News: Billboard Says "Big Wheel" Is On A Roll

Armen wrote in to let us know that Billboard has chimed in on the M.I.L.F. issue in this quickie review of “Big Wheel”:

Leave it to Tori Amos to turn a dirty acronym into a demand for respect. In the bridge of “Big Wheel” she declares, “I – I – I am an M-I-L-F, don’t you forget,” twisting the backward compliment into the definition of a woman you better think twice about messing with. We’re not sure which personality from Amos’ concept album “American Doll Posse” sings this song, but we suspect Santa, the Sally Kellerman-ish vamp armed with martini glass in the CD artwork. That would fit the jaunty piano that’s kissing cousins with a honky-tonk upright and hand-clap percussion. This is a gal who can hold her liquor with the big boys. Triple A radio’s inconsistent prudishness has some stations shying from “Big Wheel,” but the rollicking number still hit No. TK on that chart this issue. —Christa L. Titus