[GeraldCortis]

TORI AMOS
UNDER THE PINK
(ATLANTIC)
Released: January/February 1994
Chart: UK No.1 / US No.12

• Pretty Good Year
• God
• Bells for Her
• Past the Mission
• Baker Baker
• The Wrong Band
• The Waitress
• Cornflake Girl
• Icicle
• Cloud On My Tongue
• Space Dog
• Yes, Anastasia

Non-album tracks:

• A Case of You
• Black Swan
• Daisy Dead Petals
• Home on the Range: Cherokee Edition
• Honey
• If 6 Was 9
• Peeping Tommi (released 2006)
• Piano Suite - All the Girls Hate Her / Over It
• Sister Janet
• Strange Fruit

I was gonna take a year off, but the songs just demanded that I tell their story, and their story was about life under the pink. That's why the album is called Under the Pink. These are just some of the different lives that happen in that world. If you ripped everybody's skin off, we're all pink, the way I see it. And this is about what's going on inside of that. That's what I'm really interested in, not the outer world but the inner world. There are many other songs that live under the pink. These are just a few of them, these are just the girls who decided to come to the party. If there's a theme on Under the Pink, it's one of self-empowerment - whether it's women acknowledging the violence in themselves or people coming to terms with the loss of hope. It's about the refusal to see yourself as a victim, and how to have passion in your life without equating it with violence. It's just as personal and just as involved as before. There might be other characters in these songs that we haven't met before, but it's still me.

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