Once upon a time I bought a Tori Amos album even though I didn’t really love her, and it became my favorite album of all time.

Once upon a time I bought a Tori Amos album and decided to write an essay for every song on it live on my blog during my first listen.

Eleven years past the former and seven and a half after the latter, today I’ll combine the two to celebrate the eleventh birthday of Tori Amos’s modern-day classic from the choirgirl hotel, which I first heard on a Tuesday eleven years ago today.

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