In a little more than a month, '90s legend Tori Amos will release her new album In Times Of Dragons, and we've already heard first single "Stronger Together," a duet with her daughter Tash. Now, Amos is doing the next obvious thing: She's sharing a song about the alternate-reality version of herself who married an evil billionaire "lizard demon" many years ago.
This particular lizard-demon figure is apparently central to the mythology of In Times Of Dragons. On "Shush," he says things like, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible" while telling Amos that her lips are only good for one thing: "He calls me his Cassandra and says, 'cause no one will believe your prophecies.'" It's a florid, atmospheric jam that calls back to Amos' classic "Silent All These Years." Here's what Amos says about it:
He represents what we’re dealing with right now. He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don’t think you and I should vote. He’s trying to develop the kind of feudal system we had hundreds of years ago. But it doesn’t look like it once did. We don’t look like we’re in the trenches, in the muck. We have all the cool, digital devices now. So it looks different. But it has the same philosophy.
I have to know: Which billionaire tried to marry Tori Amos in the '90s? It had to be one of them, right? The "Shush" character talks like Peter Thiel, and he doesn't seem like a prime suspect here, but I bet they all talk like that. Listen below.
In Times Of Dragons is out 5/1 via Universal/Fontana.
