Re: Tori Amos reviewed by _US_ magazine

[rufus@cis.umassd.edu (Rui N Campos)]

In <66519@apple.Apple.COM> mdc@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Melissa D. Caldwell) writes:


>track of her volcanically overblown solo debut album.  Give us a
>break!  The fact that Amos owns a distinctive, rangy voice and
>credible literary bent only magnifies the problem.  She's an
>attractive, if half-formed talent shoved into the soul-baring
>glare of the singer-songwriter spotlight.  _Little Earthquakes_
>erupts in a meticulously produced lava barrage: supercharged
>Freudian imagery, swooping string arrangements, scat-singing
>riffs, corpulent rock guitar discharges, "reflective" me-and-my
>piano passages.  And that's just on one song.

This reminds me of a review of Kate Bush's TSW in Time Magazine.  It said 
that this was yet another album of fake emotion and histrionics!  Talk about
being way off the mark. Histrionics is not a word that I would use describing
Kate.  Oh well, Geniuses are rarely appreciated in their lifetimes.

Rui