| "Jackie's Strength" | ||||
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 Artwork for 1998 US enhanced CD single | ||||
| Single by Tori Amos | ||||
| from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel | ||||
| B-side | "Never Seen Blue" "Beulah Land" | |||
| Released | September 15, 1998 (US) February 23, 1999 (Remixes) | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
| Length | 4:26 | |||
| Label | Atlantic | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tori Amos | |||
| Producer(s) | Tori Amos | |||
| Tori Amos singles chronology | ||||
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"Jackie's Strength" is a song by Tori Amos, released as the second single from her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel. It reached #54 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart. The remix single, released the following year, reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play chart in the U.S.[1] The lyrics refer to Jackie Onassis, there is also a brief reference to the Kennedy assassination ("Shots rang out, the police came"), though Amos herself explained that the song also concerns her own personal doubts about marriage.[2] Amos reiterated this in an interview with columnist Steven Daly in Rolling Stone (Issue #789; June 25, 1998).
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 20.
- ^ Quotes from interviews with Tori Amos Archived 2009-03-27 at the Wayback Machine