Where Would Music Be Without Tori Amos? by Sady Doyle (Buzzfeed): Doyle makes the case here that 1990s weirdo piano-player singer-songwriter Tori Amos is much more influential than you think. I mean, sure, the likes of Joanna Newsom and Bat For Lashes are very probably Tori Amos fans. But Doyle argues that you can see a big influence of Tori Amos in the likes of Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. It's just that usually we don't think of Tori in the context of pop - she was mostly trying to achieve something different. But look at the Taylor Swift performance below - you can see the influence.
People better stan for Tori! She was my first fave. Her discography is actually flawfree. Her lyricism, musicality, concept works, tours, covers, everything about her was and still is perf
