Professional Widow
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| Single by Tori Amos | ||||
| from the album Boys for Pele | ||||
| Released | July 2, 1996 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Tori Amos | |||
| Producer(s) | Tori Amos | |||
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"Professional Widow" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released on her third album, Boys for Pele (1996). It is a harpsichord-driven rock song with lyrics rumored to have been inspired by the American songwriter Courtney Love.
"Professional Widow" was released as the album's third single on July 2, 1996, by Atlantic and EastWest, with remixes by the house producers Armand van Helden and MK. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In Italy, the original version peaked at number two in October 1996. An edited version of the Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix of "Professional Widow" was released as a double A-side single with "Hey Jupiter" in Europe and Australia.
On December 30, 1996, van Helden's remix was released as a single in the UK as "Professional Widow (It's Got to Be Big)". It topped the UK singles chart in January 1997 and reached the top 20 in Finland, Iceland, Ireland and Norway. In 2022, Rolling Stone named the remix the 109th-greatest dance song.