2. Tori's doing a "musical" as her next project? Same reaction from me:

3. I've got to say, I'm so amazed that Sarah fans still come into a Tori thread on a Sarah board and say they've never heard Tori before, but they might check her out.
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If you like Sarah, then Tori is THE NEXT ARTIST you should have investigated 10 mins after you first discovered Sarah.

I'm not saying they're the same, just that fans of one of them almost always find at least something to like from the other too. Plus, they are from the same era that we often talk about - they both hit their stride career-wise in the mid 1990s, and had a real golden period back then. If you lived through that time, you have no excuse not to know a bit about both of them :> I mean owning a copy of "Under The Pink" has got to be practically a pre-requisite for being on this board, no?


As for what Tori is doing these days though, well that's a different story. So if you're new to her, then ignore this part and concentrate on her older stuff from the 1990s. Sarah's Laws Of Illusion has confirmed one thing for me - Sarah is still closer artistically now, to the Sarah I first fell in love with. On the other hand, I think Tori has drifted away in recent albums and become too watered down - a pale facsimile of the energetic flame-haired goddess of 1992 - 2000. Sparse arrangements and simple songs, and truly annoying artwork (to me) of her just posing around with "kooky" objects, all dolled up to within an inch of her life. You only need to look at her videos. Once they were full of energy with Tori looking like the real girl she always was. Now though, they're more like art pieces of Tori looking like a bit of a fragile mannequin. I guess she's getting older, and isn't the energetic 20-something she once was, but dammit I wish she wouldn't give in so easily...

Although, I must admit I didn't buy the Xmas album. And some people seemed to say that was a bit better than the last 'proper' album of new songs - Abnormally Attracted To Sin (which was a very disappointing album overall, to me).
Rob.