TORI AMOS concert PROFESSIONAL WIDOW

[shembalengu]

please play this in Oakland, CA on Friday!

[bunnyhead71]

why is this censored??

[hottaxidriver]

runs in the familyyyyyeeaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhh

[RFreigeldorff]

absurd. fuck it, do americans really think the world can't handle "fuck"?

[imabimbo66]

Is this from 2002 or 2003 - the tour I refer to as "The Shower Curtain" tour? (AKA - Scarlet's Walk.)

[gagidis]

Θ Ε Α!!

[finlay230]

haunting - awsome !!!

[jetelegen]

I hereby dub Tori the goddess, God, and other assorted deities.

[richievegas01]

Is it true this is about Courtney Love? Thanks for putting the lyrics up, after reading them I'm even more convinced there's some truth to it!

[warner72]

love it! hmm is tori high??! haha

[ceresasmom]

Why are the best lyrics of the song not up there? Give me PEACE, LOVE, and A HARD COCK.

[Gogolacka]

still i love the way how you can still hear the cock at the end :))

[thaddeuslowe]

F**k censorship, man!!!

[hiraethchild]

Fuck Censorship!! I brought this DVD back as defective, (before I heard her reasoning). I had a big argument with the staff guy at the store. A kid full of bad ass piercings and tattoos, who just didn't get my problem with the censorship of art. Yeah. Kids today!!

[misscharliebrown123]

she is hiigh!

[VincentMichael207]

What concert was this? Why did it get censored?! btw this is an amazing recording. I love it almost more live than album version!

[NietzscheOU]

@VincentMichael207

Hey there. This performance is from her "Welcome to Sunny Florida" DVD. Unfortunately, this song is censored on the DVD as well. Oh well....

[JollyMunkie]

Look, I am a adult. Keep the christians (with a little c) away from my ears. They are evil.

[JollyMunkie]

haha..censored

[Rotarrin]

Love the singer, love the song, but this is a shit version. I can't stand it when all the swear words are silenced out; it breaks the song's flow.

[meimnot99]

@Rotarrin but the delay in the vocs and energy is awesome. Boo!

[ravrik]

Wow. She's very good isn't she. And I don't give out praise very easily!

[bjensenbjensen]

is this really about courtney love? it makes since now that u say it. wow this has been my favorite sone of hers since '97 and i had no clue....fascinating.

[bjensenbjensen]

god damn!!!!!!!!!! goosebumps!!!!!!!!!!!

[TearInTheirHands]

I'm just blown away...

[poeticjournalism]

god I love this woman

[silpa8692]

this is one of the best performances I've ever seen...

[yoroisy]

i thought everyone knew this was about courtney love, don't blow your brains yet, we gotta be big, she's saying basically that courtney was using kurt cobain to get famous

[jazzhopin]

Then we have NiN Trent Reznor, who made the Song "starfuckers inc" because Courtney love ruined his friendship with Tori amos in 1999.

"Starfucker just like my daddy"

[SilverLining333]

I don't "get" this song, but I still absolutely luv it! Despite the editing, there's no mistaking the last word she says at the end... fantastic :-)

[Nasrudin06]

Amazing bass player

[relfexreaction]

i dont get the lyrics at the end: china white, brown may be sweeter, etc... what's she referring to?

[tombigbee29]

China white is street slang for heroin. She's rumored to be referring to Courtney Love's use of heroin to ensnare Kurt Cobain - "she will supply" a la Lady Macbeth. "We gotta be big (as in stars) boy!"

[relfexreaction]

ok but "brown may be sweeter"? :))

[spekkeh]

I reckon it refers to brown sugar (as in the Rolling Stones song), another name for heroin too.

[ProfessionalWidow83]

I could be wrong..but I think China White is cocaine, and brown may be sweeter, is heroine.

[exodus1334]

um, this has remained one of the best fucking tori songs ever. and fuck technoid douchbags who cant come up with their own beats

[ChronicRachel]

amazing!

[RoseyDanes]

I'm gonna see her in a month! Oh. My. GOD!

[Maladeisia]

I love it when she does that Michael Jackson thing

[justifymylove]

COOOOOOOCK.... whats up with cutting her mic like that!!! grrr

[musicmad2020]

censorship :(

[CaughtaRide]

repeat 5x. can't get enough of this one

[alyssaloo]

Tori, ROCKS! xx

[Maddoxhardcore]

She censors herself...

[heyjudette]

the makers of the dvd censored her

[djrachal]

she says in one of the interview she wanted that because of tash (her being so young at the time..?) she sure doesn't care what tash hears now a days, though. the interview is on the dvd someplace

[xxxswoodyxxx]

and theres matt laying it down like he's still in pearl jam

i love him.

[DATCH73]

I know, he's played with everyone, he's the man!

[alwaysinthetwilight]

I love this, but it'd be so much better if it wasn't censored...

[Needleheadnumb]

Yeah, I agree but I thought it was great she did. Her young daughter was there to see mommy's last concert.....

expamles...examples...

Thank God someone with all that fame thinks about that! :)

[strangelittlegirl27]

I was at that show Bitches! haha

IT ROCKED

[hunters116]

Censorship is a blasphemy against the great lyrics of Tori. I've seen this whole DVD before because my friend had it. I thought it was an amazing concert. Although you can't fully enjoy certian songs like precious things which I think bleeps out cum. not sure. but still.

[phyllismasters]

censorship is for pussies that like to control other grown ups...

[GlitterBoy666]

How dare they censor Tori. That's a disgrace.

[VenusInPisces]

@GlitterBoy666 no what is a disgrace is people using profanities in the first place

[lxinfernolxl]

@VenusInPisces these so called "profanities" are nothing but words. powerful, but nonetheless harmless words. It's a shame people like you slap such a huge negative label on them.

[VenusInPisces]

@lxinfernolxl words have power, they are the most powerful things in the world, can be used in beautiful ways, positive ways, or in negative ways, they can be ugly, and when anyone uses profanity its trashy, you can feel it. All words have an energy and you can feel the negative energy of profanity, its angry and ugly, I think that is obvious and it lowers those who use it to that level.

[dookie2kie]

your fuking joking me, fuck is bleeped out, I wouldnt buy a DVD that did that!!

Censorship is some silly idea!!! really it is!!! protecting the ppl from themselves!! how ridicolus a notion.. it doesnt happen on european dvd distribition!

Is the censorship the same for movies???, so how does sopranos or a mafia movie sound .. remember joe pesci's character. can some one tell me if that is all bleeped also!!????

[MyGr8DaneGuinness]

HELL YEAH!!!

[1michelemichele1]

Damn, I'm going to have to buy this DVD now

Not sure if I should thank you or hiss at you (still trying to pay off xmess' credit card)

[Itsallover57]

Its kinda funky. i like it. funk piano.

[CelticRaE19]

you can still hear cock at the end lol

[taraj123]

i just discovered this song and Tori Amos today and it's all so brilliant. Though this song has a cold theme and backstory it's sensative and just...well...its awesome.

[isaac8399]

HERMOSA CANCION !!!!!!

[nohumid]

i love the dvd this came from!!!!!

[vinilla]

omg this is the first time i heard this song....it blew me away fuckin awesome!!!!

[paulvesovich]

I HATE censorship! STARFUCKER just like my daddy yes.

[neverforeverkate]

LOL ME TOO!

[MaxRenn]

Total class!!!

[neverforeverkate]

I read somewhere that this song is about Courtney Love.lol Hence "china white," meaning cocaine and "brown maybe sweeter," heroin. Love is or was a known drug abuser.

[hotforteacher24]

Yes, this song was for her, she blamed her for Kurt's death...hence the title "Professional Widow."

[CaughtaRide]

you're totally right. She said it was about Courtney supposedly coming between Tori and Trent Reznor, and breaking up what was apparently a pretty tight friendship or relationship. Trent had named an album Starfuckers Inc. as well.

[Kadronious]

Trent has a song called Starfuckers Inc., It's on The Fragile. And yes, it is very obviously about Courtney.

[VolkColopatrion]

yikes.

[coolgirly08]

i love this version yeah why did they censor the swears out lol thats so stupidxx

[LiquidEye]

Search this title:

Tori Amos - Wantagh -12-Professional Widow

Its an uncensored bootleg pw from this tour. Of course the sound isn't as great, but it's as comparable to this as we can get I think.

[ed21198]

not a bootleg , burned str8 from sunny florida dvd.

[LiquidEye]

The performance in Wantagh, NY? I have the wtsf dvd and it is not on it. From the video, it looks like a bootleg someone filmed by keeping the camera on the jumbo screen at the venue.

[Cafeinat]

Tori y su caja mágica: el piano.

Una parte de mi es una viuda profesional

[GamingExpert]

thsts retarded they bleeped the words out none of her other cds have parental stickers

[NFB709]

FUCK! What a great delivery on an already perfect song.  My fav of Tori's.

[modem1001]

Wow!

[mobbyplay]

La hostiaaaa!!! GreaT!!

[anulay]

God...REALLY can't stand that a few of the words were beeped out all because a few sensitive people have some thorns in their asses...jeez...that's so lame. (I love this version of the song!!!)

[LiquidEye]

I agree... first time I watched it I thought it was a joke. I would pay for the uncensored version if there was one. SOOOO frustrating!

There is a bootleg version from this tour posted on here somewhere. Not quite as good as this one though.

[davidvonbarany]

Tori did this, because otherwise it would receive a parental advisory sticklet, and it's politically important meanings wouldn't get to young people...

[ed21198]

this is sunny florida concert on dvd and its bleeped out

[sixthcrusifix]

I know, fucking lame. Her albums say fuck and cock with not parental advisory but the DVD can't or they'd have to put a sticker on it. It's stupid.

[penrilfake]

Why are the profanities edited out?

[Aereoflash]

Tori stated in an interview that this was to avoid getting a parental warning label on the cd

[penrilfake]

Oh I see...how annoying. You can still hear "cock" at the end though =P

[Elurofila]

@Aereoflash but the cd is not edited out... I don't get it