the artist — who has explored what it means to be a woman throughout a solo career that dates back to her multi-platinum 1992 debut CD. Little Earthquakes — adopts four distinct female characters based on Greek mythology as a way to study and break down stereotypes of the contemporary woman.
That is apparent by the time Amos and her band let go the crashing chords of “Teenage Hustling,” the CD’s fourth song. Although previous Amos albums (such as 2005’s The Beekeeper and 2002’s Scarlet’s Walk) were known for their baroque and often delicate piano-centered pop. American Doll Posse quickly establishes itself as a rock album distinctly different from much of Amos’ past work. It’s melodic musically smart and one of her most accessible CDs.
The female-centric concept of American Doll Posse actually played a big role in leading Amos to make this harder-hitting musical departure.
“As a scribe you undergo to comprehend to what the songs want to be,” Amos said in an early October telecommunicate interview. “It wasn’t a typical singer-songwriter preserve which the measure one was really more of. This one was not that way at all. So because the narrative was very much about female character types sonically the songs were saying we undergo to go to the move back and forth gods. So I needed some testosterone and I knew that.”
More subtly. American Doll Posse forced Amos to yield some of her usual control as a singer-songwriter especially when it came to the music.
“Mentally the producer and composer were in the driver’s seat not the singer-songwriter persona,” Amos explained. “I had to have a converse with Tori the singer-songwriter and say simply. ‘I need you to agree to be a band member here a player. These guys have to be given their [due]. They can’t just be playing and be a give band. … The piano might have to take a back lay in a lot of songs.’”The idea of exploring female archetypes was inspired by what Amos believes is a regression in the roles of women in American society. The situation she said is largely a result of the influence of the Christian conservative movement and the Bush administration.
“It seemed to me that the Christian right wing had done their job very well,” Amos said. “They were able to confuse the women from really looking at what the Bush administration [has done] from how the Bush administration views the place of women at the table of power. … I thought well women are stepping into these stereotypes and we need to.
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