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Am I Not Your Girl? is the third album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor and the follow up to the hugely successful I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. It is a collection of covers of jazz standards, which Sinead describes as "the songs that she grew up listening to and that made me want to become a singer".
The album is dedicated to the people of New York City and especially the homeless whom Sinéad met at St. Mark's Place [1]
The album did not gain much critical acclaim, particularly because Sinéad had become a major artist in the rock / pop genre after her previous album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got and this album was set in the period between 1920 and 1940 which was not a popular musical period. This, coupled with the Garden State Arts Center controversy and an introduction in the album in which she mentions sexual abuse, addiction, emotional abuse, and asks "Où est le roi Perdu? if you're out there - I want to see you." [1], led to Sinéad losing much of the commercial momentum her career had built up until then.
The album sold 1,500,000 copies worldwide.
[edit] Track listing
| # |
Title |
Writer(s) |
Length |
| 1. |
"Why Don't You Do Right?" |
McCoy |
2:30 |
| 2. |
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" |
Hart, Rodgers |
6:15 |
| 3. |
"Secret Love" |
Fain, Webster |
2:56 |
| 4. |
"Black Coffee" |
Burke, Webster |
3:21 |
| 5. |
"Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" |
Mullins |
4:29 |
| 6. |
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" |
Lloyd Webber, Rice |
5:39 |
| 7. |
"I Want to Be Loved by You" |
Kalmar, Ruby, Stothart |
2:45 |
| 8. |
"Gloomy Sunday" |
Javor, Lewis, Seress |
3:56 |
| 9. |
"Love Letters" |
Heyman, Young |
3:07 |
| 10. |
"How Insensitive" |
DeMoraes, Gimbel, Jobim |
3:28 |
| 11. |
"Scarlet Ribbons" |
Danzig, Segal |
4:14 |
| 12. |
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" (instrumental) |
Lloyd Webber, Rice |
5:10 |
| Hidden track |
Personal message about pain (Jesus and the Money Changers) |
O'Connor |
2:00 |
[edit] Charts
| Country |
Date |
Peak position |
| United Kingdom |
September 1992 |
6 [2] |
| United States |
1992 |
27 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Booklet of Am I Not Your Girl
- ^ Everyhit.co.uk UK Top 40 database. Accessed: October 24, 2006
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Goodnight, Thank You, You've Been a Lovely Audience • Live: The Year of the Horse/The Value of Ignorance
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