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We went looking for dragons.

We found them. We followed them. We argued about them. And now we’re finally ready to talk about what the hell just happened.

On this episode of Introverted But Willing to Discuss Tori Amos, we’re wrapping up the In Times of Dragons tour– talking about the songs, the setlists, the surprises, the transcendent moments, and the occasional decision that left us with… some thoughts.

What made this tour so remarkable was Tori’s refusal to simply revisit the past. She reimagined it.

Night after night, songs we’ve lived with for years were given new shapes, new textures, and entirely new emotional dimensions. Familiar became unfamiliar. Songs we thought we knew inside and out suddenly had somewhere else to go.

And a huge part of that transformation came from Liv Gibson, Deni Hlavinka, and Hadley Kennary. These three extraordinary voices brought new color and dimension to the songbook. 

The Angel Witches didn’t simply add harmonies. They became part of the architecture of these performances, making songs we’ve known for decades feel newer and more vivid than we ever imagined.

They became an intrinsic part of this chapter of the Tori Amos songbook and now, inevitably, part of the mythology. And then there was everything happening beyond the stage. Because the other great gift of a Tori tour is the people.

The Tori community showed up in force. Strangers became seat mates, seat mates became friends, online friendships became real-life reunions. Many of these relationships go back over 30 years. We shared meals, rides, theories, memories, hugs, and, frankly, an unreasonable number of wildly divergent opinions.

That human connection is part of what makes this music matter. And it made these shows better.

So now we’re taking one last look at In Times of Dragons: the reinvention, the revelations, the voices that helped reshape the songs, and the people who made the experience bigger than any one night in any one theater.

The tour is over. But if there’s one thing Tori has taught us, it’s that a song is never finished just because we think we know it.

Apparently, neither are we.

Shush serpent tongue 🐍 at 8:15-8:25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7JrEfDuMBM&t=788s