"Professional Widow" is a 1996 song written by singer-songwriterTori Amos. It is a harpsichord-driven rock dirge and was included on her 1996 album Boys for Pele. The eponymous "professional widow" is widely rumoured to be Courtney Love, former wife of Kurt Cobain, whom Trent Reznor blames for the destruction of the friendship (whatever its extent) between himself and Amos.
In 1999, Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails released a single called "Starfuckers, Inc.", with "Starfucker" being a word that appears in "Professional Widow".
Lyrically the song borrows directly from the short story "The Sphinx" by Edgar Allan Poe. Specifically the lyric "what is termed a landslide of principal proportion" is taken from the line "what is termed a land-slide, of the principal portion of its trees"; and the lyric "prism perfect" from the line "in shape a perfect prism."
It was remixed by house music producer Armand van Helden (marketed as "Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix"), and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, and the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the U.S. The song was then further remixed by artist Mr. Roy, spawning an entirely new CD-single of remixes that again charted.
Tori Amos Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big) [Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix]
Tori Amos: Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big) [Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix]
Written and produced by Tori Amos
Remix by Armand Van Helden
1996
published: 05 Feb 2010
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Remix) (Official Music Video)
Tori Amos - Professional Window (Remix) (Official Music Video) from the album 'Boys For Pele' (1996)
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Professional Widow (2016 Remaster)
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Professional Widow (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Records 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
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published: 17 Nov 2016
Tori Amos "Professional Widow" Original
boys for pele 1996
published: 19 Jun 2013
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (lyrics)
When I first got into Tori, this wasn't my favorite album but this was my favorite song. I would play this over and over and over. I can't explain why, I just loved it lol. And that bull in the background tho. I do not own this song, of course, or the images used in the video.
published: 26 Jun 2018
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Radio Edit) (2016 Remaster)
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Radio Edit) (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Recording Corporation 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Producer, Remixer: Armand Van Helden
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Coordinator: Johnny de Mairo
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
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published: 17 Nov 2016
Tori Amos: Professional Widow [Armand Van Helden's Star Trunk Mix]
Cream Classics Volume 2:
Added for posterity .
published: 10 Nov 2013
TORI AMOS concert PROFESSIONAL WIDOW
Slag pit
Stag shit
Honey bring it close to my lips
Yes
Don't blow those brains yet
We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family
Rest you shoulder Peaches and Cream
Everywhere a Judas as fas as you can see
Beautiful anbgel
Calling "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali"
Prism perfect
Honey bring it close to your lipls
Yes
What is termed a landslide of principle
Proportion boy it better be big boy
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my dady
Gonna strike a deal make him feel
LIke a Congressman
It runs in the family
Maother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will sup...
published: 08 Feb 2008
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Just Da Funk Remix) (Armand Van Helden)
Tori Amos -- Professional Widow
Label: Atlantic -- 0-85499
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 02 Jul 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Speed Garage
Professional Widow's Armand van Helden mixes contain uncredited samples of "Trinidad" performed by John Gibbs and the US Steel Band.
Tori Amos - Professional Window (Remix) (Official Music Video) from the album 'Boys For Pele' (1996)
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Tori Amos - Professional Window (Remix) (Official Music Video) from the album 'Boys For Pele' (1996)
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Tori Amos - Professional Window (Remix) (Official Music Video) from the album 'Boys For Pele' (1996)
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Professional Widow (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Records 2016 Remastered Rhino Ent...
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Records 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
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Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Records 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
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When I first got into Tori, this wasn't my favorite album but this was my favorite song. I would play this over and over and over. I can't explain why, I just l...
When I first got into Tori, this wasn't my favorite album but this was my favorite song. I would play this over and over and over. I can't explain why, I just loved it lol. And that bull in the background tho. I do not own this song, of course, or the images used in the video.
When I first got into Tori, this wasn't my favorite album but this was my favorite song. I would play this over and over and over. I can't explain why, I just loved it lol. And that bull in the background tho. I do not own this song, of course, or the images used in the video.
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Radio Edit) (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ ...
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Radio Edit) (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Recording Corporation 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Producer, Remixer: Armand Van Helden
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Coordinator: Johnny de Mairo
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
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Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Radio Edit) (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Recording Corporation 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Producer, Remixer: Armand Van Helden
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Coordinator: Johnny de Mairo
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
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Slag pit
Stag shit
Honey bring it close to my lips
Yes
Don't blow those brains yet
We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Jus...
Slag pit
Stag shit
Honey bring it close to my lips
Yes
Don't blow those brains yet
We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family
Rest you shoulder Peaches and Cream
Everywhere a Judas as fas as you can see
Beautiful anbgel
Calling "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali"
Prism perfect
Honey bring it close to your lipls
Yes
What is termed a landslide of principle
Proportion boy it better be big boy
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my dady
Gonna strike a deal make him feel
LIke a Congressman
It runs in the family
Maother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
Slag pit
Stag shit
Honey bring it close to my lips
Yes
Don't blow those brains yet
We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family
Rest you shoulder Peaches and Cream
Everywhere a Judas as fas as you can see
Beautiful anbgel
Calling "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali"
Prism perfect
Honey bring it close to your lipls
Yes
What is termed a landslide of principle
Proportion boy it better be big boy
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my dady
Gonna strike a deal make him feel
LIke a Congressman
It runs in the family
Maother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
Tori Amos -- Professional Widow
Label: Atlantic -- 0-85499
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 02 Jul 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style...
Tori Amos -- Professional Widow
Label: Atlantic -- 0-85499
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 02 Jul 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Speed Garage
Professional Widow's Armand van Helden mixes contain uncredited samples of "Trinidad" performed by John Gibbs and the US Steel Band.
Tori Amos -- Professional Widow
Label: Atlantic -- 0-85499
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 02 Jul 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Speed Garage
Professional Widow's Armand van Helden mixes contain uncredited samples of "Trinidad" performed by John Gibbs and the US Steel Band.
Tori Amos - Professional Window (Remix) (Official Music Video) from the album 'Boys For Pele' (1996)
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Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Records 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
Auto-generated by YouTube.
When I first got into Tori, this wasn't my favorite album but this was my favorite song. I would play this over and over and over. I can't explain why, I just loved it lol. And that bull in the background tho. I do not own this song, of course, or the images used in the video.
Provided to YouTube by Rhino Atlantic
Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) (Radio Edit) (2016 Remaster) · Tori Amos
Boys For Pele (Deluxe)
℗ 1996 Atlantic Recording Corporation 2016 Remastered Rhino Entertainment
Programmer: Alan Friedman
Producer, Remixer: Armand Van Helden
Bass Guitar: George Porter Jr
Coordinator: Johnny de Mairo
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: Steve Caton
Vocals: Tori Amos
Composer, Lyricist: Tori Amos
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Slag pit
Stag shit
Honey bring it close to my lips
Yes
Don't blow those brains yet
We gotta be big boy
We gotta be big
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family
Rest you shoulder Peaches and Cream
Everywhere a Judas as fas as you can see
Beautiful anbgel
Calling "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali"
Prism perfect
Honey bring it close to your lipls
Yes
What is termed a landslide of principle
Proportion boy it better be big boy
Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my dady
Gonna strike a deal make him feel
LIke a Congressman
It runs in the family
Maother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
Mother Mary
China white
Brown may be sweeter
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
She will supply
Tori Amos -- Professional Widow
Label: Atlantic -- 0-85499
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 02 Jul 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Speed Garage
Professional Widow's Armand van Helden mixes contain uncredited samples of "Trinidad" performed by John Gibbs and the US Steel Band.
"Professional Widow" is a 1996 song written by singer-songwriterTori Amos. It is a harpsichord-driven rock dirge and was included on her 1996 album Boys for Pele. The eponymous "professional widow" is widely rumoured to be Courtney Love, former wife of Kurt Cobain, whom Trent Reznor blames for the destruction of the friendship (whatever its extent) between himself and Amos.
In 1999, Reznor's band Nine Inch Nails released a single called "Starfuckers, Inc.", with "Starfucker" being a word that appears in "Professional Widow".
Lyrically the song borrows directly from the short story "The Sphinx" by Edgar Allan Poe. Specifically the lyric "what is termed a landslide of principal proportion" is taken from the line "what is termed a land-slide, of the principal portion of its trees"; and the lyric "prism perfect" from the line "in shape a perfect prism."
It was remixed by house music producer Armand van Helden (marketed as "Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix"), and reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, and the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the U.S. The song was then further remixed by artist Mr. Roy, spawning an entirely new CD-single of remixes that again charted.
Slag pit Stag shit Honey bring it close to my lips Don't blow those brains yet We gotta be big boy We gotta be big Starfucker just like my Daddy Just like my Daddy selling his baby Just like my Daddy Gonna strike a deal made him feel Like a congressman It runs in the family Rest you shoulder Peaches and Cream Everywhere a Judas as fas as you can see Beautiful anbgel Calling "We got every re-run of Muhammad Ali" Prism perfect Honey bring it close to your lipls What is termed a landslide of principle Proportion boy it better be big boy Starfucker just like my Daddy Just like my Daddy selling his baby Just like my dady Gonna strike a deal make him feel LIke a Congressman It runs in the family Maother Mary China white Brown may be sweeter She will supply Mother Mary China white Brown may be sweeter She will supply She will supply She will supply