Spinner.com is today giving us our first look and listen to a plaintive new Tori Amos song titled Maybe California from her new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin which is due out on May 19. Tori wrote the song as one mother to other mothers as her gift for Mother’s Day. Here are a few screencaps from the visualette that accompanies the song and a short explanation about the song’s meaning:

This Mother’s Day, Tori Amos wanted to extend a special gift to all mothers in the best way she knows how: with song. ‘Maybe California’ — off her May 19th-due album, ‘Abnormally Attracted to Sin’ — was written, as she describes it, from one mother to another, who, as the lyrics explore, is contemplating suicide. The tune itself is meant as a saving grace, of sorts. “There are people in our lives, and we all know them, that are able to give even in the darkest of times,” Amos, who has an 8-year-old daughter, Natashya, says. “Even when they seem depleted. But somehow by giving, they gain this magical light. Even the most giving person needs a gift every once and a while, just to know they are seen and appreciated. ‘Maybe California’ is my gift to you.”

As Los Angelinos will recognize, the visualette video was filmed in LA and features a few well-known landmarks and attractions. The song is slow and sad but is nonetheless beautiful and poignant. The visualette adds to the feel of the song and can be watched in full after the jump …

The video has the same feel that her first video/visualette Welcome to England has (which you can watch in full HERE). Hearing this song only makes me want to hear the rest of the album, like, now. Head on over to Spinner.com to download an MP3 of Maybe California.

Additionally, Pink reader Kush sends along a new promo pic of Tori lookin’ all badass with a purple shaggy coat and small knife:


It looks like the promo photos that accompany this album also tell a tale much like the video visualettes do. I am dying to see the final product in full … May 19th can’t get here soon enough for me.

[Source, thanks Kush]