Desire Avenue

Three more tracks have leaked - 'Secret Spell', 'Dark Side of the Sun' and 'Fat Slut'. There's a lot of very tedious in-fighting going on between various Tori forums at the moment about who's got them and who's allowed to have them and blah blah blah, but if anyone comes across them please let us know.

Speaking as someone who once suffered an eating disorder, I'm rather concerned. Something is very wrong here.

These pictures were taken today at a promo live performance for a Dutch radio station.

wow. she looks really, really bad

I mean .... that is NOT 'getting in shape for a tour'. She's quite clearly very underweight. The lollipop effect (head looks too big for her neck), the way her face seems to have changed shape, the fact that her arms appear the same width from top to bottom. Classic. She looks ill. That is not her normal healthy size.

Poor T. She keeps talking about how sexy and great she feels since she got into her 40s, but I think it's hit her really hard emotionally. She seems obsessed with trying to look like a teenager.

She does look underweight (and undernourished )doesn't she?
She's starting to make Twiggy look like Dolly Parton in comparison!

Tori live on Dutch radio, 14 April 2007 mp3s

http://www.monsieurcannibale.com/toriamos.html

Such lovely performances, and a great way to hear new tracks for the first time.

'Beauty of Speed' was my favourite of the solo performances and now I have the studio version, I am completely in love. I really wasn't expecting anything on this album to give me that feeling, I'm shocked at how much this song has affected me already. The words have a lot to do with that, they just resonate with me for personal reasons right now, but musically I love the arrangement. She CAN do really good pop, when she wants.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fDcCmffB5CQ

i'm shocked, disgusted, and amused all at once.

aermancer wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=fDcCmffB5CQ

i'm shocked, disgusted, and amused all at once.

horrible, just horrible.

i got nothing more to say

wow, well that sucks, if that is the video then i am ashamed for her

I never have been overly keen on Tori's videos and this one doesn't do much for me either. But I don't find it 'disgusting' or 'horrible' as such, just rather uninteresting........a bit like the song really.

I liked the vids she made for 'Silent All these Years' , 'China' and ''Spark' but thats about it.

I love the 'Big Wheel' video, it's hilarious.

I'm not young so I don't know about these things, but a lot of people are saying that this video is very hip as regards the whole viral promotion thing, using the internet to spread the word which is apparently how most young people these days get their information about music. It's pointless now for Tori or her record company to spend huge amounts of money making a 'proper' video for showing on TV, because she's not an artist who gets shown on TV. The internet - youtube etc - is where she'll get her new music noticed, and the promo clip is directed at that medium.

I just think it's incredibly camp and funny, and it's good to see Tori's sense of humour back with a bang. She's been so serious and po-faced these past few years. I also think it's partly meant to convey the DOLL concept - the characters move like dolls in this clip, they're not real women. They have certain 'poses' and that's it, that's all they do. I think it's quite clever.

Tori should always look like Clyde. she looks gorgeous done up like that.

my other favorite is Isabel because she's hilarious looking.

I've just utterly lost my interest in her. I'm not interested in her new album in the slightest anymore and have no intention of buying it. Shame really, but I think her music and my tastes have move in different directions. I think the video is a disgrace.

d.a.walker wrote:I've just utterly lost my interest in her. I'm not interested in her new album in the slightest anymore and have no intention of buying it.

It's going to be interesting to see how many other fans lose interest and how that'll impact on sales as I havn't yet seen or heard anything that makes me think that what Tori is doing now is going to attract new followers.