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Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons

Pitchfork·Emma Madden·about 1 month ago
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If Tori Amos ’ enormous back catalog could be reduced to a single throughline, it would be her struggle with the devil. Just like in the Book of Genesis, Satan often takes the form of snakes and reptiles in her songs, as well as rapist, pillager, boyfriend, and, quite often, Amos herself. Up until her 2017 album, Native Invader , Satan stood in for an amalgam of everything malign: an archetype and recurring form within which Amos works. But in her most recent three albums, Satan takes on his most particular form yet: our present autocracy and oligarchy, embodied in the most overdetermined example of the trickster archetype, Donald Trump. On her 18th studio album, In Time of Dragons , Amos draws on the long tradition of reptilian imagery to symbolize the elite, from ancient myth to David Icke’s conspiracy theories.…

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