{"id":2436193,"date":"2026-05-28T23:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2436193"},"modified":"2026-05-28T23:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T23:15:10","slug":"tori-amos-interview-in-times-of-dragons-and-women-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tori-amos-interview-in-times-of-dragons-and-women-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Tori Amos interview: In Times Of Dragons and women in music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-38b7df70-23b9-49f6-aa5f-ce583a7946a2\">In 1992, American singer-songwriter Tori Amos was applying a defibrillator to piano-led rock with her uncompromising debut album <em>Little Earthquakes<\/em>. Her catalogue has mixed sometimes harrowing personal experience with cultural commentary channelled through art-pop chops and progressive arrangements, ultimately making her one of the most imaginative and thought-provoking artists around.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Amos is in her Cornwall studio rehearsing for a huge European tour, and reflecting on the making of <em>In Times Of Dragons<\/em>. The two-disc album is her second concept record, influenced by current political events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a task and a calling,\u201d Amos says. \u201cThe writing was a mix of delight and torture. There\u2019s so much stitching you have to do on the narrative side. 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My character, Tori, is me, but in the story I\u2019m married to a billionaire who\u2019s changed over the years and is the power behind the presidency in the United States. He\u2019s a Lizard Demon, based on an amalgamation of very powerful people. The record starts with <em>Shush<\/em>, where Tori\u2019s under threat \u2013 if she doesn\u2019t agree with his beliefs and where he stands, then she has no choice but to flee for her life. So that\u2019s what she does, heading to the Deep South.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In doing so, Tori meets a cast of characters. Are these people real, or parts of you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure. The Gay Witch from Brooklyn exists. He\u2019s one of my dear friends, a journalist and a benevolent witch who\u2019s been casting for years. I sent him a message at the end of July [last year] to reach out to Lugh of the Long Arm, the Celtic god. I felt like I needed Lugh\u2019s protection if I were going up against these real forces that want to create a feudal system in our world, taking us back hundreds of years. My character, though, is turning into a dragon. 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Is she following in mum\u2019s footsteps?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s in law school, graduating this year and going into criminal law. She wants to get the bad guys. But she loves to sing, and she co-wrote three of the songs on the record with me: <em>Stronger Together, Veins<\/em> and <em>Strawberry Moon<\/em>. In the story she plays The Daughter. 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Are you nervous about piping up, given how sensitive Trump is?<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-2 pb-0 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            What to read next<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Well, we\u2019ll see what Gulag I get thrown in. The American democracy experiment is completely on the line; my daughter says they talk about it every day in school. We are in a constitutional crisis. I had to look that reality in the eye and then address it in the safest way.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ode To Minnesota<\/strong><\/em><strong> is a show of solidarity to oppressed people. When did you write that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Near the very end, I was working on a song called Denmark, but this came ploughing through and just took over my every cell. What happened in Minnesota with ICE [the disastrous occupation of the state by agitable US immigration enforcement] is a sea change culturally. America needed to wake up \u2013 unfortunately it took this to do it, a tragedy. The people of Minnesota showed us a bravery that maybe we didn\u2019t know we had in ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You performed Bob Dylan\u2019s <\/strong><em><strong>The Times They Are A-Changin\u2019<\/strong><\/em><strong> in the BBC Radio Two Piano Room in February. Has that always been an important song for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, but Matt Chamberlain, who played drums on this record, toured with Dylan pre-pandemic. He spoke about Dylan\u2019s dedication to the work. With Radio Two, you pick a song to cover that you\u2019ve not performed before. I\u2019ve done a lot of covers, so I started digging, and Dylan was on my mind. The line \u2018<em>Senators, congressmen, please heed the call\/Don\u2019t stand in the doorway, don\u2019t block up the hall<\/em>\u2019 felt as relevant and poignant now as it was in the sixties when he wrote it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video youtube-facade\" data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"elk-oDQ6Yph8_DM\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\">\n<div class=\"watch-on-iframe-oDQ6Yph8_DM\" data-yt-video-token=\"oDQ6Yph8_DM\" title=\"Tori Amos - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan) ft. BBC Concert Orchestra | Radio 2 Piano Room - YouTube\">\n<span class=\"youtube-video-title\">Tori Amos &#8211; The Times They Are A-Changin&#8217; (Bob Dylan) ft. BBC Concert Orchestra | Radio 2 Piano Room &#8211; YouTube<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/oDQ6Yph8_DM\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Tori Amos - The Times They Are A-Changin' (Bob Dylan) ft. 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It includes the most unusual, disturbing cover of Slayer\u2019s <\/strong><em><strong>Raining Blood<\/strong><\/em><strong>. Why did you choose that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Covering that was a message for the patriarchy, especially back in 2001. My concern for women then, and now, was having so few freedoms, so few rights, and being controlled by a type of poisonous state. When I heard <em>Raining Blood<\/em> I had a vision of this huge vagina in the sky that was dripping blood everywhere, like the elements were rising up to combat this force of malevolent patriarchal force. [Slayer] sent me a fabulous box of T-shirts for that. They were so lovely about it [laughs].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the music industry a better space for women now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because of social media, yes. Before, gatekeepers made it difficult to get to the public. Radio wasn\u2019t necessarily my best friend, neither was MTV. I reached people through the press and through touring. But there were journalists that wanted to talk, and not about fluff. They wanted to talk about things like the inequalities that were happening to female artists being put out to pasture once they were thirty-five years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There\u2019s a clip on social media of you playing live and you tell your audience: \u201cI love you, but I don\u2019t want to be twenty-five\u2026 When you\u2019re fifty you\u2019ll understand what fire is.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With menopause you have to adapt or the suffering can be great. Men age and, especially if they have power, that can be an aphrodisiac. Women who have experience and hold the fire of that, that becomes an aphrodisiac. I\u2019m finding being older, having that experience is pretty hot. Women who know their own mind are hot. But I had quite a journey to finding that out.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In Times Of Dragons is out now via Fontana<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr id=\"elk-0d58368d-1752-4379-b231-7230ca34dd43\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-b664a612-51bc-4f79-b719-178283ff9512\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-model-name=\"Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons\" data-render-type=\"editorial\" data-widget-title=\"Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons - Today's Best Prices\" data-widget-type=\"review\" class=\"hawk-root\">\n<div class=\"hawk-main-editorial-container\">\n<p>Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons &#8211; Today&#8217;s Best Prices<\/p>\n<div class=\"hawk-grid-items-container hawk-review-items-grid-items\" data-stacked=\"0\">\n<div class=\"hawk-grid-item-container hawk-review-items-grid-item\" data-expandable=\"0\" data-stacked=\"0\" data-load-more=\"false\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"hawk-grid-item-main-container hawk-review-items-grid-item-main\" data-product-type=\"1000\" data-button-type=\"\" data-stacked=\"0\" data-expanded=\"0\">\n<div class=\"hawk-grid-item-block-container hawk-review-items-grid-item-block\" data-name=\"image\" data-product-type=\"1000\" data-button-type=\"\" data-stacked=\"0\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" aria-label=\"View Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons on Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=38569&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fdp%2FB0G6RYKMGT%3Ftag%3Dftr-loudersound-gb-21%26linkCode%3Dogi%26th%3D1%26psc%3D1%26ascsubtag%3Dloudersound-gb-3416720744263203545-21\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"hawk-affiliate-link-container\" data-product-key=\"26999-B0G6RYKMGT\" data-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=38569&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fdp%2FB0G6RYKMGT%3Ftag%3Dftr-loudersound-gb-21%26linkCode%3Dogi%26th%3D1%26psc%3D1%26ascsubtag%3Dloudersound-gb-3416720744263203545-21\" data-model-id=\"1065788\" data-match-id=\"992921032\" data-product-type=\"1000\" data-link-merchant=\"Amazon\" data-merchant-id=\"1027\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon\" data-merchant-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonuk\" data-aps-asin=\"B0G6RYKMGT\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" tabindex=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.fie.futurecdn.net\/f5pr6s8g8eyxhwjq-17799410477164-100-80.jpg.webp\" alt=\"In Times Of Dragons\" title=\"In Times Of Dragons\" class=\"hawk-lazy-image-product-image\" draggable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"78\" height=\"70\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"hawk-grid-item-block-container hawk-review-items-grid-item-block\" data-name=\"merchant\" data-product-type=\"1000\" data-button-type=\"\" data-stacked=\"0\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" aria-label=\"View Tori Amos: In Times Of Dragons on Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=38569&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fdp%2FB0G6RYKMGT%3Ftag%3Dftr-loudersound-gb-21%26linkCode%3Dogi%26th%3D1%26psc%3D1%26ascsubtag%3Dloudersound-gb-3416720744263203545-21\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" class=\"hawk-affiliate-link-container\" data-product-key=\"26999-B0G6RYKMGT\" data-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=38569&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fdp%2FB0G6RYKMGT%3Ftag%3Dftr-loudersound-gb-21%26linkCode%3Dogi%26th%3D1%26psc%3D1%26ascsubtag%3Dloudersound-gb-3416720744263203545-21\" data-model-id=\"1065788\" data-match-id=\"992921032\" data-product-type=\"1000\" data-link-merchant=\"Amazon\" data-merchant-id=\"1027\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon\" data-merchant-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazonuk\" data-aps-asin=\"B0G6RYKMGT\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" tabindex=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.fie.futurecdn.net\/logos\/merchants\/amazon-uk-14606342093191-100-80.png.webp\" alt=\"Amazon\" title=\"Amazon\" class=\"hawk-lazy-image-logo-image\" draggable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.loudersound.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1992, American singer-songwriter Tori Amos was applying a defibrillator to piano-led rock with her uncompromising debut album Little Earthquakes. 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