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American Doll Posse is the ninth studio album by singer-songwriter Tori Amos that was released in the United States on May 1, 2007.

"Big Wheel" was released as the album's first radio single in the United States. However, multiple radio stations have rejected "Big Wheel" because the acronym MILF is repeated in the bridge of the song. Despite the acronym, the single has been highly successful on Triple A radio. "Bouncing Off Clouds" has been released as the first single in Europe. "Teenage Hustling" is being considered for a follow-up single.

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.

Amos 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.

Amos has also considered the return of the harpsichord and Wurlitzer on this record. 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.

Following preliminary writing work during Amos' five-month solo tour in the spring and summer of 2005, and further work after the end of the tour, recording sessions commenced in June 2006 at Amos' home studio in Cornwall, England, with Jon Evans on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums. After a month of tracking work, Amos continued editing and recording for the remainder of the year, as well as working on the promotion for her career-spanning box set A Piano: The Collection.

Mixing work was completed in January and February 2007, and the album title was announced through a press release on February 20.

The album, like all Tori Amos albums since 1998's From the Choirgirl Hotel , has been recorded at Martian Engineering in Cornwall .

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 . 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.

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

Isabel

Isabel (HisTORIcal) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess of the hunt Artemis and is the voice of the tracks "Yo George", "Mr. Bad Man", "Devils & Gods", "Almost Rosey" and "Dark Side Of The Sun" . She is a photographer and is the most outwardly political.

Clyde

Clyde (CliTORIdes) is based upon the Greek mythological queen of the underworld Persephone and is the voice of the tracks "Bouncing Off Clouds", "Girl Disappearing", "Roosterspur Bridge" and "Beauty Of Speed". Clyde "wears her emotional wounds on her sleeve, but remains idealistic. She is looking at the effects of not being a whole person. She is trying to figure out what she believes in and she is dealing with having been disappointed in her life" .

Pip

Pip (ExpiraTORIal) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess of war and wisdom Athena and is the voice of the tracks "Teenage Hustling", "Fat Slut", "Body & Soul" (with Santa), "Velvet Revolution" and "Smokey Joe". She is a "warrior woman" and is confrontational.

Santa

Santa (SanaTORIum) is based upon the Greek mythological goddess of love and beauty Aphrodite and is the voice of the tracks "You Can Bring Your Dog", "Secret Spell", "Body & Soul" (with Pip), "Programmable Soda", "Dragon" and "My Posse Can Do". She is sensual and passionate.

Tori

Tori (TerraTORIes) is based upon the Greek mythological agricultural gods Demeter and Dionysus and is the voice of the tracks "Big Wheel", "Digital Ghost", "Father's Son", "Code Red" and "Posse Bonus". She appears to be a caricature of the artist herself, with promotional images released depicting the character holding sage and with a Bible in one hand and the word 'shame' scrawled across the other.

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 .

She has mentioned in an interview that she would be updating the blogs and that the blogs will be available until the end of December 2007.

Track listing

The track listing has been officially released on Amos's site. Included with song titles are the names of the characters from whose perspective the songs are sung, where available .

1. "Yo George"* (Isabel) - 1:25
2. "Big Wheel" (Tori) - 3:15
3. "Bouncing off Clouds" (Clyde) - 4:06
4. "Teenage Hustling" (Pip) - 4:02
5. "Digital Ghost" (Tori) - 3:50
6. "You Can Bring Your Dog" (Santa) - 4:04
7. "Mr. Bad Man" (Isabel) - 3:18
8. "Fat Slut"* (Pip) - 0:41
9. "Girl Disappearing" (Clyde) - 4:00
10. "Secret Spell" (Santa) - 4:04
11. "Devils and Gods"* (Isabel) - 0:53
12. "Body and Soul" (Pip and Santa) - 3:56
13. "Father's Son" (Tori) - 3:59
14. "Programmable Soda"* (Santa) - 1:25
15. "Code Red" (Tori) - 5:27
16. "Roosterspur Bridge" (Clyde) - 4:01
17. "Beauty of Speed" (Clyde) - 4:06
18. "Almost Rosey" (Isabel) - 5:26
19. "Velvet Revolution"* (Pip) - 1:19
20. "Dark Side of the Sun" (Isabel) - 4:16
21. "Posse Bonus"* (Tori) - 1:45
22. "Smokey Joe" (Pip) - 4:19
23. "Dragon" (Santa) - 5:03

The bonus track "My Posse Can Do" (Santa) will accompany a DVD video feature of the same name on a special 2 disc release of the album. "Miracle" will be made available for download to fans who pre-order the album on iTunes and "Drive All Night" will be featured as an exclusive bonus track download for the Borders release .

(* denotes interlude tracks)

Credits

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• Isabel - Vocals on tracks 1, 7, 11, 18, 20.
• Clyde - Vocals on tracks 3, 9, 16, 17, background vocals on track 5.
• Pip - Vocals on tracks 4, 8, 12, 19, 22, background vocals on track 15.
• Santa - Vocals on tracks 6, 10, 12, 14, 23, background vocals on track 3.
• Tori Amos - Vocals on tracks 2, 5, 13, 15, 21, background vocals on track 20, Bösendorfer piano on tracks 1-7, 9-10, 12-23, electric piano on track 3, Fender Rhodes on tracks 7, 13, 23, upright piano on track 17, Wurlitzer on track 20, clavichord on track 22, mellotron on track 23.
• Matt Chamberlain - Drums & percussion on tracks 2-7, 9-10, 12-13, 15-18, 20-23.
• Jon Evans - Bass on tracks 2-7, 9-10, 12-13, 15-18, 20-23.
• Mac Aladdin - Electric guitar on tracks 2-8, 10, 12-13, 15-18, 20, 22-23, ukulele on tracks 7, 11, electric 6 and 12 string guitars on tracks 10, 13, 18, 20, mandolin on tracks 11, 19, acoustic guitar on tracks 11-12, 15-16, 20, ebow guitar on 22.
• Edward Bale, Matthew Elston, Holly Butler, Rosmary Bank - string quartet on tracks 9, 14.
• John Philip Shenale - string arrangement on tracks 9, 14, brass arrangement on track 14.
• Nick Hitchens - tuba, euphonium on track 14.

Chart performance

• Copies of the CD+DVD special edition of "American Doll Posse" were ruled to be ineligible for the UK sales chart due to the inclusion of free art cards depicting each of the Posse characters. According to an article on Amos's site everythingtori.com, Amos chose not to issue a reduced packaging version of the special edition (as had been done with Scarlet's Walk). So the UK chart position is based only upon sales of the single disc standard CD packaging version of the album.

Tour

The full band tour for American Doll Posse will commence on May 28, 2007 in Rome, Italy, and Amos will begin each concert on the tour 'in character' as one of the five alter-egos from the American Doll Posse, before taking over as herself a third into the show.

The first live performance of the new material took place on April 10, 2007 for Radio Eins in Berlin, Germany, where Amos performed six songs solo on piano - "Silent All These Years" and "Leather" from 1992's Little Earthquakes as well as four songs from the new album - "Velvet Revolution," "Father's Son," "Beauty of Speed," and "Almost Rosey."

The Australian Tour will commence sometime in September which will be followed by the US & Mexican Tour beginning in early October.

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