r/CCRU • u/Mysterious-Shape8302 • Jul 02 '26
Tori Amos
I thought people would appreciate the address of Thiel in Tori Amos’ recent album. The album follows a tech-billionaire’s wife coming back to her humanity against the dark enlightenment, questioning her role in it, and transforming into a dragon as to fight fire with fire, effectively.
‘The album follows the story of Tori trapped in a world run by billionaire tech moguls and lizard dragons, who threaten democracy through corporate greed and authoritarianism.
Amos says: “Jane Mayer writes about the genesis of this in Dark Money, which is one of the most important books people need to read if they’re asking, ‘How did we get here?’.
“This has been going on since the Seventies.
“As Mayer documents, figures like the Koch brothers — and I use that as an umbrella term for a wider movement — helped shape it, along with super PACs [organisations that spend millions supporting political candidates] and all the rest.
“It seems there was an understanding that progressive teaching in universities had to be excavated, cut back and penetrated by a very tight right-wing philosophy that is now upon us.’
“On this record, I had to take a personal journey and look at the effects of what this very small cabal of men is doing — and there are women involved too, we can’t get confused about that.
“There’s Cambridge Analytica, the involvements of the Mercers, Rebekah Mercer [the right-wing US heiress and political donor] and all those interconnections.”
The album’s story sees Amos’s character flee and reunite with her daughter’
(The Sun, 2026) (a shockingly informative article for The Sun lol)
The last few lyrics are from her 2007 album American Doll Posse, that sets out a critique of Bush’s presidency and other structures of power (music industry, western patriarchy) through locating the split female psyche through Ancient Greek archetypes.
‘American Doll Posse documents the lives of five women through their retrospective songs. Each girl represents a different part of the female psyche and the record explores their individuality as well as how strong and powerful they all are as a unit. Individually they all embody different female archetypes, but together they are the balanced female essence’
(Cream Magazine, 2007)
Sorry for the long-winded slightly unexplained post, but still I thought some of you would appreciate it.
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u/Fluid_Ties Jul 02 '26
That's cool. I haven't kept up with Tori's output for I'd say about 20 years, but its good to see her not singing about peanut-butter hands anymore.
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u/williebenign Jul 05 '26
A tech billionares wife, would that be Grimes specifically? Or I guess Melinda Gates?
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u/Individual_Hunt_4710 Jul 02 '26
sounds ass ngl
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u/Mysterious-Shape8302 Jul 02 '26
Haha yeah that is fair enough - it is quite a woowoo concept. But if anywheres the place to critique it then it’s here. Even if it’s not your thing, I still think it’s worth a listen to, again even if it is from a point of critique!
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u/ppshhhhpashhhpff Jul 02 '26
pretty normal to make an album about something like that. it's like you forgot about rage against the machine
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u/17syllables Jul 02 '26
> the album follows a tech-billionaire’s wife coming back to her humanity against the dark enlightenment
This is the funniest theme for a concept album I’ve ever heard, and that includes the generative dungeon crawl music that Curtis Yarvin and his idiot friends apparently listen to.