NEW YORK (Billboard) - Tori Amos has ended her six-year tenure with Epic Records, calling on her fellow artists to "stop being dependent ... on any system that has become undependable."

The singer/songwriter, 44, released three albums on Epic, most recently 2007's "American Doll Posse," which hit No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

Before that, she was with Atlantic from 1992 until 2001, when she joined artists such as Rod Stewart, Poe and Collective Soul in leaving the label.

In a statement on her Web site, Amos said she looked forward to crossing into "the new unchartered Music Frontier," where the impossible will soon become possible.

"Artists need not fear structure, we just have to design and partner with expansive ideas," she said. "It is time for us as artists to stop being dependent, dependent on any system that has become undependable. Only then can we help to create a new system that propagates and secures independence for each creator."

Amos' next album, due in spring 2009, will be "a project of new music and visuals which is being started in the summer," Amos' manager John Witherspoon told Billboard.com.

Amos is also writing a musical for the British National Theater, "The Light Princess," and in July will unveil a graphic novel, "Comic Book Tattoo," based on her catalog.

Reuters/Billboard

It seems like nobody cares.

Goodbye Tori.

*I* care!!! I loved her last album! :Topaz:

errr..... it was ok....

:rolleyes:

:srkisrle2:

It was one of the best albums of 2007, thank you very much.

Absolutely. Probably a little too complex for some to appreciate. :sadbitch:

I love me some Tori but how much did her last album sell ?
It's better to leave then to be dumped :files:

Indeed. In fact, I'd rank it best album of 2007.

I think it was my 2nd or 3rd best album of 2007. For an album with so many tracks, it was incredibly consistent and high quality.

I agree!! When I first put it on I was like "Okay, good start.. but we all know there will be 10 fillers or more here" yet there's not one track I would say is a filler. It's such a complete album. I love it.

That's what I thought. I either liked or loved every single track on it. That's pretty incredible for such a massive album.

I think the self-distribution indie route is crucial and smart for any established artist at this point. Epic didn't know how to market Tori and they blew promoting one of the most underrated albums from last year. I know a lot of old-school Tori fans who lost interest after she left Atlantic but ADP drew them back like it was still the 90's, but so many people never even got a chance to listen to the album because Scarlet's Walk and The Beekeeper turned them off, and this album was a huge step up from those two

She never really tickled my bean but I must say that I like ADP.

Hundreds of thousands of people care, thank you very much.

What i fear is that Tori will release her future albums only in digital downloads, as she did with the bootlegs in this last tour! And i like her pretty albums with spooky pictures and lyrics!

I think that henz and I saw a physical box containing the bootlegs... didn't we?

Yeah, I was really surprised. I didn't think it existed. But those were from her tour before this one. The bootlegs from her most recent tour have only been released digitally.

Oh, i have the physical cd box of the Beekeeper Tour! And by the way, those bootlegs are AMAZING!!!!!!

This Doll Posse tour didn't have physical releases.