Line #3 YMMV/ToriAmos


1	* 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.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3	** The long 'girrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl' in live performances of "Precious Things".
4	** 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.
5	* 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.
6	* CrazyIsCool: 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/TheSandman1989'' is partially based on her in later volumes, though in the beginning she ''just happened to resemble'' the AnthropomorphicPersonification of CrazyIsCool.
7	* CriticalBacklash: ''Boys for Pele'' 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]].
8	* CriticalDissonance: ''Boys for Pele'' was panned by critics, but it's considered one of her best albums by her fans.
9	* 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.
10	* EpicRiff: "Professional Widow" (harpsichord), "Precious Things" (piano), and "Silent All These Years" (also piano).
11	* FirstInstallmentWins: ''Music/LittleEarthquakes'', if we're going strictly by her solo work.
12	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Earlier in her career, Tori was much more successful in the UK than in the US. It's no accident that she divides her time between there and the U.S.
13	%%* LesYay: "Raspberry Swirl".
14	* LGBTFanbase: She's had one from the beginning, stemming from her early performances in gay bars and for working in [[AlternativeRock a genre]] that has been LGBT-friendly from the get-go. Her brash persona and troubled personal life have also given her diva-like qualities that appeal to gay men. She's also claimed that straight men actively dislike her music for its emotional rawness.
15	* 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.
16	* MemeticMutation: "Ugh, you were right... It's not subtle." [[labelnote:Explanation]] One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' memorably featured a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody of Amos named Tabitha Johansson singing a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmy9CTn6xMs "Oil Spill"]], which is really a metaphor for her vagina; the quote is Bob Belcher's reaction when he realizes how unsubtle the metaphor really is. Fans eventually figured out that "Oil Spill" was a (hilariously spot-on) parody of a sexually charged performance of "Icicle" that Amos gave on ''Series/TheTonightShowWithJayLeno'' in 1994. As soon as they figured out, the comment section of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53uqoLpnuGA video]] of the performance was bombarded with the quote.[[/labelnote]]
17	* RefrainFromAssuming: Tori never released a song called "Starfucker". It's "Professional Widow".
18	* SignatureSong: "Cornflake Girl" is what the general public remembers her for, though "Spark" and "Caught a Lite Sneeze" are also relatively well-known.
19	* {{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.
20	* 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''.
21	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
22	** 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 [[CreatorBreakdown how angry Tori is]], and she has mellowed out ever since the birth of her daughter.
23	** The general reason why ''Boys For Pele'' brought about a critical backlash. In retrospect it's regarded as one of her best albums.
24	* VindicatedByHistory: ''Boys For Pele''. Critically panned when it was first released, it's now regarded as one of her greatest albums.
25	* WinBackTheCrowd:
26	** Started 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.
27	** This continued with ''Unrepentant Geraldines'' which (at the time) became her most critically-acclaimed album since ''Scarlet's Walk''.
28	** And then both ''Native Invader'' and ''Ocean to Ocean'' built on the streak with the latter album now considered her highest rated 21st Century album on Metacritic.

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