Tori Amos is one of the rare products of '90s music that has managed to stay relevant in an ever-changing musical landscape. At 50-years old, the singer-songwriter's latest album, Unrepentant Geraldines, continues her legacy as a piano-playing heavyweight.
In an interview with Vulture/The New Yorker, Amos traipses the Metropolitan Museum of Art clad in garb fitting to her status as a popular musician. In it, she cites famous visual artists as inspirations for her forthcoming LP.
In it she names Cézanne, Diane Arbus, and 19th-century painter Daniel Maclise, all central to her innate ways of songwriting and being artist.
An artist, she is, as since her solo debut with 1992's Little Earthquakes, Amos has kept irreverence a part of the façade of her unique musical ability. To wit, she was photographed breast-feeding a pig for album art, was rumored to be dating electro-metal messiah Trent Reznor and even detailed explicitly her own rape.
Unrepentant Geraldines is the 14th studio album for Amos and eighth to hit Billboard's top ten.
Last year, Amos and London's Royal National Theatre (along with Samuel Adamson) worked on a musical adaptation of a Scottish fairy tale in The Light Princess and now with her latest album, the singer-songwriter will have definitely maintained prolificacy in a time where most artists are struggling to clench to the proverbial mountain.
Hats off to Amos and with a new LP out in the loop, she should be able to stay in the limelight with her unique vision into a coming musical legacy.
Check out what she had to say about the making of her new album below.
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