News: SPIN's Transformers: Tori In Disguise (July 2007)

Jamee and Sean Curran report that the July issue of SPIN includes a brief Tori mention in a section titled “Transformers”, which describes musical artists who have drastically changed their image and sound. Tori’s transformation from “rock glam” to “earth-toned alt goddess” is the first listed and they, perhaps somewhat harshly, describe YKTR as such:

Big hair, ruby lipstick, cleavage, and a sword: the vixen pictured on the cover of the self-titled 1988 album by Y Kant Tori Read might have stepped out of a Whitesnake video. Inside, she thanks her label boss for “letting me make the record I wanted to make.”- namely, a collection of glib ’80s crud.

Of course, what comes around, goes around as the distance between Y Kant Tori Read and American Doll Posse is a lot shorter than 19 years.

Other artists included in the piece, which is not yet on SPIN’s website, are Marc Bolan, Dr. Dre, Vanilla Ice and Al Jourgensen.