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Strange Girls                                       

Strange Little Girls, due out on September 18th, is a project that Amos says came about from the long bonding sessions she had nursing Natashya.

"The thing about nursing is, you do have enforced thinking time for hours and hours and hours a day. That's when I formulated the whole thing," says Amos from her home studio in Cornwall, England. "In those hours I started to decide what I was going to do, and it did kind of surprise me what my choice was."

Amos' album is also shaped by a recent Martin Amis piece in the London newspaper The Guardian. The article, about pornography in America, made Amos "put an ear to the ground and hear what people are saying," she says. "The one question that I had to really pull back was: What is it in us, in women, that is OK to be defecated on?"

"I'm just kind of blown away," Amos says about the current climate in America. "A lot of these young [musicians] remind me of grandpas that I used to play for at the Rotary Club, because the grandpa's were misogynists and homophobic and rightwinged."

Amos, who plans on touring for Strange Little Girls "in a different way than I've toured in a long, long, time," says the core of the album -- which features King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew and longtime collaborator Matt Chamberlain -- will deal with the dilemma of opposites.

"I think it's a very difficult time in America right now, [for] a heterosexual male," Amos says. "Face it, most of them want to be black, or they have to look over their shoulder at the woman that's going to take their job. It's driven me to do the project I'm about to do."

LINDSAY GOLDENBERG
(April 13, 2001)

(Source and above photo: Rollingstone.com)

New Album News: Sources say that Tori will have a new album out in the fall of this year. She was reported to have been recording at her studio in Cornwall, England. It is unclear, however, if this will be an album of new material, a collection of b-sides, or cover songs. As I learn more, I will let you know. (Source: Mikewhy's The Dent)

(Picture courtesy of  Rollingstone.com)

Tori doing a movie score? Tori told Launch Magazine in early 2000, "I've finished albums for awhile. I'm looking at visuals right now, doing music for visuals...I got a call from somebody I really like on the visual side and they said, 'Hey, will you give it a go?' I said, 'Absolutely.' And we'll see what happens. We had a laugh, and we'll see. But no rush."

This Summer, Cleopatra Records will be releasing a tribute to Tori titled, Songs Of A Goddess : A Tribute To Tori Amos, featuring many Tori favorites covered by "an array of rising artists from across planet. Each have borrowed from the fruit of her bounty and present their versions here with fresh inspirations"! 

For more information go to www.cleorecs.com or directly to www.cleorecs.com/news/toriamos.htm. (Source: Hereinmyhead.com)

Not too far from when I had my own child, Tori gave birh to a baby girl who she named Natashya Lórien Hawley. Upon feeding her daughter for the first time, Tori was quoted to have said, "an ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila."

Born 9/5/00, little Natashya weighed 7lbs 1 oz and was 21 inches long. Congrats to Mark and Tori on their new arrival.

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