium of Neil Gaiman's ''TheSandman'' is partially based on her in later volumes, though in the beginning she ''just happened to resemble'' the AnthropomorphicPersonification of CrazyAwesome.
** 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.

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Many of her B-sides are very popular with Toriphiles, especially "Cooling", "Sugar", and "Honey". "Cooling" even topped a poll of greatest Tori Amos songs. In other words, "Cooling" got more votes than ''all of Tori's other songs'' on this poll.

* [[HoYay Les Yay]] - "Raspberry Swirl".

*** Tori sounds like a psychopath. It is said that she takes the perspective of the ''dead wife''.

* 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).

* CriticalBacklash & CriticalDissonance - ''Boys for Pele'' was panned by critics, but it's considered one of her best albums by her fans.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Many of the songs on "Strange Little Girls" are darker and more troubling than the originals. Notable examples include "Raining Blood" and "'97 Bonnie and Clyde", which freaked out the original performers.

* {{Squick}} - What some people think her song "Raspberry Swirl" is about: [[spoiler: having sex with a woman on her period. The "raspberry swirl" is a mixture of menstrual blood and semen]].
** Actually Tori said the song is about how she's always got her friend's backs, although her being Tori, she probably invoked such imagery on purpose.
* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel - ''Under the Pink'' is considered by some to be a vastly superior effort than ''Little Earthquakes''.