Tori Amos - Talula (The Tornado Mix)

What this video is

Released in May 1996 at the commercial peak of alternative female singer-songwriter visibility on MTV, 'Talula (The Tornado Mix)' bridges Tori Amos's avant-garde art-pop identity with mid-90s dance-remix culture via producer BT. The song's placement in the blockbuster film Twister gave it rare mainstream crossover reach while the video preserved Amos's idiosyncratic theatrical aesthetic. The Boys for Pele album…

Why it matters

Represents a key moment of mid-90s art-pop crossover: a critically respected alternative artist's work filtered through dance-remix production (BT) for mainstream single viability without sacrificing visual auteurism. Demonstrates how Atlantic Records positioned Amos for dual alternative/pop chart…

The director

American music video director who began his career in the late 1980s, founding San Francisco-based Fire Ball Films. He worked on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) as a lighting camera assistant. Kohr later co-founded Bob Industries in Santa Monica. He is…