Strange Little Girls is a concept album released by singer-songwriter Tori Amos in 2001. The album's twelve tracks are covers of songs written and originally performed by men (much like Annie Lennox's 1995 album Medusa), reinterpreted by Amos from a female's point of view. Amos created female personae for each track (one song featured twins) and was photographed as each, with make-up done by Kevyn Aucoin. In the United States the album was issued...
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Strange Little Girls is a concept album released by singer-songwriter Tori Amos in 2001. The album's twelve tracks are covers of songs written and originally performed by men (much like Annie Lennox's 1995 album Medusa), reinterpreted by Amos from a female's point of view. Amos created female personae for each track (one song featured twins) and was photographed as each, with make-up done by Kevyn Aucoin. In the United States the album was issued with four alternative covers depicting Amos as the characters singing "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (pictured), "Strange Little Girl", "Time" and "Raining Blood". A fifth cover of the "I Don't Like Mondays" character was also issued in the UK and someother territories. Text accompanying the photos and songs was written by novelist Neil Gaiman. The complete short stories in which this text appears can be found in Gaiman's 2006 collection Fragile Things.
As with Amos' previous two studio albums, the cover album was recorded at her Cornwall studio....
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