Line #17 Trivia/ToriAmos


1	* ApprovalOfGod: Slayer liked Tori's cover of "Raining Blood" so much they sent her a box of T-shirts, though the arrangement was so different Kerry King admitted that it took him a minute to figure out where she was in the song.
2	* ColbertBump - "Icicle" had a small surge in popularity in the early [[Main/TheNewTens 2010s]] when it was parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS2E5FoodTruckin Food Truckin']]".
3	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Media outlets nicknamed Amos "The Cornflake Girl" in reference to one of her most popular songs....completely missing the point of the song[[note]]"Cornflake Girl" is a protest song about female genital mutilation, which was still occurring in the lesser developed parts of the world when the song was released in 1994[[/note]] and that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} when Amos made her comments about there being "cornflake girls" and "raisin girls"]], [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Amos said she considered herself to be a "raisin girl"]]. ''The opening line of the song is "Never was a Cornflake Girl".''
4	* CreatorBacklash: Amos fronted a synth-pop band called Y Kant Tori Read that released a single self-titled record in 1988. The record label stopped promoting it after two months, Tori had fired the entire band except for one member by the time the first video was shot, and Tori had, for a long time, [[CanonDiscontinuity acted like it never existed]], with good reason. She seems to have reconciled herself with the album, to the extent that she occasionally plays songs from the album live (particularly "Etienne" and "Cool on Your Island") and the album was ultimately reissued with her blessing in 2017. This may be an example of an artist reconciling with OldShame.
5	* CreatorBreakdown - ''Boys for Pele'' was the result of a bad breakup, ''from the choirgirl hotel'' was the result of her miscarriage(s), and ''Ocean to Ocean'' was the result of both the death of her mother and the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. As for individual songs, "Me and a Gun" from ''Music/LittleEarthquakes'' is about her rape[[note]]She was inspired to write it after seeing ''Film/ThelmaAndLouise''[[/note]], "Toast" was the result of her brother's death, and "1000 Oceans" was written after her husband's father died.
6	* CreatorCouple - The albums that then-boyfriend Eric Rosse co-produced are considered Tori's best by critics. Tori has produced her own albums since her breakup with Rosse, but her husband Mark Hawley serves as her recording engineer and guitarist.
7	* DyeHard - She's actually a brunette, but her dyed red hair is one of her trademarks. She also combined this with QuirkyCurls during the '90s and long wigs during the '10s. She started wearing wigs after the ''American Doll Posse - Abnormally Attracted to Sin'' eras.
8	* ExecutiveMeddling
9	** When she first submitted ''Music/LittleEarthquakes'' to her record company, they didn't like it and made her record more songs. Then they wanted to remove some songs from her soon-to-be debut. This is one of those cases where the executives unknowingly helped, since the second batch of songs Tori recorded were fan-favorites "Tear In Your Hand" and "Precious Things". They also wanted to replace the piano with guitars, since {{Grunge}} was popular at the time. Fortunately, Tori didn't let that happen.
10	** They also rejected her first video for "Cornflake Girl" (which ended up being released overseas) and made her film a new video. The US version featured the defining visual of Tori on a merry-go-round, singing the chorus of the song.
11	* FanCommunityNicknames - 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.
12	* NoHitWonder - For all of her success, influence and popularity, Amos has never had a Top-40 hit [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff (at least in the United States; in the UK she scored a number 1 hit in 1997 with a remix of "Professional Widow".)]] Her highest charting single, "Spark", only went to 49 on the Billboard Hot 100.
13	* [[HeAlsoDid She Also Did]]: Released ''Comic Book Tattoo'', a book of comic interpretations of her songs in 2008. She later released ''Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage'', a political work about how left-wing activists can oppose UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump in 2020.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen
15	** Tori wanted to cover "Music/FearOfABlackPlanet" by Music/PublicEnemy, "Hoover Factory" by Music/ElvisCostello, "Marlene Dietrich's Favorite Poem" by Music/PeterMurphy, and a harpsichord version of "I'm Sick of You" by Music/IggyPop for ''Strange Little Girls''. She didn't cover "Black Planet" and "Hoover Factory" because she couldn't find a way to remake them in time. Tori didn't cover "Favorite Poem" because she felt that Peter Murphy had already taken the point of view she would've taken. Lastly, she didn't cover "I'm Sick of You" because the harpsichord wasn't ready in time, and she didn't feel like doing it when it was. Whether these would've been more interesting covers than the ones on the album is unknown.
16	** Tori originally wanted to change her name to ''Sammy Jay''. Thankfully, a friend's boyfriend at the time told her that "she looked like a Tori". The rest is history.
17	** "Honey" was originally meant to be on ''Under the Pink'', but Tori replaced it with "The Wrong Band" at the last minute. She has expressed regret for it ever since.
18	** What would've happened if ''Y Kant Tori Read'' became successful?

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