Hoochie Woman

The track that applies is ’Hoochie Woman’, and its key line, for me at least, is ’I went to work and the office girls were all burning their poetry’. Amos sips her latte thoughtfully. "I think that when you begin to think you’re liberated, but in fact you’re just an object — completely objectified, an orifice — then you walk into the profane." But what exactly is a hoochie woman? "It’s a scuzz. It’s a woman who has lost any sense of self-respect and conscience. There’s a belief that to get any (...)

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General Info & Credits

Written by Tori Amos

Bösendorfer & vocals: Tori Amos
Drums: Matt Chamberlain
Bass: Jon Evans
Guitars: Mac Aladdin
Background Vocals: London Community Gospel Choir
Hand claps: Matt, Jon, Tori, Alison Evans and Chelsea Laird