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"Strange Little Girls" is not a pretty album, but that's the point: the ugliness of male-female relations, which she exposes bit by bit with each cover, is a fact that is--in both pop music and pop culture--all too often ignored.
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How deliciously perverse, and how very, very her.
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She is at the top of her game, and hits it out of the park both concept-wise and musically.
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Surprisingly, Strange Little Girls is a street project -- daring, visceral and engaging, even when it's not fully successful.
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For all her concern with the power of language, she seems to forget that in music, that language loses strength exponentially with each layer of music added.
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She attacks the possibilities in Strange Little Girls with a grip and grit often missing from her other solo work, and her handful of bull's-eyes easily justifies her audacity.
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Strange Little Girls won't resolve the perpetual nutjob/goddess debate swirling around Amos; there's plenty of evidence on hand for either point of view.
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''Girls'' is largely a success, even if most cuts sound traditionally Tori.
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But by not lyrically responding to the originals--like Liz Phair did for Exile in Guyville, for instance--Tori stops short of high concept and more than once slips from being revolutionary to simply pretentious.
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Neither a straight feminist critique nor a tribute album, Strange Little Girls is rather a nuanced exploration of the dualities of love and aggression.
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Alternative PressA rare good covers album--creating successful reinterpretations while piquing curiosity for the originals. [Nov 2001, p.74]
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BlenderGirls isn't as pop-friendly as 1998's From The Choirgirl Hotel, but Amos's take on Depeche Mode's starkly beautiful "Enjoy The Silence" is irresistible. [Aug/Sep 2001, p.120]
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MojoThe power and import of the record is undeniable. [Oct 2001, p.112]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 120 out of 136
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Mixed: 8 out of 136
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Negative: 8 out of 136
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Aug 15, 2018This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Jul 13, 2018good covers album with a very smart idea of change this songs for a woman's vision
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Dec 7, 2017