Reclaiming Her Independence
Filed under: Music Minute > Tori Amos
She's free again!
Tori Amos is going indie, y'all.
The musical genius is sending a big "Fuck you" to her evil record and deciding to pursue alternative routes to get her tunes to her fans.
The goddess' manager, John Witherspoon, explains the exciting new development to Billboard magazine.
He says:
"After 22 years of being in the shackles of the major label system, Tori has chosen the path of independence for her next work. As with many of her contemporaries Tori is devising new and exciting ways of getting her music to the masses without the boundaries and limitations of the major music companies."
He continues, "This will commence with a project of new music and visuals which is being started in the summer and due for release in Spring 2009."
Until then, fans of Amos should be on the lookout for the new graphic novel Comic Book Tattoo, based on Amos' work, due in July through Image Comics.
Freedom!!!!
Freedom!!!!!
You go, Tori.
We can't wait to hear the new tunes and catch you on tour again!!
First! Yay!
Second?
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bitches.
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This is freaking amazing news! Tori Amos is AMAZING!!! I cannot wait to see what musical innovations she will come up with during this new venture! Fabulous fabulous!
great
Does anyone know a good website where I can read about BRITNEY???
i love tori!
I LOVE Tori!!!! She should have been indy all along. Btw….. Doesn't it seem like someone other than Perez is writing the last 8 or so posts on the site??
I want Samantha Ronson to fucking take a shit on my face.I want to suck her vagina while Lindsay looks on in jealousy.I want to also have Paris spread her legs over me as well.I want to have a threesome with Samantha,paris,and nicole richie.This would lead to lindsay slashing her wrists and thighs bleeding to death.Then me and my girls will spit on lindsays cadaver.
she left or they fired her???? cuz honestly her music sux!!
There's something about her that I want to beat her up
Oh wait, several people already did that!!
TTOOO annoying
fifth?!
Tori who??…
So does that mean thst she will give all the money back for the 22 years that the evil record companies made her money?
I love Tori Amos! She may be in her forties now, but she still knows how to put on a great show and nobody can compare to her style of music!
Good for Tori her last 2 record labels have done nothing to promote her. Yet when another artist does "the piano" thing they shove them down your throat (ex: Vanessa Carlton, Fiona Apple, Alicia Keys…….I like all of these people but they were totally force upon us when they first came out)
I LOVE Tori!!! I am so excited to hear what she'll produce now that she isn't restrained by Epic records. I can't wait!
I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
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I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
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I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
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I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
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I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
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I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
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I thought you weren't talking about Tori because of that lawsuit Britney dropped on your ass???
yes new music and a tour from tori will be great! have to say i did not enjoy the posse show
I am SO excited! Wow!! There are too many Tori bashers on here claiming that her music sucks
To all of you~ I'm sure you've never heard one of her works because she is amazingly gifted. I absolutely LOVE Tori!
SO EXCITED! GO TORI!!!
Tori isn't for everyone, but I sure love her! Thanks Perez for beginning to post about her again!
She's one talented,classy woman!
this is the best thing that could happen for her. she needs a completely open outlet to create and produce. i can't wait to hear what she has for us!
Re: J – well, dumb ass; he said he wouldn't promote anyone associate with that label. tori clearly isn't associated with the label anymore. did you not just read the fucking post?
It sounds to me like Tori was DROPPED from her label and this is just a bunch of spin.
Re: Uh… – Artists make money FOR record labels, not the other way around.
Ha ha, 22 years in the 'shackles of the major label system', eh ??. Nobody has a 22 year contract so what stopped her from doing it before ?. Let's face it, no company wants to sign her or she cant get any real money anymore because she has such a limited appeal. She is going independent because that's all she can do now. Fuck her.
Amazing!
She was NOT dropped! She sells out shows around the world and her record company made a fortune off her!
Re: Nobody – ok… she went DOUBLE PLATINUM on boys for pele album WITHOUT ANY RADIO PLAY…, FUCKING MORON!!!!!! shes a GENIOUS!!!!!!!!
luv ya Perez!
I LOVE YOU TORI!!!! WOO!!!
GO TORI!
She's the best!
TORI USED TO KICK ASS, BOYS FOR PELE, UNDER THE PINK, HER LIVE DISC, ETC. SHE HASN'T PUT OUT GOOD SHIT IN QUITE A WHILE, AND I DON'T EXPECT HER TO.
Re: cornfl – Boys for Pele Released January 23, 1996 , ha ha, 12 years ago.
Isn't Tori one of the "she's dead to me" celebs because you got sued, Perez? You're just happy because it's one more person that you can talk shit about!
Not that theres much to say about Tori, she's not running around flashing her tuss…
just the same you made a fool of yourself in front of her on your dumb tv show and that was comedy gold!
Tori is a Kate Bush wanna be. Talentless rip off artist.
Queen Kate Rules!
Ummmm more like her record company told her to fuck off and now she is going the "indie route" because no one wants to sign her. Can't say I blame them because her music is crap…always has been and always will be. Just pull the fucking trigger Tori and live up to your lyrics.
I'm so happy for T. Her music is going to be boundary-free and incredible from now on!
God, I love Tori. I'm glad she's going to be free to make her music as she wishes.
This is wonderful news.
and lots of people on here are ridiculous.
Completely.
Congrats to Tori-
Can't wait to see what the future holds for you!
It's about time her label dropped her whiny, boring, annoying, vagina folk ass.
Oh i hope this helps her music. i loved her till from the choirgirl hotel but the last albums sucked :S:/
I hope she can create MAGIC!!
I sure hope she makes more records. I always loved her recordings. She cant sing live for shit, but i love her music
so now it means u can report on her yeah perez? don't worry britney will not be ditching her record label anytime soon, and we all know you're nothing without britney
"22 years of shackles", my ass. I LOVE Tori Amos' music and own/have owned nearly all of her albums, but if she was so in chains, she would not have signed with Epic in 2002 after letting her Atlantic deal lapse. She would have gone indie THEN when it wasn't so in vogue. I'm thinking her sales has gone steadily downhill since the mid 1990s and Epic is letting her go. Love Tori, but this is a dumb announcement.
the only album that i ever "got" was little earthquakes. everything else she put out after that was just too….. weird!
Re: Paulie – That sounds about right
Thats right, you burn that bra!
You go Tori! Taking a page from Trent Reznor's page….not bad. Long live Tori.
Way to go, Tori! Woot!
great! now we'll never hear her again!
She and Matty and Jon are in the studio NOW!!! So glad to hear she's out of the evil Sony's grasp and going indie!
I saw her second row at one of her concerts here in Chicago some years ago…AMAZING…
I love Tori. I can't wait to hear what her next album is going to sound like.
Re: Jenn – hey Jenn! who did you hear this info from???? awesome news!!!!
WOOO! Perez, I love you so much because you're a fellow Tori fan!! I am thrilled that Tori is finally independent! I think that the public is finally realizing that the recording industry is a bunch of bloodsucking leeches, and now that mainstream alternatives are opening up, people are realizing that the emperor's got no clothes and artists can free themselves. Suck it, Epic!
Congratulations to Tori!
Anyone can shit on a CD these days and release it themselves. Nobody needs record companies anymore.
Hooray!!!!
Tori is AMAZING!
Thank Goddess! Can't wait….
cannot wait!!!!!
Yes yes yes, the best news all week!!! I cannot wait for Tori to put out some new tunes!! I absolutely loved ADP, although From the Choirgirl Hotel will always be my #1!! Love you tori!!!
SOME PEOPLE JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET THE HINT AND RETIRE. A "JONI MITCHELL" TYPE, SHE WILL NEVER BE.
TORI I LOVE YOUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2009 yippeee!!!!
Tour Tour Tour PLEASE!!!
Yeeeeeeeeeees! We fans were hopeful that this would happen and now it is! Now she's free to give us all the goodies she has in store. I can't WAIT!
I remember the video Perez put on the website about her kicking some fans out of her show because they had to take a potty break.
I thought that was awful of her. It left a bad taste in my mouth about her after that.
Yay for Goddess Tori! Anything she's ever done has been touched by magic, and I'm looking forward to hearing anything new and seeing her again…. Love you Myra Ellen!!!!!!
She is 45, she is looking great. Most of the teenies here, will never look good in their pathetic lives…..
We love Tori! Thanks for bringing us this fabulous news!
Re: Paulie –
Her contract was only for 3 albums. ADP was the 3rd. She didn't extend the contract and instead left - thank gods.
She hasn't made a good album since 1999's To Venus and Back. She is quite awful now, which is a shame. Hopefully her new work will be better than the crap she's been putting out for the last seven years!
Good for her. She is amazing. A true artist.
omg omg omg! tori is spectacular and her recent label treated her like shit so i'm excited that she's cut the cord. i don't care if she been dropped or not because it means she's free either way. tori will always be powerful and sexy. yay for her!
honestly, good for her! She worked hard to make a name for herself, and earned the respect AND money needed. It wasnt just handed to her. Now she has the reward of getting to break away from the record company pricks!
AWESOME!! Please keep posting about her…she is playing Belgium this summer if you haven't heard yet
finally, she has been wanting her independence for a very long time. she no longer wants her "girls" stolen from her, her girls are her song by the way! tori is a beautiful soul that should never have to answer to anyone.
I liked her in the 90's, and she put on a fabulous show, but she's getting really weird with age. I saw her in a recent interview and she was just way out there. Couldn't understand anything she was saying. She seemed more like an alien than a gifted artist.
Re: con – Well, she didn't kick them out for 'taking a potty break'. According to all the other people nearby, she kicked them out because they basically hadn't shut up for the entire concert.
so she's shitting on all those people that worked hard for all those years to finance and build her career to make her as popular as she currently is….or has she just been dropped?
Basically she got dumped by the label!
To all you retards out there, her record label was trying to get her to be something she's not (a.k.a. Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson and all those no-talent, good-for-nothing barbie dolls) and she was not going to bend down and do something that wasn't her. And if you think her music sucks, you probably have no brain and are probably into trash like Rihanna, Fall Out Boy, and Soulja Boy. Tori's music is amazing, because she speaks out against Bush's administration, the chains of religion, the difficulties women face, uses her voice and actual instruments. I love you, Tori keep doing what you're doing.
Re: ac – if you know anything about tori, you would know that her label only held her down. they did not want her to make the music she wanted to make. and tori has never been a fame whore. maybe you should read her book, before you make a stupid remark!
Re: nola c – also, tori has been trying to get her label to "dump" her for years now! she wanted out, any way possible!