"Jackie's Strength" is a song by Tori Amos

Tori Amos

Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

, released as the second single from her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel

From the Choirgirl Hotel

From the Choirgirl Hotel is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Tori Amos. A departure from her previous albums, it was more heavily produced and a very radio-friendly project featuring a full rock band sound . Upon its release in May 1998, the album debuted at US #5 and UK #6...

. It reached #54 on the U.S. Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart. The remix

Remix

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 single, released the following year, reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...

 chart in the U.S. The lyrics refer to Jackie Onassis

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...

, 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. Amos reiterated this in an interview with columnist Steven Daly in Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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 Magazine (Issue #789; June 25, 1998).

Music video

The music video, which is in black and white, portrays Amos as a bride on her wedding day. She travels in a taxi cab, hiding from her wedding party as the taxi passes by the church where she is to be married. The video includes imagery of realistic situations such as teen pregnancy, pre-marital sex, interracial relationships and use of medication by elderly persons. The video can be interpreted as a commentary on life-changing decisions. It was directed by James Brown.

US Enhanced CD single

Includes videos of "Jackie's Strength" and "Raspberry Swirl"

1. "Jackie's Strength" - 4:17
2. "Never Seen Blue" - 3:41
3. "Beulah Land" - 2:56

US CD remix single

1. "Jackie's Strength (Wedding Cake Edit)" - 4:03
2. "Father Lucifer (Sylkscreen Remix)" - 4:30
3. "Jackie's Strength (Wedding Cake Club Mix)" - 8:40
4. "Jackie's Strength (One Rascal Dub #1)" - 6:24
5. "Father Lucifer (Sylkscreen Remix Instrumental)" - 4:26
6. "Jackie's Strength (Wedding Cake Meltdown Mix)" - 8:19
7. "Jackie's Strength (One Rascal Dub #2)" - 5:02
8. "Jackie's Strength (Bonus Beats)" - 2:41

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1998	U.S. Hot 100 Singles	54
1998	U.S. Hot 100 Airplay Hot 100 Airplay The Hot 100 Airplay chart is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard...	42
1998	U.S. Hot 100 Singles	61
1999	U.S. Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	1
	U.S. Hot Dance Single Sales	5
1999	Canadian Hot 100 Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...	12