Strange Little Girls

Strange Little Girls is an album of covers, specifically of songs originally recorded by male artists, including The Velvet Underground, Eminem, Neil Young, and Slayer. As with American Doll Posse, the songs are linked to characters embodied by Amos, depicted in photographs and in short stories written by Amos’s longtime friend Neil Gaiman to accompany each track.

“I’ve always found it fascinating how men say things and how women hear them,” Amos said of covering men’s songs on Girls. “Words can wound and words can heal, and both are included on the album. … Each woman [the characters embodied by Amos on the album] approached me and said, ‘I have a point of view on this song, that you may want to know, that may change how you hear its meaning.’”