Tori Amos

In Strange Little Girls Tori Amos has made a record that is huge in its strangeness: twelve
covers of songs written by men - mostly for or about women, mostly without happy endings
- in which Amos sings from the other side of the anxiety and sorrow. It is dangerous work.
Amos is messing here with hard, cynical, even predatory males, including Lou Reed,
Depeche Mode, the Stranglers and Eminem, redirecting narrative and intent as if... More >