American Doll Posse

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American Doll Posse
American Doll Posse cover
Studio album by Tori Amos
Released Flag of Germany April 27, 2007
Flag of Italy April 28, 2007
Flag of United Kingdom April 30, 2007
Flag of United States Flag of Australia May 1, 2007
Recorded June 2006 – February 2007 in Cornwall, United Kingdom
Label Epic Records
Producer(s) Tori Amos
Tori Amos chronology
A Piano: The Collection
(2006)		 American Doll Posse
(2007)


American Doll Posse is an album by singer-songwriter Tori Amos that will be released in the United States on May 1, 2007[1]. Pre-release clips of "Bouncing off Clouds", "Big Wheel" and "Secret Spell" have been streamed by promosquad. [2] A fourth short clip, "Teenage Hustling," has surfaced on NPR. [3]

"Big Wheel" was released as the album's first radio single. "Teenage Hustling" and "Bouncing Off Clouds" are being considered for the second single. [4]

Contents

[edit] Development

During the 2005 summer tour and in several recent interviews while promoting A Piano: The Collection, Amos revealed cryptic details about the upcoming album:

“ Without giving anything away, I have my high heels on. I like the way that feels. [5] ”

Tori has also revealed that the new album is political in nature:

“ The main message of my new album is: the political is personal. This as opposed to the feminist statement from years ago that the personal is political. I know it has been said that it goes both ways, but we have to turn it around. We have to think like that. I’m now taking on subjects that I could not have been able to take on in my twenties. With Little Earthquakes I took on more personal things. But if you are going to be an American woman in 2007 with a real view on what is going on, you need to be brave, and you need to know that some people won’t want to look at it. [6] ”

Amos has also considered the return of the harpsichord and Wurlitzer on this record. [7] She has made several comments about bringing a "warrior woman" out, as well as stating that the record will be a very different chapter from what has come before. [8]

The album, like all Tori Amos albums since her 1998 album From the Choirgirl Hotel [9], has been recorded at Martian Engineering in Cornwall [10].

[edit] The Doll Posse

The American Doll Posse of the title consists of five different female characters that Amos "developed around the album's 20 tracks," according to US Weekly [11]. The characters represent different aspects of Tori's own personality:

“ What I'm trying to tell other women is they have their own version of the compartmentalised feminine which may have been repressed in each one of them. For many years I have been an image; that isn’t necessarily who I am completely. I have made certain choices and that doesn’t mean that those choices are the whole story. I think these women are showing me that I have not explored honest extensions of the self who are now as real as the redhead.[12] ”

On her next tour to promote the album, Tori will open each show dressed as a different character[13].

[edit] Isabel

Isabel (HisTORIcal) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Artemis and is the voice of the tracks "Yo George" and "Dark Side Of The Sun", amongst others [14]. She is a photographer and is the most outwardly political.

[edit] Clyde

Clyde (CliTORIdes) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Persephone and is the voice of the tracks "Bouncing On Clounds", "Girl Disappearing" and "Roosterspur Bridge", amongst others [15]. She is emotional and idealistic.

[edit] Pip

Pip (ExpiraTORIal) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Athena and is the voice of the tracks "Teenage Hustling" and "Body & Soul", amongst others [16]. She is a "warrior woman" and is confrontational.

[edit] Santa

Santa (SanaTORIum) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess Aphrodite and is the voice of the tracks "Secret Spell", "You Can Bring Your Dog" and "Programmable Soda", amongst others [17]. She is sensual and passionate.

[edit] Tori

Tori (TerraTORIes) is based upon the Greek mythological gods Demeter and Dionysus and is the voice of the tracks "Big Wheel" and "Digital Ghost", amongst others [18]. She appears to be a caricature of the artist herself, with promotional images released depicting the character holding sage (a reference to 2002's Scarlet's Walk) and with a Bible in one hand and the word 'shame' scrawled across the other, both references to Amos' recurring theme of religion and the patriarchy in her work. On the cover of this record, Tori is portraited holding a chicken/rooster - hinted pun to her previous work Boys for Pele, in which the song "Professional Widow" has the lyrics "give me peace, love and a hard cock", and also to the song Blood Roses "when chickens get a taste of your meat" (referece to Alice Walker's book Possessing the Secret of Joy, in which girls were circumcized, and their meat thrown to the chickens to eat). What caused some confusion was a rumor spread all over the web that the word for chicken in japanese was Tori, but "tori" actually is bird. Chicken in japanese is niwatori that literally means "yard (garden) bird".

[edit] Posse Blogs

As part of the marketing campaign, a series of blogs written by each character are circulating on the Internet on various websites, with fans invited to "hunt" the blogs down [19].

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

While it has not been confirmed by an official source, it is believed that the blog for the character of Santa is on MySpace [1]. It has been noted that the profile in question is the second friend on Tori's official Top 8 friends list. A number of blogs which appear to have been written by the characters Clyde [2], Isabel [3] and Pip [4] have also been discovered. However, neither of these blogs have been confirmed as official.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Track listing

The track listing has been officially released on Tori's site.[20]

  1. Yo George* (from the perspective of Isabel [21].)
  2. Big Wheel (from the perspective of Tori [22].)
  3. Bouncing off Clouds (from the perspective of Clyde [23].)
  4. Teenage Hustling (from the perspective of Pip [24].)
  5. Digital Ghost (from the perspective of Tori[25].)
  6. You Can Bring Your Dog (from the perspective of Santa [26].)
  7. Mr. Bad Man
  8. Fat Slut*
  9. Girl Disappearing (from the perspective of Clyde [27].)
  10. Secret Spell (from the perspective of Santa [28].)
  11. Devils and Gods*
  12. Body and Soul (from the perspective of Pip and Santa [29].)
  13. Father’s Son
  14. Programmable Soda* (from the perspective of Santa [30].)
  15. Code Red
  16. Roosterspur Bridge (from the perspective of Clyde [31].)
  17. Beauty of Speed
  18. Almost Rosey
  19. Velvet Revolution*
  20. Dark Side of the Sun (from the perspective of Isabel [32].)
  21. Posse Bonus
  22. Smokey Joe
  23. Dragon

(* denotes interlude tracks)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tori Amos - American Doll Posse. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
  2. ^ News: Hear New Songs From ADP!. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
  3. ^ Tori On NPR. Retrieved on 2007-03-23.
  4. ^ AOL.
  5. ^ Tori Amos Straps on Her High Heels. Retrieved on 2007-02-20.
  6. ^ Tori Amos on American Doll Posse. Retrieved on 2007-03-12.
  7. ^ News: BBC 6 Music Interview. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
  8. ^ News: Recording On Tori's Next Album To Start Soon. Retrieved on 2007-03-10.
  9. ^ About The Martians.... Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
  10. ^ MP3.com: Tori Amos announces new album, tour. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
  11. ^ News: The Posse ... Revealed!. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
  12. ^ Meet The Posse. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  13. ^ Meet The Posse. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  14. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  15. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  16. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  17. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  18. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  19. ^ News: Tori Introduces the American Doll Posse. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
  20. ^ Track listing. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
  21. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  22. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  23. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  24. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  25. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  26. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  27. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  28. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  29. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  30. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  31. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  32. ^ Tori Amos To Release New Album American Doll Posse; To Launch World Tour in May 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.


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