In Times of Dragons: Tori Amos and the Mythology of Now

By Bergotte The opening line of Tori Amos’s eighteenth studio album is a command: “Shush yourself, down now.” It comes from the album’s antagonist — the “sadistic billionaire Lizard Demon husband” from whose penthouse the album’s protagonist is fleeing — and it is the most precisely chosen opening gambit she has made since the firstContinue reading “In Times of Dragons: Tori Amos and the Mythology of Now”