Strange Little Girls by Tori Amos

Strange Little Girls, Tori Amos' 2001 album for Atlantic, is a covers record with a thesis. She took 12 songs written and first sung by men and flipped each one around to look at it from a woman's side, producing the whole thing herself.

It's a concept album right down to the packaging: Amos dreamed up a different female character for every song, with twins sharing one of them, and posed as each for the photographs, with makeup by Kevyn Aucoin. The arrangements lean baroque and unsettling, turning songs you think you know into eerie character studies, and the effect is less tribute than interrogation.

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