News: The Believer Article (June/July, 2007)

There was a Tori mention in an article from the June/July 2007 issue of The Believer. It was featured in the 2007 music issue. (Vol. 5, No. 5) The article is written by Gina Gionfriddo and is entitled Radcliffe, Shelley, Freud, Reznor. william the silent told us that this piece is about 10 pages long and kindly provided us with the Tori mention:

Tori Amos brought anger into the mix with songs like ‘God,’ but even then, the most a disappointed Christian woman could do was tell God off and claim the catty last word: ‘God, sometimes you just don’t come through / Do you need a woman to look after you?’ Of course, innumerable bands have played with rock concert as black mass or satanic pep rally, but these always seemed to me more Halloween party pageants than serious sacrilege. Nine Inch Nails was the first band I’d seen dig its heels in for a prolonged theological slugfest. And where Madonna and Amos played one role in the drama, Reznor played all of them—oppressor God, interpreter-priest, fearless rebel, petrified victim, insatiable Faustian transgressor, etc.

On the magazine’s website you can find an excerpt of this article, tho if you want to read the entire article you’ll have to purchase the whole issue. Well duh, I hear you say.