Am I Not Your Girl?

Am I Not Your Girl? is the third studio album by Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor. It is a collection of covers of mostly jazz standards, which O'Connor describes as "the songs I grew up listening to [and] that made me want to be a singer". The album title comes from the song "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home". The album is dedicated to the people of New York City and especially the homeless whom O'Connor met at St. Mark's Place. The album did not gain much critical acclaim or commercial success, in part because its decades-old songs deviated sharply from O'Connor previous work in the pop-rock and art-rock genres such as her hugely successful I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. The muted reaction to the album led to O'Connor's career losing much of the commercial momentum she had built up to that point, especially when coupled with the album's confessional liner notes and the Garden State Arts Center controversy when she refused to perform after the US national anthem. The album's promotion was marked by a controversial appearance on Saturday Night Live, where O'Connor tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II, leading to public and media scrutiny. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_No...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)