I had discovered that I had developed a chameleonic mindset when I was younger which observed and took on all the qualities and characteristics I had perceived as "good", I had stitched them together into a seemingly single identity. I realise now I was so far removed from myself and that I had divided my mind so severely that I had completely forgotten myself outside of this mental Frankensteinian creation, constantly flicking between different personalities I had created, like an unknowingly self-created multiple personality disorder. I'm in the process of letting go of everything that isn't me and rediscovering who I once was, getting myself back to me in other words. I should have just been myself all along but even this intense suffering is just a part of the journey and if anything is still a miracle to be able to have experienced. Please look after yourselves people, your mental wellbeing is paramount. May everyone discover inner peace and love. Thank you Tori for your music which pointed me in the right direction when I was so overwhelmingly lost within my creation.

@ml3891

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Lately mom has good days and bad days. On the bad days like today I often listen to this and cry my eyes out but it's comforting and perfect. Thank you, Tori.

@EricMobbs

3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I take care of my folks and when your comment popped up I finally was able to cry. Now I can get back to it and am grateful for the opportunity feel empathy and gratitude. My heart goes out to you and those you love.

This song made my nose tingle like it does just before a sneeze; always the precursor to tears. The piano chords lull me to the bottom of the sea, not to drown, but to reanimate. This is a calm invigoration; a tonic for the soul.

@mariellemaple

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! So well said.

This is beautiful. I wish I had words for Tori’s music. I just feel it in my soul. I wish people I knew could understand. I share her songs and they think I’m just weird.

@jillianjordan172

4 жыл бұрын

You get it because your soul is beautiful.

@macphallic

3 жыл бұрын

Same here! They say “ there he goes again playing Tori Amos” and I’m like “ you’re damn right!”

@drliz6783

3 жыл бұрын

I think what's weird is that most people can't hear what we hear. Although it's refreshing to hear people you wouldn't expect to say they like her music. Justin Timberlake said Little Earthquakes changed his life.

@danasimpson9875

2 жыл бұрын

You are not weird! I listen to this song every morning as a prayer to Jesus Christ 🤣😂

@suzanaandrade2125

2 жыл бұрын

I love Tori. She's so unique and so profound...I just love her ❣

This song takes my breath away, the one and only Tori Amos, no one writes, performs, transcends like she does - a true artistic goddess! 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️

This song Reindeer King is speaking/singing to my soul. I can't stop listening. Thank you deeply, Tori for releasing this beautiful gem. This song is pure essential oil of truth for the universal soul.

Tori's music always comes at a time I need to hear it. It feels so personal, like she is singing it to my soul. Reminding me who I am. Who we are. The layers of this piece of music are mesmerising and magical. Tears of both sadness and hope.

I love Cloud Riders. I love Up The Creek. But I really really love Reindeer King!

@rocioantonellajensen6088

7 жыл бұрын

Tommy Gets Stupid and i love your user 😂

My best friend of 43 years committed suicide after a long struggle with schizophrenia. This song has helped me heal. That part about get you back to you resonates. I had to heal but never completely.

@leannajanebarnes

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry to hear about your dear friend.

@Hadleygirlie

3 жыл бұрын

I completely understand. No words.💔 I am sorry for your loss. I too lost my best friend/sister in September of 2020. I haven't been the same since then.

@user-jb8rx6bf3h

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry 😢 dear

@elizabethhubbard8151

2 жыл бұрын

My best friend also committed suicide and I know I need to live for both of us and tori heals me. She loved tori too. I’m so sorry for your friend. I dated a man with schizophrenia for seven years and he became convinced that I was the enemy and I could not get him to trust me again and I had a nervous breakdown. It is a very sad illness.

@glitterfaerie08

2 жыл бұрын

Bless you 🤍🤍🤍 I fight C PTSD and have fallen into psychosis many times which is similar to schizophrenia. I promise she tried her best to stay...Bless her. It's a terrifying illness 😪 I bet she loved you so much. I hope you still feel her around you...Watch for signs of her saying hello...Blessings,Love and Lught xxx I lost a best friend too in 2013 to suicide,she had ptsd 💔😭 No pain like it 🤍🤍🤍

So typical of Tori... a track that is fuzzy, dreamy, trippy, and one that takes me on journey... an experience in sound, voice, lyrics, vocals & visions... Together with a lot of depth, inspiration, mysticism & mystery that lets each listener have their own interpretation... Thanks Tori for another dream sound!

"Gotta get you back to you"-Tori's hopes of her Mother's mind coming back after suffering a major stroke. There's so much tragedy, love and willful hope in this song. Nothing more pure than the love between a mother and daughter.

@Iridescence93

8 ай бұрын

So heartbreaking for me right now but she's always had a beautiful way to express things.

She could not have wrote this song without the Night of Hunters influence in my humble eyes. Tori's passionate straining vocal, strong musicality from the piano marching through the story and a tsunami of raw passion. One of my favourite Tori songs ever. This song always gives me a lump in my throat... such a emotional beautiful piece of work from the flame haired goddess

this is the Toriest song so far, that's what it's just marvellous!

@TheIZM

7 жыл бұрын

I see NO lies here.

@jimmyblais1502

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! In total love...once again! Ear gasms, galore...

@carlamelissa2827

3 жыл бұрын

Realmente... Qdo ouvi pela primeira vez em 2017, disse: the girl with the piano is back! 😍

@missyflutter5562

3 жыл бұрын

My favourite

@jorgefers

3 жыл бұрын

Totally!!!

Sublime, Mesmerizing, transcending... I will definatelly have to search for more words on vocabulary and come back again. Thank you for this experience :)

@johndoran1754

6 жыл бұрын

Perfect

@judahlevine3104

5 жыл бұрын

Mind Blowing... Pure genius.

@photodevries7785

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely Mensa She was grated a full scalership at the age of 6 to the Peabody school of music..............

This song is going to be great to listen to with headphones on during a cold windy day.

@kellyroth8386

7 жыл бұрын

i was thinking the same thing, that it reminded me of a certain in winter in my life. nostalgic.

@arianablankenship7712

7 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly. I really love her Midwinter Graces album around the holiday times.. this will be a good song to add to that playlist.

@kellyroth8386

7 жыл бұрын

omg that album is exactly the music i was thinking of during that time of my life i mentioned above.

@junnosuke_iijima

7 жыл бұрын

I am looking forward to listening to Reindeer King particularly in winter time, too. Didn't buy Midwinter when it first came out but I am glad I did. Every song is a treat. I also remember buying Pele on the release day in the UK. It was snowing. That's when I first heard Horses....

@arianablankenship7712

7 жыл бұрын

Y'all just reminded me how much I love fellow Tori fans 😁

Wonderful song, classic Tori.

This song took me to the galaxy and back. Absolutely beautiful. All of sudden, my world just shut down, and her world slowly forming around me. What a great experience.

Reindeer King reminds me a lot of Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow album. (She talked about how Kate is capable of creating sonic paintings for listeners to walk into in Kate Bush's documentary and now she has finally been able to do the same, in a very long time) It is patient, wise, mysterious and haunting. Although it is 7 minutes long, not a single second feels superfluous, and the string arrangement helps to add a lugubrious yet majestic undertone to it. It contains the sort of wisdom that only an older woman can conjure up. It's as if the red-haired fairy has transformed into a tribal shaman.

@denitsa8

7 жыл бұрын

Woderful words! Especially about the trasformation of Tori from the Fairy into the Shaman who could 'hold space' for healing for all of us! Hope she gets to read your words!

@templocal

7 жыл бұрын

The song reminded me of Kate Bush, indeed. I was never really impressed by her post-Scarlet work (except for the instrumental version of Night Of Hunters and some separate songs), but this time her work sounds more experimental and inspired. Kind of like the progressive side of Kate Bush. I hope the entire album is good.

@orfeocookie

6 жыл бұрын

I definitely connect this with "Snowflake", in particular, from that album. It's the ability to create a specific atmosphere. And one of the things that's really struck me about the first 3 songs from Native Invader is that they've all had a strong sense of their own atmosphere.

@huitzil6515

5 жыл бұрын

yes, I was just thinking 50 words for Snow. .the song with Elton John. .

@queerchoreography54

5 жыл бұрын

I have always loved Kate more than her, but here, she equals anything Kate has ever done, and that’s saying A LOT coming from the ultimate Kate Bush fan. I would say this equals Under The Ivy, it’s tenderness,😢

Seven minutes of transcendance and the continuation is silence full of my grateful heartbeat! Thank you, Tori!

This is...on another level. Absolutely stunning. :'(

@dawnmariemartinsoncordes1652

6 жыл бұрын

her music has always amazed me.

@raggedblossom508

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Beekeeper Yes. I was stuck for words to respond to this song, but your comment comes closest.

This is the most Tori Amos one out of the 3 songs we have so far.

There’s no way that artists aren’t doctors. Thank you, Tori, for your healing abilities. 💙✨🤍

Who needs church when there is Tori. Thank you for sharing your gift God has given you

tori is back...... enough said

@sanskritecho

7 жыл бұрын

yes!

@breathsaverable

6 жыл бұрын

Amen to that!

@writetovagelis1975

6 жыл бұрын

That was my first thought. Let's hear the whole album cause i really miss That Tori..

@Spinny78

6 жыл бұрын

in my mind's eye, she never left.

@nauticalnun407

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Walsh about time!

One of my favourite Tori tracks ever, the hauntingly beautiful hurting vocal, the powerful yet aching piano chords, and some of her most beautiful lyrics ever. I cry every time I listen to this.

It's been a year since this came out now. I can honestly say this song means so much more to me now than even when I started crying when she played it live. For a while I was thinking she couldn't capture emotion like the pre 2010 era but this song had to grow on me to get there. I'll always buy her albums forever until the end.

The soul needed to hear this song. In a time where She is forgotten, it is good to know there is still a person on the planet who speaks for Her and to Her. Thank you Tori. Please keep speaking for Her. The soul is what brings the energy of aliveness to us in a time when so much destruction and decay abound.

I've listened to Cloud Riders a lot because it has a unique sound to it & Up the Creek is equally great. It isn't often that I don't initially respond to a song that Tori has made, and even then it usually grows on me over time. Reindeer King is one of those songs for me -- I think it's something that I have to listen to more to be able to appreciate. I'm sure by the time the full album is released I'll enjoy it just as much as the others.

Tears. Love how "YOU" is written over all of the exceptional beauty that is our Earth. We are that. They are us.

@rickysherwin6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Sandi, how are you doing and how is the weather with you

@SandiSiegel

2 жыл бұрын

@@rickysherwin6734 winter is coming thankfully since a wildfire nearly did our home in! Love to you

@rickysherwin6734

2 жыл бұрын

@@SandiSiegel ok, I'm glad to hear from you Sandi, how is your day going and I would like to keep talking to you

Tori back in form, I love this song. It lifts my spririt and caresses my heart tenderly. Cant stop listening to it, thank you Tori. Thank you very much!

@photodevries7785

4 жыл бұрын

It’s about her mom had a stroke

Reindeer King reminds me of early Tori.

This is the best track on the album hands down!

Transmogrification: The Art of Transforming from one state to another, as if by Magic. That's what this song is for me: it hovers between the Reral and Imagined, and not even a glacier can hold it back. THIS is the Tori I grew up with and adored (and still do) as a teen getting into his 20s, and looked to for strength at times when everything was so horribly uncertain. The glorious Lady is at her prime in this song, and I ache for more! Never EVER stop, dearest Tori - I love you!

It is so beautiful to know that Winter still believes. I hear you Sister Tori. You are truly one of the most natural wonders of this world. All of us are blessed by your expression that shines out of your crystal heart for all of our ears to hear.

@rickysherwin6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Jennifer, how are you doing

This song is the breath of life. Seriously, it's life changing. Thank you, Tori.

Dear Tori i am so happy that you share this amazing meaningful healing music with us. Its resonating so much and inspires me to keep the track. As a female musician its sometimes such a challenge but what is the opposite of destruction...creation...love...listening. Thank you

This is a soul-reacher Tori. Thank you. ♡

My daughters, my grandchildren.... I miss them so this time of year. I wish they hadn't been taken from this world. This song is so precious to me.

This was moving, and beautiful. Thank you, Tori

@ninanile

7 жыл бұрын

Josie Vidal, agreed.

I listen to this song every morning. The reindeer king is Jesus, Tori at her very finest. She gives back to her avid fans so gracious, with honest lyrics and divine undertones. Love you Tori.

Now this is the kind of music I want from Tori! I don't know what was going on with Cloud Riders but I love this.

So many amazing tracks on this album! It's unbelievable how she continues to make such incredible music after all this time. So many artists peak and decline. She somehow keeps suprising and delighting me with her efforts.

Her music tells everything I should say to my beloved ones... I couldn't know we have so little time to spend together. Thank you, Tori Amos!

I will always love Tori Amos.. A wise and beautiful soul

When she sings "to the moons of Jupiter" my heart melts.. that woman has a way of saying the word Jupiter and its suddenly fragile yet sensual...

@liannecat

Ай бұрын

This is the exact point my eyes welled up❤

No matter how crappy I feel at times this sirens voice chases & calms any torment in ANYONES soul.She's why I believe in Angel's.

It's amazing how the Muses use Tori to convey such amazing songs! I moves me to the core of my being and the video images are as moving.

Cannot. Stop. Listening.

@jillianjordan172

4 жыл бұрын

I’ve been a fan since 1996, and I come back because her voice sounds like home. Always knew her later stuff would make more sense as I got older...this is music that comes from a wise woman. The masses will not always get that and I’m okay with that now. Always was puzzled by how underrated she was, but she’s cherished by those who get it. That’s enough. Forever Ears With Feet, friends.

Some years later I can remember going through Harvey listening to this beautiful masterpiece. Now today I'm miles away from the storm which is paving her way towards my hometown. Distant from my family praying for their protection. Here I am years later listening to her again.

What a beautiful piece of music. Touching my soul. And the piano

Everything of Tori Amos is wonderful!!

Possibly the most beautiful Tori Amos song......

This song sends my mind running back to the woods where it's calm, safe and beautiful. Classic Tori 😌🌱🌿💚

Apart from adoring the album as a whole, this song has come to me at such an important time in my life, is has actually healed me after a difficult few years of loss and grief. I cannot thank Tori enough for creating such a beautiful message and apart from now knowing how to get back to me, has inspired me to start writing music again. Indebted my darling beautiful talented Tori. X

Ethereal, beautiful, otherworldy....The very best Tori song for ages.

So relaxing and such beautiful lyrics...so talented..love this womans voice

This song seems like there are two stories being told about "ourselves" Ones bout a darker and lost being yet still pure being . We need to find ourselves a better place; Away from the pain of hate , war , loss, and all that makes us evil. The second story is a Nature story that unseen but not quite seen all the time. The mention of the Reindeer King being is the ruler of calm and peace he is trying to unify the forces of all these simple things we take for granted.

This is so beautiful and moving. Love you Tori

Music is an art. This is more art than music. Stunningly beautiful👌

This is the one of the best songs Tori's ever made!

I find myself humming this song to myself, aimlessly. That is how good this song is

beautiful, made me cry.

one of these favorites

She outdid herself with this one,

Absolutely my favorite song among the new releases!

OMG!!! Tori your back oh dear God I missed you!!!

Congrats to Tori for reaching #9 on the album charts!

My mother and us used to sing a song at our birthdays and of course we sung it to her too, may the Dear (Deer) Lord bless you.

So beautiful and soul touching

@rickysherwin6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there, how are you doing and how is the weather with you

I find all of Tori’s works move or motivate in some way..even the daft ditties often have an effect. But her ability to reduce me into mind melting moments of sheer wonderment also pop up from time to time. Cloud On My Tongue, Tear In Your Hand ( who remembers that incredible lyric ‘maybe she’s just pieces of me you’ve never seen’? ...mesmerising, desperate), Gold Dust ( ...’how did it go so fast, we’ll say as we are looking back. And then we’ll understand....we held gold dust in our hands...’) Just the way this is phrased the last time towards the end of the song is up there with the best ever written by anyone. 1000 Oceans is heart-breaking from start to finish, so much so I will repeat myself, 1000 Oceans is heart-breaking from start to finish! Her most moving cover, for me, is Zepp’s ‘Thank You’. Or how about ‘Baker, Baker’? Another one that on the surface seems a pretty song but dig deeper and you’ll see it’s emoting in so many ways it’s tragic! Onto the most recent album, Native Invader. No one seems to mention Breakaway. So, I’m mentioning that as up there. It’s beautiful both lyrically and musically. Anyway, after Gold Dust, my favourite, I never thought Tori would tear me to pieces ever again. Then along comes this immense, seemingly tame (on first listen) ‘Reindeer King’...and after only a few listens I was whisked away to the local rehab centre for the abandoned and lovelorn. I’m still here, destroyed and picking at cushions 24/7. I try not to listen to it anymore because I think it could possibly kill me. So, in the meantime, if you see Neil......

Loving the songs from this album more and more!

@rickysherwin6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Andrea, how are you doing and how is the weather with you

Magical. Her music take me from my pain... Thank you tori. 💗

music is one thing but Tori makes magic with music. She is one of a kind

❤️❤️❤️❤️ I love you Tori and you music.. you can never do wrong in my opinion ❤️❤️

This is my favorite Tori song. I've been a fan since YCTR. This is magic to me. I wish she performed it more.

I can’t wait to see her tomorrow. I just LOVE this song, so spiritual

HYPNOTIZING SONG...can't wait to listen to it again and again!!!!!

Her music is soul touching. Like no other... thanks for this when I need to get in touch with the deepness of my soul.

I love this masterpiece!!!

This past year has been very chaotic. Before the 2016 election, I never considered myself cynical. After the election, I couldn't shake the feeling that so many people hate me for who I am: Asian, son of immigrants, gay, etc. I used to want to see only the best in people. And now, I have days when I feel like I hate everyone. This song is very healing. Thank you, Tori.

@marcodambrosio4711

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, don't feel hated just because the other candidate won an election. Sometimes people are shit, sometimes hating is a good thing. There is no such thing as "only good", and I think it's better to let ouselves experience all emotions we, as humans, are capable to feel. But cut the victimist bs of "omg Trump won everybody hates me!"

@orangerichard56

6 жыл бұрын

just be thankful that trump isnt as bad as some of his supporters.

@Vinkalu21

6 жыл бұрын

ebromero2....please. You hold a golden ticket. If you are gay, you practically sit on a throne. If anyone picks on you because you’re gay, they will have a lynch mob sent out after them. This isn’t the 50s. Gays are golden gods in this era. You are almost untouchable. If you think you are oppressed because you’re gay, that’s because you were brainwashed by the media to believe in fiction...a false narrative that doesn’t exist in the real world. If you are feeling like a victim, it’s because you fed into the bullshit narrative d’jour. Try being white, of European descent, straight, and Christian. If you say anything with pride in your heritage or culture, you are automatically labelled as a white supremacist, and told to check your privilege. If you are any of these (European Caucasian, heterosexual, Christian) and male, you are prime enemy number 1. It is almost encouraged by social/mainstream media to hate them. That is the current popular narrative. Guess what. It’s all bullshit. The whole “Trump is Hitler and everyone who voted for him is a Nazi/white supremacist” is bullshit. A lot of people who felt they were screwed over with economical situations, due to Obama’s administration, didn’t want to go the way of Hillary, which would have continued it. Then there were people that hated Hillary, because they saw her corruption and fakeness. And they would rather vote for a complete dufus like Trump than a crazy corrupt lobbyist loving, insider,/establishment politician like Hillary. And they voted for Trump, not because they liked him, but simply because he wasn’t Hillary. Also, they voted for him because they hated all the politically correct rhetoric....they hated identity politics and false narratives and they voted Trump in spite of it all. And then there is the media that milks the small SMALL percentage of assholes and makes it sound like half of Americans are racist, hateful nazis. I assure you, they are not. Walk up to most people and they are very reasonable and accepting and down to earth. The media exaggerates and magnifies any little story that displays “mean world” syndrome. In other words, don’t believe the world is the way it is portrayed by social media, the news, or Hollywood/mainstream media. it is not. Step into the real world. Walk around town. Talk to strangers. You’ll find that most will be very accommodating, kind, down to earth. Even people that don’t agree with you on many issues will still treat you with respect, so long as you are respectful. It’s all about reciprocity and finding common ground. It’s not about identity politics. I don’t care what colour you are, what gender you are, what sexual preference you have, what ethnic background you are. It’s all about character and principles.it’s about finding common ground. If you act disrespectful and go looking for a fight, you will find one. If you go into a place, thinking like a victim and looking for a villain, you will be a victim and you will find your villain. Most people just want to be left alone and live their lives. If you start pointing fingers at them and blaming them and insinuating that they are bad, they will get pissed and resentful and even become hostile. And that is 2017 in a nutshell. Pandering and blaming. It is a play on emotions.

@marcodambrosio4711

6 жыл бұрын

Vinka Lu best comment ever!

@ellem686

6 жыл бұрын

ebromero2 liberals are the ones full of hatred.

Tori

Her songs are always amazing and sensitive to my heart 💜

The most beautiful lyric video I’ve ever seen!

I love this song (and album) so much and I can't believe it's turning 3 this yr! Tori has to outdo this on her next album~

Thank You, Dear Tori.... Music is the Voice of the Soul and the "messages" can be understood and stir emotions at a very deep, mystical and esoteric level.... Much Love and Blessings🧙‍♂️☯♾💙💎🌌

also the images..perfect

Heart wrenching in its beauty and sadness, crystalline! xx

Masterpiece!!!!!

We Got Are Tori , Under The Pink after Geraldine, I knew it .. Got that Zeppelin Vibe Mum.. We Luvz Ya

speechless.the reindeer king speaks it all.....

It reminds me of beautiful oyster and the first tori! Well done !

great piece of work for real so much passion

This is the call to Reanimate! Jaclyn Karp below truly said it best! I can't wait for the full album, so far everything I've heard is sonic manna - nothing less from the high priestess of pop, rock and piano!

First ugly face cry in at least 4 years because of this song. She really struck an emotional chord with this one!

This is so beautiful. She's amazing.

This is my favorite song from Native Invader 😍💕

Wow! Just Wow and lovely divinity...

@rickysherwin6734

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Lisa, how are you doing and how is the weather with you

That was an amazing redo. Breathtaking.

Song of the year, for me.

Tremendous. Thank you.