Tossed Out Tori Amos Fan: Diva, Please!

106. Team Tori just wants some ass. GROSS!!!

Posted at 10:07AM on Dec 24th 2007 by T

107. I for one think its great that she threw them out. you pay good money to see a concert and IDIOTS talk thru it the whole time, if you want to talk go to a bar If you want to see a concert SHUT UP AND LISTEN! I wish more stars would do that. There is nothing worse than going to see your favorite performer whoever that may be and having some stupid people carrying on a full scale conversation. So I say KUDOS to Tori Amos for respecting the rest of the paying crowd.

Posted at 10:11AM on Dec 24th 2007 by dan

108. With a little common sense, etiquette, manners, and respect - I would bet that Monique would have seen the entire show.

Quit defending offensive, inappropriate, and rude behavior. Tori's reaction was a direct effect of Monique's and her friend's behavior. Monique and her friend were deserving in that situation and Tori didn't just stand up for herself by giving it back, she was standing up for her audience. It's obvious by the cheers. If the audience didn't agree with Tori's reaction to their behavior, I'm sure we wouldn't have heard any cheering at all, but more of a silence from the shock of it, trying to figure out where that reaction came from - and I'm sure we would have seen a few more people leave than just those two.

I completely understand Tori's frustration and I may have done the same thing if I were in her place. It's frustrating. Some audience members think the show is about them. It's enraging that they're ruining what we're there to see. This could be anything - Tori Amos, a speech, films, plays and musicals. If you're there in the audience, be the audience. If you have other things to do, stay the ____ home! (See, there's that rage.) But seriously, why are you there? Not only do you need to respect the performer/performance/or whatever, you need to respect the other people that make up the audience. My guess is they're not interested in you or you'd be on their t-shirt.

I like Tori and I've followed her career somewhat since Little Earthquakes, been to a few concerts - and truly - this only made me like her more. It has nothing to do with her use of the F-word towards these girls. I'm not all into that and she could have chosen another, but I understand that came out of frustration. I like her more 'cause she demanded respect in a culture that is in great need of improving. The lack of etiquette, manners, and respect in the public can almost be beyond belief sometimes. And when it's defended, like these backers of Monique, that's mind-blowing. Monique was bluntly asked to leave for a reason. It's unfortunate that's the kind of tactics it takes to get through to some people.

For those of you that aren't fans of Tori, that's normal 'cause we all have different tastes and that's good. I could care less if you hated her with all your heart. She's a neat, unique person and I wish I had some of her talent. I've yet though, including this video, seen any evidence of her behaving like a Diva. And if you want to believe that she's some total, egotistical bitch from this tiny clip, that's a bit absurd. How often do you see people react like that for no reason? You reap what you sew and these two girls got it pretty instantly. Now for Tori's reaping, if she loses "fans" based on this, I don't think they really understood her in the first place and I'm sure her concerts from now on will be a much more pleasant experience without these kinds of fans there.

Posted at 12:49PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Keep Kicking These People Out

109. Why the hell shouldn't Tori Amos tell people to shut up at her own concert? It's rude to talk during a concert! Apparently the younger generation has not been taught manners, so they think they can do whatever they want and they get all offended when their bad behavior is pointed out. When I was a child, I was taken to the symphony by my parents and NO ONE talked! The ushers would even pass out cough drops during intermission so that people would not cough during the musical performance. Just because Tori Amos plays rock 'n' roll rather than classical does not mean that her audience has the right to be noisy during her performance! Maybe if more performers threw their fans out when they make noise DURING the songs, people would get a clue and behave better.

Posted at 6:10PM on Jan 8th 2008 by music & manners

110. Yay Tori!!!! There is nothing more annoying than loud mouth bitches at a Tori show. It happens all the time...either talking through the show or (maybe worse) SINGING through the show. Front row tickets are very Precious Things :-) and I'm glad Tori kicked them out. I'm sure had they not been distracting to the audience and to her (the performer) then it wouldn't have happened. Too bad she couldn't kick out the bitch who was sitting in front of me at the Denver show.

Posted at 1:53PM on Dec 24th 2007 by D

111.
Tori Amos is one of the greatest singer-songwriters of our time. Anyone who thinks she is a pompous star is simply just ignorant. The amount of money this woman has raised for rape victims, homeless children and abused children over the years is astounding. If she wants to kick out some disrespectful pompous morons from her show - by all means Tori - do it.

THOSE GIRLS LOST THEIR RIGHT TO BE THERE B/C THEY WERE DRUNK, CHATTY, DISRESPECTFUL IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!

TORI AMOS KICKS ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:17PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Mambo2

112. Way to go, Tori. Don't stand for this. Those two got what they deserved. I would have done the same thing.

Posted at 2:16PM on Dec 24th 2007 by TS

113. Anti-Tori here!! Bitch! It may be a privilege to get front row but if I pay for the ticket I'll talk if I want to.

Posted at 5:25PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Chana

114. I am an American, but this vid is a prime example of 'the ugly American.'

Posted at 4:26PM on Dec 24th 2007 by *Wince*

115. This fan should have learned in grade school to not talk during assemblies or concerts or class-- it has to do with her impinging on the enjoyment of other guests and showing Amos (not to mention everyone around this fan) respect. Everyone is like that these days; at a movie last night, teens were on their phones texting or talking. At the Lion King production, people answered their cell phones (adults that were supposed to know better). It is just plain rude. Amos had the right to call her out on it. If more people were like Amos, maybe this society would start being polite again.

Posted at 1:06AM on Dec 25th 2007 by Maryn

116. If I pay to see a concert, show or movie, and the other patrons of that concert are loud or anoying enough to effect the performer! then they deserve to get the the hell kicked out. If you can't keep quiet stick to watching DVDs.

Tori can decide to sit quietly and say nothing, ask them to politely leave or even shout at them. It's her show, it's her character it's her perogative.

If you don't like it. Write music, get fans, put on your own show and do it your way.

Brett

Posted at 8:16PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Brett Watson

117. Okay, I watched the video, and while I do think that Tori should have used a different method of ejecting the girls from her show than cussing them out, I also think that Monique is making this stuff up about her being the perfectly-behaved audience member. If Monique was telling the truth:
#1. The audience wouldn't have been cheering so much over mistreatment of a fan. There's obviously a reason they were GLAD she was being forced to leave.
#2. There wouldn't be so many people on here saying that they were at the concert (or know someone else who was) and saying that Monique and her friends WERE being disruptive.
#3. If the girls were talking/whispering as quietly as Monique would have us believe, there's absolutely NO way Tori would have heard them from the stage, even though they were in the front row.

Obviously, Monique was humiliated in front of a large group of people, but she doesn't want to own up to any wrongdoing, so in order to get back at Tori, she writes this vicious, mostly fabricated story. How sad and childish. Does anyone know if this girl is still in high school or what? Because that's the way teenagers act. "Boy, is SHE ever gonna be sorry for kicking ME out of her show when I get through with her! I'll turn people against her, that'll REALLY show her! Yeah!" *Rolls my eyes* Whining about her rights being taken away was just as pathetic because the other audience members had just as much of a right to be able to enjoy the show they paid to hear without someone else interrupting.

And those of you who are saying that you should be able to do whatever you want just because you paid for the ticket have obviously never been in a university lecture where the professor kicks you out of class for talking. You're paying their salary, but they can still kick you out for disrupting everyone else who also paid and AREN'T bothering other people. Tori was just doing the same thing. The girls' behavior apparently warranted being kicked out. Tori chose to honor the hundreds of other fans who also paid to hear the show (and NOT to hear those gabbing girls), so good for her. If she loses fans for choosing respectful fans over a pair of nasty, vindictive little teenage bitches, then perhaps these aren't really "fans" she needs in the first place.

And no, I am not a Tori Amos fan. I don't even listen to any of her music. I'm just disgusted that this "Monique" person is telling lies and trying to ruin someone's career out of pure spite for something that was obviously her own damn fault to begin with.

Posted at 10:32PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Anonymous

118. 113. Anti-Tori here!! Bitch! It may be a privilege to get front row but if I pay for the ticket I'll talk if I want to.

Posted at 5:25PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Chana

yes, and I am sure you could care less about the people sitting next to you or behind you that paid fo their tickets and have to listen to you conversation instead of hearing the show they paid for. If You try doing that with me, Then you had better be prepared to pay full face value for my tickets on the spot.
You have no manners.

Posted at 12:12AM on Dec 25th 2007 by Erica

119. Tori has a huge and loyal fan base for more than 14 years now. Most of her fans go to her shows to see and hear her perform, not some nitwit teenager on a phone in the front row.
Way to go Tori!

Posted at 12:32AM on Dec 25th 2007 by Tanya

120. Clearly Monique is lacking a proper education if she truly believes her First Amendment rights were violated.
Poor sad little uneducated cretan.

Posted at 12:10AM on Dec 25th 2007 by Wow