Am I Not Your Girl?

Infobox Album | Name = Am I Not Your Girl?
Type = Cover album
Artist = Sinéad O'Connor


Released = September 22, 1992
Recorded = National Edison Studios
Genre = Swing
Length = 47:38
Label = Ensign/Chrysalis
Producer = Phil Ramone and Sinéad O'Connor
Reviews =
*Allmusic (2/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ml6m968o3ep2 link]
*Robert Christgau B [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Sinead link]
*"Rolling Stone" (2/5) [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/232969 link]
Last album = "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"
(1990)
This album = "Am I Not Your Girl?"
(1992)
Next album = "Universal Mother"
(1994)

"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 Booklet of "Am I Not Your Girl"]

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." , led to Sinéad losing much of the commercial momentum her career had built up until then.

The album sold 1,500,000 copies worldwide.

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