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...there is nothing elegant about the subjects she addresses in conversation, let alone in her songs: rape, miscarriage, sacrilege, death. These indelicate matters aren't what gets Amos blushing on this blustery spring afternoon, however. She chuckles with embarrassment only when acknowledging that, yes, she has performed certain pop songs that will never, ever see the light of day. Like cover versions of Pat Benatar's Love Is a Battlefield and Madonna's Like A Virgin, which she worked up one giddy evening in a British farmhouse while recording her latest album, From the Choirgirl Hotel. "My Like A Virgin is absolutely vulgar -- it can't be played anywhere; it's not even for cable," she says with a laugh, fumbling the cup inches from her lips and dripping broth onto the hotel couch.
-- Tori; Chicago Tribune, May 17, 1998
"But I have done have a cover of Love Is A Battlefield, I was, um, we were, something was going on in the studio when we were recording Choirgirl and Johnny makes these red little drinks with s___, and so the band was there and we're not usually overly lush, but there is this, too many storms, too many problems, and some how, these little red drinks were going around, and I end up doing this cover of Like A Virgin, which is just, um, vulgar...and Love Is A Battlefield, and I threatened divorce if these tapes came out."
-- Tori; KDGE (94.5FM) The Edge Radio Interview, Dallas, TX, 11/4/98
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