...doubt she approached her music with the same level of scrutiny as she does not. And partially it's the record company's fault, but partiallly it's where she was as an artist at the time.......she doesn't have alot of clarity or direction, and she seems to be quite conscious of it too.
It's interesting how some elements of Tori's classic style can already be seen. The sexual emphasis she places on "merchandise", the notion of wanting to express something but having it "lost inside". But honestly, I don't think she had developed her own voice as a artist yet. It is both a blessing and a curse that she was so well versed in other people's music, she had SO much piano bar experience at this point....she was always playing for other people's taste....i doubt she....
@leschatsmusicale You are such a twat. Many singers and actors have had to settle for a material they don't relate to when beginning their careers.
Nowadays one has Idol's, X Factor and and other crap which seemingly allows one to become famous overnight, but before it was totally the record and studio executives show. Did not do what you were told even once and you got ousted.
@leschatsmusicale Can't you moron realize that only perhaps 10% of what is published on a record is from the artist her/himself? Rest of it is ruled by producers. Why can't you just get lost anyways? Who needs you? I, or any truel Tori-fan, sure don't. There must be other channels for you to ease off the burden of your miserable failure of life, isn't there?
@BoraBoraSharkBoy apparently you do need me as a target for your hateful attitude. otherwise you'd just accept people have different opinions and let it go. anyway, if you want me to "get lost" why are you replying to my comments? it's like that commercial where the girl calls her boyfriend to tell him she's giving him the silent treatment. stupid.
@littleblackpistol lol THANK you.I said so to friends before and they were like ''ahhh no I don't hear that comparison'' with a confused look on their face. Phew i'm so glad others see it
this is as much a part of "who she is" as anything that came after. yes it looks like she's playing a part and trying too hard but so do the other multitude of characters she has created over the years. this is after all someone who talks about "Tori" in the third person. which one is the real person inside? I honestly doubt even she knows anymore.
This song isn't that bad, in fact i kinda like it. I'm just glad that it failed, who knows if the Tori we know and love would have ever existed if it didn't.
Well I know Tori and everyone else hates this album, but I like this song :) This is a great song, don't understand why it flopped so badly. I've definitely seen much worse...
Y Kant Tori get her producer to let her play the piano and not a synthesizer? Pianos were only cool to look at then and not cool enough to record - it was all about the synthesizers. - surprised they didn't put a keytar in the background.
@StrongHeartLives actually the producer says that she had a very clear idea of what she wanted the album to be... guess it just wasn't a very good idea yet.
Oh, this brings me so much pleasure when I show it to pretentious hipsters who idolize Tori... and say she's so "authentic" "honest", "real" and "uncompromising"...
First of all, hipsters usually hate her, so I don't know what you're talking about
But anyway, what does "honest" or "authentic" sound like? Such words are meaningless when it comes to one's aesthetic preferences. If you like something, do you really stop and say, "well, is it authentic? if not i, then i shouldn't like it"? I like Tori because of the power and originality of what she expresses.....if you think that's pretentious then you live in upside-down land.
I'm betting that if Heart Attack at 23 was the first single this album might have blown up! The problem with this album was not the music (I love 80's ladies), it was the lack of promotion by the record company.
God, I love this video.Y Kant Tori Read was a fabulous album.Tori was so talented and beautiful,even back then.This song is so powerful and should have been a huge hit.The lyrics are so true,such poetry,what a perfect commentary for the world we were living in then,and the world we are unfortunately still living in today.I just don't care what the critics say,I rarely pay those gatekeepers any mind,this album is a hidden gem.
Lol, it's definitely opposite to Tori's work at nineties and after. Well, who would have thought She could become one of the most fantastic musician ever?
this sucks cept for the bridge, but the fact that it's titled "the big picture" says a lot about what would transpire for her a short period of time with her career.
She looks like Tiffany!! The song is not that bad, you could tell by her voice that she can really sing. And I like the synths, it kind of has a teenybopper New Order sound to it.
@MsNowottny Yeah, it's generic cheesy 80s pop but there was so much worse at the time. I certainly expected worse than this.She already had her voice.
@riccardosaga Actually kind of true. There are only one or two songs I like off of Abnormally Attracted to Sin. :/ Hopefully she makes up for it in a new album.
This is SOOOOOOOOOO 80s and I love it! Tori looks awesome and is like some hybrid of Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth) and Kate Bush in this. Really sexy at the piano too:)
At the beginning of her career, she had to do it in a sexy (although a bit strained) way. We don't see that in her later productions, everything there comes naturally, still being attractive and seductive.
My super-favorite songs from the album are this one and "Fayth". I listen to them so much! I caught on to Tori during the "Caught a Lite Sneeze" era, but knew about her stats in this band from VH1's "Before They Were Rock Stars" once upon a time! (^_^)
Interesting to see how much she hasn't changed. Kept the same great voice, same great singing style, etc. same crotch thrusting piano playing she's always done.
The music and the lyrics these days are better, that's all that's really changed.
I see more Tori in this than I do in anything off of Midwinter Graces, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, and most of American Doll Posse. I feel like now she is just a parody of herself. I go to and watch her live shows and I feel like she is just acting like Tori Amos. She has her face and her eyes ::barely after the surgery:: but she is not her. Between SW and TBK the surgery started and it marked a noticable change in her persona and music and since then its been a decline. Crucify me if you must.
@nmothin I wish she would see this for herself. I think her change of persona may be part of becoming a mother and her priorities changing etc. But I agree 100%.
Well, I was born in 85 and I didn't discover Tori til 03. I love this tune. I would have loved to have seen her perform this song at some point along her modern career, preferably the band. I know in the canon of Tori songs it's not the deepest or "best" material but it is her roots none the lest and I think with the band it would be a fun addition to a live show. I personally think her epic career ended with The Beekeeper, maybe ADP. But I have always loved this album and this song. Go Tori!!!
I honestly think everyone is being WAAAAYY too hard on this. I have been a Tori fan from the very beginning....and I had never heard this until now. (somehow I managed to avoid it) I was expecting it to be really terrible. But when you put it alongside the poppy stuff by some respected artists (Simple Minds, Big Pig, Depeche Mode) it's really not half bad. I like what she does now much better. But I think that if you don't look at it like a "Tori Amos" song, its not bad for what it is.
@Jammindude Too true mate. Taken in context with when it was released, this was a really good tune, and the video is on par with the times. Cripes it was 88. I would say that a good 65-70% of people watching this right now weren't old enough in the 80's to remember what the scene was like. I too think her period from "Little Earthquakes" up to and including "Boys for Pelee" is far superior to Y Kant Tori Read, but it was also made in a different time kids.
This has gotta be a joke, right? Looks like a Saturday Night Live bit. She oozes sex. This is a woman that is clearly comfortable with her body. The semi-stradle of the piano, which really made me think this is a spoof, demonstrates that clearly!
I saw her 14 yrs ago when I was 16. That was one of the finest moments in my life, I have to say. Her performance truly blew my mind. Seeing her live made me fall in love with, and really appreciate seeing live musical performances.
@Patriciameadows Yeah, there's nothing wrong with Cyndi. As far as pop goes, she was quite respectable. This video shows Tori's vocal talent and her innocent drive to make it in the music industry, but she was much more adorable once she started being herself.
I love youtube for exposing how most "artists" on major labels are just product. Even the ones deemed sincere. It's funny reading comments here saying this wasn't her true self but the 90's version was. She was just repackaged. Who says the 90's alt chick was her real self maybe this 80's version is.
This is pretty terrible. It's as if someone distilled all of Kate Bush's worst moments and concentrated them into a slick, banal whole. Thank God Tori did the exact opposite in her later work: distilled all of Kate Bush's best moments and concentrated them into stark, harrowing catharsis.
She's just so hot in this! is that blue puffy shirt and those tight black leather pants, bare torso! Not too mention 2:45 ----I've never wanted to be a keyboard so much in my life!!!
It isn't a bad song but so cheesy 80's high hair pop. I'm glad sales of the record flopped because she realized it was a total sell out and changed record companies to do her own thing.
I love this album, too, particularly this song. I had forgotten just how ridiculous this video is. The cinematography is awful and the choreography is so not Tori but as others have said, we all start somewhere and figuring out who we're not is often an important step in self discovery.
I'm baffled that anyone see's her as signficantly different from, say, Rihanna, in terms of being a 'product' expertly designed by a record company executive to fill a niche. She's no more credible then any other careerist.
well, she does write and produce her own songs singlehandedly, can play piano expertly and has never used autotune. so, surely that gives her some credibility at least.
Tori has nothing to be ashamed of here. Everyone has gotta start somewhere...and this song is hella catchy. T'ain't nothin' wrong with a woman being sensual and suggestive as well as investing in 80s kitsch. Fun times.
i mean as much as I hate Rolling Stones calling her a "bimbo" for this record but if they hadn't i think we wouldn't have Little Earthquakes... still its cute... people were silly in the 80's hehe
awful love tori but this is so bad its good
jeremywells1977 1 week ago
Y Kant Tori Read is to Tori Amos what Mommie Dearest is to Faye Dunaway.
AlexDS69 2 weeks ago
Her abs look fabulous....i love shes randomly on an exercise bike for like a split second
tprayx 1 month ago
...doubt she approached her music with the same level of scrutiny as she does not. And partially it's the record company's fault, but partiallly it's where she was as an artist at the time.......she doesn't have alot of clarity or direction, and she seems to be quite conscious of it too.
munich64 1 month ago
It's interesting how some elements of Tori's classic style can already be seen. The sexual emphasis she places on "merchandise", the notion of wanting to express something but having it "lost inside". But honestly, I don't think she had developed her own voice as a artist yet. It is both a blessing and a curse that she was so well versed in other people's music, she had SO much piano bar experience at this point....she was always playing for other people's taste....i doubt she....
munich64 1 month ago
I kinda love this.
mimosf 1 month ago
Christ, could she rip off Kate Bush's The Big Sky any harder?
littleblackpistol 2 months ago
@littleblackpistol I only saw Kate's video for THe Big Sky today. I'm shocked. It's so blatant it's shameful
jnsash003 2 months ago
@jnsash003 I agree it's shameful. I'm embarrassed now to say I was ever a fan of Tori, now that I see what a phony she is.
leschatsmusicale 1 week ago
@leschatsmusicale You are such a twat. Many singers and actors have had to settle for a material they don't relate to when beginning their careers.
Nowadays one has Idol's, X Factor and and other crap which seemingly allows one to become famous overnight, but before it was totally the record and studio executives show. Did not do what you were told even once and you got ousted.
BoraBoraSharkBoy 16 hours ago in playlist Eighties Perms
@BoraBoraSharkBoy the record execs didn't write this song, she did
leschatsmusicale 11 hours ago
@leschatsmusicale Can't you moron realize that only perhaps 10% of what is published on a record is from the artist her/himself? Rest of it is ruled by producers. Why can't you just get lost anyways? Who needs you? I, or any truel Tori-fan, sure don't. There must be other channels for you to ease off the burden of your miserable failure of life, isn't there?
BoraBoraSharkBoy 5 hours ago
@BoraBoraSharkBoy apparently you do need me as a target for your hateful attitude. otherwise you'd just accept people have different opinions and let it go. anyway, if you want me to "get lost" why are you replying to my comments? it's like that commercial where the girl calls her boyfriend to tell him she's giving him the silent treatment. stupid.
leschatsmusicale 4 hours ago
@littleblackpistol lol THANK you.I said so to friends before and they were like ''ahhh no I don't hear that comparison'' with a confused look on their face. Phew i'm so glad others see it
twitterusernamebk09 2 months ago
@littleblackpistol YES! I was started humming "The Big Sky" during this song! Oh Tori! why! lol.
MrHavok29 1 month ago
I love that hair.
rlap 2 months ago
this is as much a part of "who she is" as anything that came after. yes it looks like she's playing a part and trying too hard but so do the other multitude of characters she has created over the years. this is after all someone who talks about "Tori" in the third person. which one is the real person inside? I honestly doubt even she knows anymore.
leschatsmusicale 2 months ago
I don't care what anybody says. This song smokes. I love it.
TheAdultChild101 3 months ago
This song isn't that bad, in fact i kinda like it. I'm just glad that it failed, who knows if the Tori we know and love would have ever existed if it didn't.
TheBelovedboss 3 months ago 6
LOLOLOLOL I'M CRYING OH TORI LOLOLOLOLOL
Whoompis 3 months ago 2
Well I know Tori and everyone else hates this album, but I like this song :) This is a great song, don't understand why it flopped so badly. I've definitely seen much worse...
harshstonewhite83 3 months ago
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I kind of like the song :)
cookiehead2 3 months ago
Y Kant Tori get her producer to let her play the piano and not a synthesizer? Pianos were only cool to look at then and not cool enough to record - it was all about the synthesizers. - surprised they didn't put a keytar in the background.
StrongHeartLives 4 months ago
@StrongHeartLives actually the producer says that she had a very clear idea of what she wanted the album to be... guess it just wasn't a very good idea yet.
ultramouse 3 months ago
I think this is actually quite ok. In my opinion, it simply shows how versatile Tori is as an artist.
nordstern1981 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Y Kant Tori Read
This is hideous. Thank god she found her way with Little Earthaquakes. LOL
demonhoopa 4 months ago
Oh, this brings me so much pleasure when I show it to pretentious hipsters who idolize Tori... and say she's so "authentic" "honest", "real" and "uncompromising"...
mariazo 4 months ago
@mariazo
First of all, hipsters usually hate her, so I don't know what you're talking about
But anyway, what does "honest" or "authentic" sound like? Such words are meaningless when it comes to one's aesthetic preferences. If you like something, do you really stop and say, "well, is it authentic? if not i, then i shouldn't like it"? I like Tori because of the power and originality of what she expresses.....if you think that's pretentious then you live in upside-down land.
munich64 1 month ago
TOO MUCH 80'S ARGHHHHHHHHHHH
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Y TORI WHYYYYY!
PlushieLenny 4 months ago
I was the one who took her underwear.
madsketcher 5 months ago
She surely discovered who was Kate Bush after this crappy release...
TheEcho73 5 months ago
I like this song more than Big Wheel!
FuckYourGodYourLord 5 months ago
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FuckYourGodYourLord 5 months ago
Way too 80s.
bezerker5051 5 months ago
@bezerker5051 that's because it was the 80's lol
Gatecrasher12 4 months ago
@Gatecrasher12 Well, not everything in the 80s appeared too 1980s.
Metallica looked like they'd stepped out of 1960s Woodstock central.
And that's no criticism, man. Far out and pass the acid, please.
bezerker5051 4 months ago
@bezerker5051 nah, would rather just the bong please rofl. No acid for me, them days are well and truly over hehehe.
Gatecrasher12 4 months ago
@Gatecrasher12 Well, if it wasn't for the flashbacks, I'd be halfway sane, too.
But in all seriousness, I saw Tori Amos perform at The Camden Underworld
in London, early 1992. I think you can imagine what a great memory that is.
And this Y Kant Tori Read footage is quite a curio.
bezerker5051 4 months ago
Lol the beginning of this video looks just like a porn.
ickaru 5 months ago 23
gone far
ntoro62611 5 months ago
this was my first time ever watching the video in its entirety.. i love how it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever XD
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
viridianmoonlight 5 months ago
The first time I saw a bit of this video I fell in love with it and the song, I LOVED IT!
Westwoodorama 6 months ago
80's hair, :)
MErEvolutionary 6 months ago
I'm betting that if Heart Attack at 23 was the first single this album might have blown up! The problem with this album was not the music (I love 80's ladies), it was the lack of promotion by the record company.
jessika7381 6 months ago
The cop just... walks off into the alley?
idkmybffjv 6 months ago
God, I love this video.Y Kant Tori Read was a fabulous album.Tori was so talented and beautiful,even back then.This song is so powerful and should have been a huge hit.The lyrics are so true,such poetry,what a perfect commentary for the world we were living in then,and the world we are unfortunately still living in today.I just don't care what the critics say,I rarely pay those gatekeepers any mind,this album is a hidden gem.
EWF Forever !
MySensualWorld 6 months ago
Lol, it's definitely opposite to Tori's work at nineties and after. Well, who would have thought She could become one of the most fantastic musician ever?
starkfine4 7 months ago
@starkfine4 Did you know another weird thing, that just blows my mind? Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver) was the drummer!!
Jackiechan39 6 months ago
@starkfine4 Proof that everyone deserves a second chance.
CashMyCheque 6 months ago 2
this sucks cept for the bridge, but the fact that it's titled "the big picture" says a lot about what would transpire for her a short period of time with her career.
datura1983 8 months ago
"Gotta make more money." Don't worry, Tori. You seem to have a lot of talent. I predict you'll become a big star by the mid-90's. ;-)
matleyz 8 months ago
I'm so glad she found a unique voice and abandoned this generic schlock.
MegaCrasher3000 8 months ago
Wow. I was there in the 80's and I don't remember this.
matleyz 8 months ago
@matleyz that's because it wasn't a big hit lol.
Gatecrasher12 4 months ago
She looks like Tiffany!! The song is not that bad, you could tell by her voice that she can really sing. And I like the synths, it kind of has a teenybopper New Order sound to it.
darkgardenia 8 months ago 2
Tori worked very hard to lose this image...
soren1435 9 months ago in playlist Tori Amos
I want that big white dress with a fan permanently below it.
VincentMichael207 9 months ago 2
she's so cute and the song is not bad!
theskyisbreaking 10 months ago
...fucking 80's
o8MetalHead8o 10 months ago
I actually like the music and the cheeziness! and I am a huge Tori fan. People made it out to be a lot worse than it is.
MsNowottny 10 months ago 3
@MsNowottny Yeah, it's generic cheesy 80s pop but there was so much worse at the time. I certainly expected worse than this.She already had her voice.
dummytree 5 months ago
Gosh, she's soo pretty!
X19grinder 10 months ago
Imagine if this had worked. Would Nirvana have killed her career too?
The1DonG 10 months ago
Take me back to the eighties. I'm finished.
TheAdultChild101 11 months ago
And here I stand with this sword in my hand.
Yootubebites 11 months ago
I hate to say it, but this song is actually better than some of the songs on Abnormally Attracted to Sin.
riccardosaga 11 months ago 3
@riccardosaga Actually kind of true. There are only one or two songs I like off of Abnormally Attracted to Sin. :/ Hopefully she makes up for it in a new album.
punkmonkey123 10 months ago
OMG at 1:53 - I've never noticed that guy shoving her over like that before!! Poor Tori!
Tanru2000 11 months ago
love thissssss!
AmandaRamaNYC 11 months ago
i love this album too!!!.... sorry the rec executives are jerks tori!!!
sunstarr2012 11 months ago
I came on here after reading the cracked article and am scared that I faintly remember this video from my childhood. Where's Freud when I need him?
melibita 11 months ago
LOL!!!!!
sparticle24 11 months ago
OUTSTANDING!
presocraticamente 11 months ago
Thumbs up if you only looked this video up because of Cracked.com
MusicIsMyWeapon88 1 year ago 2
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LaLeLiLoLuRa 1 year ago
This is hilarious!
stevenmcintosh 1 year ago
I think this is really good! Love the 80s and love TORI!
friaaa1 1 year ago
killer abs on that woman. i'm glad her career survived.
waterdol80 1 year ago
I don't understand why this music was labeled as "hair metal." It reminds me a lot more of Cyndi Lauper than it does Poison.
ebromero2 1 year ago
@ebromero2 That's what I was just thinking. Kind of sounds like "I drove all night"-era Cyndi Lauper!
dummytree 5 months ago
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Stupid talentless bitch. She couldn't cut it as an artist, so she had to copy Kate Bush and her style.
MisterBlue24 1 year ago
this thing is so 80's it looks like a SNL parody!!
amazing she managed to have a huge, bright career after this fiasco.
fantasmaformaggino76 1 year ago
That is hysterical! Nice ass though
MikeToddOnline 1 year ago
all i can say is... love her hair. rawr
wakingwallaby 1 year ago
RED'S A BAD GIRL.
ChrissieBana 1 year ago
tori had her time of being hot and talented but never could dance.i have this record ,its a promo copy which means first pressing from atlantic
megstubetops 1 year ago
LOL Tori is amazing
tenderbloodrose 1 year ago
Awesome. Love this.
stikboon 1 year ago
Oh Tori NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
ParlyCharly 1 year ago
She comes off as a cross between Lee Aaron and Kate Bush here.
theironworker781 1 year ago
Say 'Good Bye" Brittany Speers...
TheAdultChild101 1 year ago
I think some people snigger at this a bit but I think it wouldn't sound out of place on Hounds of Love - it's really beautifully crafted pop
longlonggone 1 year ago
Seriously--this is hot! So different from her later stuff.
garyifny 1 year ago
This is SOOOOOOOOOO 80s and I love it! Tori looks awesome and is like some hybrid of Jareth the Goblin King (Labyrinth) and Kate Bush in this. Really sexy at the piano too:)
Pemlola 1 year ago
@Pemlola I always thought Demi Moore could put on a red wig and look just like her.
TheAdultChild101 1 year ago
I just HAD to play this CD loudly in the car today...
Scotter1971 1 year ago
It's still better than most of the hair metal from the 80s.
Yootubebites 1 year ago
At the beginning of her career, she had to do it in a sexy (although a bit strained) way. We don't see that in her later productions, everything there comes naturally, still being attractive and seductive.
sombolexoo 1 year ago
This was a bad single choice. They should've went with 'heart attack at 23' instead.
Drewski217 1 year ago 2
This shit is hot. I've never seen this video before. This is so much different than the other stuff but I dig it.
breazeale666 1 year ago
Hilarious! The 80's were nutty - the lost decade of music.
mermaidofsuburbia 1 year ago
I hate 80's pop culture
psapper881125 1 year ago
FUCKING TERRIBLE .
gabeuop79 1 year ago
My super-favorite songs from the album are this one and "Fayth". I listen to them so much! I caught on to Tori during the "Caught a Lite Sneeze" era, but knew about her stats in this band from VH1's "Before They Were Rock Stars" once upon a time! (^_^)
hollshore 1 year ago
before Lady Gaga, Tori has put her high-heel on the pianoXD
yoshyuan 1 year ago 36
@yoshyuan Your G-d damned right she did :D
This is Tori's version of selling out but she stopped because it didn't feel comfortable.. Miss Ridiculous Gaga needs a lobotomy!!!!
misscarolinec 11 months ago
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@yoshyuan Your G-d damned right she did :D
This is Tori's version of selling out but she stopped because it didn't feel comfortable.. Miss Ridiculous Gaga needs a lobotomy!!!!
misscarolinec 11 months ago
@yoshyuan and before Tori, there was Little Richard
amollo01 5 months ago
oh good lord hahah :D
MaikaGoesForAWalk 1 year ago
what the hell did people do to their hair in the 80's?
skatapoopy 1 year ago 3
@skatapoopy
they used enough hairspray to strip away the ozone layer! (the real story behind global warming!) :-p
savetheunstable 1 year ago
I do like the video... Tori is just amazing!!! ♥♥♥
xHadaVerdex 1 year ago
Does anyone else notice that the underwear are in the officer's pocket when he walks away?
burlapkwanzaa 1 year ago 5
@burlapkwanzaa I really think that's the point...
mattttt1234 1 year ago
Sorry Tori. I broke into your car and took your underwear.
grogtgs 1 year ago 4
Am I the only one who thinks she's hot as fuck in this video?
crizzy71 1 year ago 2
@crizzy71
No, she IS hot looking in this video.
But the song (and the video, for that matter) STILL sucks...
UdoShan 1 year ago
@UdoShan Oh, no question about that
crizzy71 1 year ago
@crizzy71, she's hot as fuck in everything. I've honestly never seen a more physically beautiful woman than Tori Amos.
WastedPo 1 year ago
I think it's fortunate for the rest of her career that this little venture flopped...
wildeyjr 1 year ago
This isn't too bad at all.
Interesting to see how much she hasn't changed. Kept the same great voice, same great singing style, etc. same crotch thrusting piano playing she's always done.
The music and the lyrics these days are better, that's all that's really changed.
ozoneocean 1 year ago 2
I am drooling over Tori Amos on those piano shots and that white dress...great legs.
lalbruiz 1 year ago 3
I wonder how many takes it took to get down the faux nasally LA Hooker voice right.
TheNostalgiaSpot 1 year ago
Didn't she have a British hit with 'China In Your Hand'...?
funkyzeit100 1 year ago
I saw this on MTV in the mid 80's and I thought, " I don't know who this chick is, but she's way ahead of her time."
chuckn52 1 year ago
I see more Tori in this than I do in anything off of Midwinter Graces, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, and most of American Doll Posse. I feel like now she is just a parody of herself. I go to and watch her live shows and I feel like she is just acting like Tori Amos. She has her face and her eyes ::barely after the surgery:: but she is not her. Between SW and TBK the surgery started and it marked a noticable change in her persona and music and since then its been a decline. Crucify me if you must.
nmothin 1 year ago
@nmothin Tori has had plastic surgery? I never knew this.
jjpme92un 1 year ago
I am a big tori fan but I have to agree with you!!! Still love her though!
irngl 1 year ago
@nmothin I wish she would see this for herself. I think her change of persona may be part of becoming a mother and her priorities changing etc. But I agree 100%.
04jhowarth 1 year ago
@nmothin That's stupid. You don't know her. You can't say what IS and ISN'T her. Arists change.
KaidtFace123 1 year ago
Well, I was born in 85 and I didn't discover Tori til 03. I love this tune. I would have loved to have seen her perform this song at some point along her modern career, preferably the band. I know in the canon of Tori songs it's not the deepest or "best" material but it is her roots none the lest and I think with the band it would be a fun addition to a live show. I personally think her epic career ended with The Beekeeper, maybe ADP. But I have always loved this album and this song. Go Tori!!!
nmothin 1 year ago
long live the 80s!!!!!
CelticRaE19 2 years ago 3
The song is fine, the video hilarious.
tdreamer25 2 years ago 3
I honestly think everyone is being WAAAAYY too hard on this. I have been a Tori fan from the very beginning....and I had never heard this until now. (somehow I managed to avoid it) I was expecting it to be really terrible. But when you put it alongside the poppy stuff by some respected artists (Simple Minds, Big Pig, Depeche Mode) it's really not half bad. I like what she does now much better. But I think that if you don't look at it like a "Tori Amos" song, its not bad for what it is.
jammindude 2 years ago 5
@Jammindude Too true mate. Taken in context with when it was released, this was a really good tune, and the video is on par with the times. Cripes it was 88. I would say that a good 65-70% of people watching this right now weren't old enough in the 80's to remember what the scene was like. I too think her period from "Little Earthquakes" up to and including "Boys for Pelee" is far superior to Y Kant Tori Read, but it was also made in a different time kids.
Kalimata101 2 years ago 4
You know... I always wondered when people would say "Y Kant Tori Read" was bad...
Now I understand... It was THAT bad... oO;
Jadensamma 2 years ago
I love this video. "That's gross!" I laugh every time.
wenz0015 2 years ago
The most amazing thing about this video is that her career survived it.
bcherry68 2 years ago 83
@bcherry68
Well it DID so suck it up, you pathetic hater.
VeliSilver 1 year ago
ok everyone TORI vs MADONNA. Who wins? (and yes they are comparable artists - they're only 5 or 6 years apart).
jestinios 2 years ago
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keen14you 2 years ago
Oh thank goodness she grew out of this. She is sooo great now! So unique, creative, and intelligent. Love Tori.:)
knoyknot 2 years ago
This has gotta be a joke, right? Looks like a Saturday Night Live bit. She oozes sex. This is a woman that is clearly comfortable with her body. The semi-stradle of the piano, which really made me think this is a spoof, demonstrates that clearly!
I saw her 14 yrs ago when I was 16. That was one of the finest moments in my life, I have to say. Her performance truly blew my mind. Seeing her live made me fall in love with, and really appreciate seeing live musical performances.
JLTooks 2 years ago
THAT'S GROSS!
archaipersonae 2 years ago 3
God, the song doesn't seem so bad without the video. I feel embarrassed watching it LOL...
I wonder what would have happened if she'd been successful this way?
iantuition 2 years ago 2
@iantuition
I agree with you dude HAHA.
Either way, Tori Amos is quite amazing.
Imxoneofthefallen 2 years ago
We are talking about a major survivor of that legendary 80's decade, she's still on the run and, as you said, getting as old wines...
Ralpymorris 2 years ago
Y kan't Tori read?
Apparently, she was tone deaf as well..
UdoShan 2 years ago
Why does she have a cutlass?
NotYourMonkey19 2 years ago
Because Kate Bush had one too
DudeinGA 2 years ago 3
To imagine Tori being considered a Cyndi Lauper carbon copy at one point in time is fairly amusing.
Dusarrion 2 years ago
dude i was totally thinking that too lol
karadeniz24 2 years ago
Hey now! What's wrong with Cyndi Lauper? Yeah, she did pop music but she always remained true to herself.
Patriciameadows 1 year ago 2
Nobody implied any negative connotations regarding Lauper.
Dusarrion 1 year ago
@Patriciameadows Yeah, there's nothing wrong with Cyndi. As far as pop goes, she was quite respectable. This video shows Tori's vocal talent and her innocent drive to make it in the music industry, but she was much more adorable once she started being herself.
Wibblywoo12345 1 year ago
This is great!
Great upload, I love Reba McEntire.
LargelyGay 2 years ago
hahahaha
Dusarrion 2 years ago
I love youtube for exposing how most "artists" on major labels are just product. Even the ones deemed sincere. It's funny reading comments here saying this wasn't her true self but the 90's version was. She was just repackaged. Who says the 90's alt chick was her real self maybe this 80's version is.
nexusutube 2 years ago 5
This is pretty terrible. It's as if someone distilled all of Kate Bush's worst moments and concentrated them into a slick, banal whole. Thank God Tori did the exact opposite in her later work: distilled all of Kate Bush's best moments and concentrated them into stark, harrowing catharsis.
robwyattfan 2 years ago 2
Did Matt Sorum still play drums on this one?
Roniel81 2 years ago
This reminds me of when Alanis was an idol ^^
MrMountainshore 2 years ago
this is hilarious
bagyourface 2 years ago
I love the cheesy dialouge at the beginning!
She's just so hot in this! is that blue puffy shirt and those tight black leather pants, bare torso! Not too mention 2:45 ----I've never wanted to be a keyboard so much in my life!!!
donovanfrost 2 years ago 4
So this was Tori's "Empty sky" (Elton''s first album that didnt sell so well), huh?
DerekBayRoberts1 2 years ago
It isn't a bad song but so cheesy 80's high hair pop. I'm glad sales of the record flopped because she realized it was a total sell out and changed record companies to do her own thing.
joefederico 2 years ago
I love this album, too, particularly this song. I had forgotten just how ridiculous this video is. The cinematography is awful and the choreography is so not Tori but as others have said, we all start somewhere and figuring out who we're not is often an important step in self discovery.
20somethingstories 2 years ago
I LOVE this album
leaguecity 2 years ago 13
@leaguecity OMG where did you even find a copy????? I would gladly pay you for a copy!!!!
rygy82 1 year ago
Aww...this really isn't that bad..the song's actually catchy. :)
artsyalchemistthe2nd 2 years ago
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supposidly she won't have anything to do with her Y Kant Tori Read days/songs because it brings up tortured memories of her "rape".
xenopherus 2 years ago
what EV
leaguecity 2 years ago
i love it. wish she would do fire on your side in concert... why not?
mark4lauder 2 years ago
I'm baffled that anyone see's her as signficantly different from, say, Rihanna, in terms of being a 'product' expertly designed by a record company executive to fill a niche. She's no more credible then any other careerist.
pinkbosch 2 years ago
well, she does write and produce her own songs singlehandedly, can play piano expertly and has never used autotune. so, surely that gives her some credibility at least.
swooningtree 2 years ago
Some credibility, sure. But, not the genius alternative icon many of her fans fancy.
pinkbosch 2 years ago
agreed.
swooningtree 2 years ago
I may not like her music, but when she gets close to her piano, I fall in love with her. She is such and amazing person.
LuluRoxYourFuzzySox 2 years ago
Tori has nothing to be ashamed of here. Everyone has gotta start somewhere...and this song is hella catchy. T'ain't nothin' wrong with a woman being sensual and suggestive as well as investing in 80s kitsch. Fun times.
livefortheday 2 years ago 2
i mean as much as I hate Rolling Stones calling her a "bimbo" for this record but if they hadn't i think we wouldn't have Little Earthquakes... still its cute... people were silly in the 80's hehe
Rockart9 2 years ago