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Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos

Kristen Keys, Matt Mazur, Joe Vallese

We’re introverted—but when it comes to Tori Amos, we’re always willing to discuss. Endlessly, in fact. On this podcast, three lifelong Tori Amos fans explore her vast catalog through deep dives, re-imaginings, and thoughtful playlists. Introverted but Willing to Discuss Tori Amos is an ever-evolving conversation about Tori’s music, legacy, and what keeps us coming back, nearly 30 years and hundreds of songs later. Hosts: Kristen Keys, Matt Mazur, Joe Vallese.

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99:49

S2E10 SCARY Tori! A Halloween celebration of Tori...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/10/31

There’s not just one Tori Amos.There’s the mystical Tori. The one who whispers and stirs your soul with a single, dramatically drawn breathy sigh. Ethereal and enchanted. Imagine her as a church choir girl sun, faerie moon and a mermaid rising if you’re into astrology. Then there’s the sensual Tori. The one who moves like honey, undulating on the piano bench, eyes half-closed, turning her microphone into a… lover. Desire and divinity inhabit the same body, and she always finishes on top

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90:18

S2E9 Our Top 10 Favorite Tori Amos Songs with special...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/10/03

We are honored to have a producer, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, musical visionary in our presence. He's worked alongside some of the biggest legends in music history, and he also happens to be Tori Amos' longtime write or die right-hand man across many decades and many projects. Most recently, this dynamic duo collaborated on the wildly whimsical soundtrack that accompanies the New York Times best-selling children's book Tori and the Muses, please welcome our friend, the

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93:46

S2E8 Tori Amos Tea Time - we answer all of your...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/10/01

In this episode, we open the mailbag and dive into your burning questions. Will there be a 2026 tour? Is a new album on the horizon? We share our takes, speculate wildly, and cover the topics you most wanted to hear about.

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103:34

S2E7 Tori Amos and the Media

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2025/08/04

We’re doing things a bit differently as we welcome our very first guest for a very special episode, where we’ll attempt to scratch the surface of Tori’s complicated relationship with the media over the past three decades. We’ll explore not only how she’s been represented (and misrepresented) by an often unforgiving and unflattering press, but also the ways in which Tori’s intuition and perceptiveness allowed her to have the upper hand, talking circles around and discomfiting her

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119:37

S2E6 The 20 Most Underrated Tori Amos Songs

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/06/28

In this episode, we ponder what it means for a Tori Amos song to be “underrated.” Is “underrated” in this context even something definable? Or is it ultimately subjective and personal to the individual listener? Is a song underrated because Tori rarely or never performs it? Or is it a song that’s been played so many times that we’ve taken it for granted and can no longer hear the genius and the grit that went into its creation? Or perhaps it lives on a latter-day Tori record that’s less

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S2E5 The Tori Amos Effect: It's Giving "Tori"

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/05/25

We are Introverted but Willing to Discuss Tori Amos, as always, but on this episode, we’re gonna need some thoughts and prayers because we’re going to talk about something else… sorta.No, we’re not giving a Father Lucifer bridge-style middle finger to our audience. We are instead going to share our playlists of music by other artists that remind us of our favorite Tori Amos music.Let’s face it: being a Tori fan isn’t always glamorous and cool. Sometimes we are judged. Sometimes we are

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01:23:22

S2E4 The Tori Amos Country Album

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/04/13

Greetings to the cowboys, the snakes, and the kin among us. Tonight we have a real southern tale to tell. Somewhere out past the cat’s whiskers and royal palm, where the air hangs heavy with history, there’s a sound—low, humming, ancient. Maybe it’s a siren calling from a forgotten Southern shore, or the echo of Datura blooming under an October moon. Or maybe—just maybe—it’s the land calling back.Tonight, we’re following that sound through Tori Amos’ most Southern-infused songs—the ones laced with

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01:25:32

S2E3 Tori Amos' Silliest Songs

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2025/03/23

Known for her dramatic intensity and often-dark, broodingly romantic compositions, Tori Amos has perhaps unfairly gotten a reputation for being very, very serious. To be fair, sometimes she is (and we love it!). However, contrary to popular belief, when you take a closer look, Tori also has an extremely funny side. Her particular tongue-in-cheek brand of wit often translates directly into key songs that provide moments of oppositional levity and sweet relief amidst some of her most

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01:18:22

S2E2 The 20 Best Tori Amos Songs

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2025/02/22

Tori Amos’ expansive body of work over the past 30-plus years has covered most musical terrain. From confessional outpourings of emotion, to thunderously-programmed electronic beats, blips and whirrs, to stinging guitar-driven diatribes directed at the religious Right, Tori has become known as both an architect and an adventurer, as well as a consummate player. She has transcended the “singer-songwriter” or “girl with a piano” labels once assigned to her to become one of the most important figures

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01:13:01

S2E1 The Sticky Inner Hive of the Tori Amos B-sides &...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/01/17

On a storied, starry night in Nashville, in 2023, Tori Amos stopped what she was doing, and asked the audience if she should release a record full of unreleased songs. While we don’t yet have an exact answer on the fate of this project, it got us thinking: what existing songs would we add to our own personal B-sides & Non-album tracks playlists? The possibilities are infinite!In this new episode, Joey, Kristen, and Matt kick off the second season of their podcast chatting about some of their

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00:01:25

Season 2 is almost here!

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2025/01/14

And we have a new name! Messing with the Master: Tori Amos is now Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos.

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01:21:41

S1E15: Make the Yuletide GayGayGayGayGay! Bonus...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/12/13

It's a HOLIDAY (POSSE) BONUS! In this very special holiday episode of 'Messing With The Master', we delve into Tori Amos's holiday music across many decades, exploring her artistic evolution, personal memories of that amazing Midwinter Graces promo tour, and the significance of family in her work. We discuss the impact of Tori's upbringing and her respect for holiday traditions, while acknowledging that The Woman We Call Tori can rock the fuck out of anything, including Christmas

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01:59:50

S1E14: Boys for Pele || It’s Gotta Be Big (Super...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/10/22

In terms of narrative, composition and sheer scope as a record, Boys for Pele is one of the most audacious “pop” records to come out of the 1990s. Make no mistake: despite its twisty narrative, mysteriously confrontational lyrics and non-traditional take on song structure, Pele was a considerable mainstream success, selling more than 2 million copies worldwide and going platinum in the United States. Part harrowing journey into darkness and fury, part coming to terms with the aftermath of a

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01:37:42

Episode 13: Night of Hunters || There Has Been a...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/09/01

“I think the thing that just astounds me about Tori is that she can take a bit of something like a melody or harmonic sequence for some of these pieces that were the inspiration and create something truly her own, showing how truly powerful her own creative stamp is. I think of Night of Hunters as a 70-minute song with 30 pieces of music held together by 13 sets of interlocking lyrics. Now that’s composing!Tori was able to keep the narrative in my head at all times, very articulated and intricate

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01:39:58

Episode 12: Strange Little Girls || Mommy Makeovers

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/08/10

With Strange Little Girls, Tori Amos approached the covers album as concept album, offering reinterpretations of 12 diverse male-authored tracks from the perspectives of an assortment of female characters. The project was inspired originally by by the homophobic and misogynistic messages which Amos believed to be prevalent in popular song at the beginning of the 21st century.“People were talking to me about how popular music was getting more violent,” she recalled in Piece by Piece. “Male

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01:51:47

Episode 11: Unrepentant Geraldines || Take Your...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/07/23

As she turned 50 in the spotlight, Tori Amos’ 2014 album Unrepentant Geraldines dropped and was greeted with headlines trumpeting the singer-songwriter’s “return to form” and “comeback”. But here’s the kicker: she never went anywhere.Although she had written a musical for the stage (The Light Princess, 2013), and composed a 21st century song cycle (Night of Hunters, 2011), Unrepentant Geraldines was Amos’ first record of entirely original compositions in five years, since Abnormally Attracted to

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01:50:31

Episode 10: To Venus and Back || A Stroke of Venus

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/07/05

Content warning: this episode discusses pregnancy and child loss. Please take care while listening. On this week's episode, we book a round trip ticket To Venus and Back. Tori's surprisingly prompt follow -up to 1998's From the Choirgirl Hotel. After an epic world tour, Tori had implied that she'd be taking a break from recording for a while and planned to release a live album with a few new bonus tracks. As Tori's want to do, those bonus tracks developed into a full -blown 11 -track album with a

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02:00:51

Episode 9: American Doll Posse || Posse Popping and...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/06/27

Ever feel like just being someone else? With the regal and roaring opus American Doll Posse, Tori Amos gave her listeners permission – and a psychic road map – to become the characters who hide in plain sight in all of our brains; even the “character” of ourselves. With healthy doses of showmanship and flamboyance, American Doll Posse saw Amos sonically embracing a towering, modern production style tinged with classic and country rock elements. No stranger to being a sonic character actress

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01:42:32

Episode 8: Ocean to Ocean || And Then, Still She Gave

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/05/24

Content warning: this episode briefly discusses DV and suicide. Please take care while listening. “So what if you find you like to tango alone?" Tori Amos asks in the final moments of “Birthday Baby," the closing track of her 15th solo album Ocean to Ocean, released on October 21, 2021. An ode to the unexpected ways we collectively learned to both mourn and celebrate during the years-long isolation of the COVID-19 crisis, the song vacillates between a rousing eleven o'clock musical number and

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01:53:43

Episode 7: Little Earthquakes || When Pianos Refused...

Introverted But Willing To Discuss Tori Amos ·

2024/04/28

Content warning: this episode discusses SA. Please take care while listening. Objectively speaking, Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes is one of the all time great debut records. On the latest episode of Messing With The Master, Kristen, Matt and Joe lovingly look back and contextualize this seminal album, which laid down the foundation for the mythology of Tori and created a language all her own. The bracing new musical vocabulary of Little Earthquakes truly signaled the birth of a star. Very few– if

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