Okay, first of all, this thread is complete shit.
Second of all, Tori Amos and Alanus Morrissette (sic) should not me mentioned on the same forum, let alone in the same thread. Alanus Morrissette is some bullshit earth mother who did some good songs in the mid nineties and since then has apparently made so much of an effort to not sell records that...well, she sucks. And I don't think she sells many records these days either.
Tori Amos, however, was never mainstream to that extent, but is a far better musician/songwriter and people still buy her albums to a much lower, but constant, level. A wannabe Kate Bush, maybe, but better than Alanis Morrissette. Nothing Alanis has come up with matches 'Cornflake Girl.'