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I: When you take the difference to popular music, you and Madonna are both raisin girls, whereas you both have not much in common. I mean, I would imagine your coffee table book about sex would be more original and subtle than hers...
T: (laughs) You know what I thought of that book? Madonna never seemed to enjoy herself much on any page of that book. Good sex would give you a big happy smile on the face, wouldn't you think? But it was all so serious with her, so cold, so calculated. Okay, there were some daring pictures in it, when you define daring as something with handcuffs and pierced nipples...(laughs). But I think daring would be: photo's on which you would see lust or enjoyment, on which you can read from someone's face a just-had-an-orgasm-and-already-craving-for-the-next-one expression. Madonna doesn't understand the dripping mango concept.
I: The what?
T: The dripping mango concept. (She takes an orange - a mango can't be found easily - and bites in it repeatedly, until the juice drips over her chin and throat.) Madonna is like the shadow side of the Virgin Maria, and as such I appreciate her. Christian bred girls still get that totally a-sexual picture of Maria. Okay, Maria had a child with Joseph, but it's never mentioned that she enjoyed the deed, or if she had pleasure from whatever form of sex. No dripping mango's in the bible. (laughs) The importance of Madonna is that she used her energy to sexualize it, that she showed her fans they could also see themselves like that - like sexual beings. I only fear that Madonna has gotten so addicted to the commotion she caused in the outside world, that she has been scandalized her inner self, and has no more pleasure out of it anymore. Only pride and power and a sort of sense of superiority, but no pleasure. She should eat more mango's...Gee, now I want one myself...
-- Tori; Nieuwe Revu, Feb 1994
"Madonna is such a great business woman that it staggers me sometimes. Will she find the next Miles Davis? I don't know. But she has a savvy for what is commercial."
-- Tori; Raygun, Dec 96/Jan 97
The spell is broken when Madonna's Frozen comes on the radio. "I love this song!" Amos squeals. "It makes me want to..." Amos trills an operatic version of Madonna's spiritual opus, then clamps a hand over her mouth as Saturday-afternoon shoppers turn their heads her way.
-- Tori; Rolling Stone Magazine, Jun 25, 1998
I: You've done a few covers in your day. Would you ever do a Madonna song?
T: I did do a cover of Like a Virgin that has never left the studio.
I: Tori, we need to be hearing that!
T: It's never gonna happen.
I: Ever?
T: Ever.
-- Tori; Rolling Stone Magazine, Sep 30, 1999
Q: What your favourite Madonna song?
T: I really think Papa Don't Preach is great. I love that. And Like a Prayer (sings) I'm down on my knees/you know I'll take you there. I love Like a Prayer, that's my favourite.
-- Tori; Attitude Magazine, Sep 2001
I: In America people are talking about the "Alpha Male"; the prototype of the superman which all men like to compare themselves to. Who is the Alpha Male in pop music and why didn't you recapture any of his songs for the women?
T: K.D. Lang. Is that a correct answer? (laughs) Where is the Alpha Female by the way? That's Madonna of course. It's predictable, and I'm not really a fan, but she's a hunter, a mother, a carreer-woman, a leader, an anarchist, a marketing project and mouthpiece at the time. If only because she exists as a counterbalance against all those Alpha Males. We should pay honour to her as female artists.
-- Tori; Samsonic Magazine, Sep/Oct 2001
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