Re: Kate and Tori

[Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>]

vagabond@lungfish.remove.me.com wrote:

>I've heard people say that Tori is Kate-esque since /Little
>Earthquakes/ and I never heard a line of hers that made me
>go "Ooh! Katelike!" until /Boys for Pele/, and even then
>it was only on a couple lines. ("Big Stripey Lie" made me
>think of Tori, though...a vice versa thing.)
> 
> Anyhow, I don't think you could say "Tori is nothing like Kate,"
> but I would say that, discounting gender, Tori is no more like
> Kate than she is like, say, Elton John. 

Well Tori's perhaps as good a piano player as John is...but his 
songwriting style is nowhere near as quirky as both Kate's and 
Tori's are. While he has always written straightforward pop 
songs (there's rarely an unexpected rhythm or tune change), both 
Tori and Kate revel in the wilder and weirder -- alternative -- 
songwriting. They're far more alike than either is to Elton 
John (or any other singer/songwriters I can think of).

And "Big Stripey Lie," btw, also reminded me of a some of Tori's 
stuff -- but not from LE, from UtP...which came out afterwards.

Robb