"Abnormally Attracted to Sin" ... and the Financial Crisis

On her tenth studio album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin (released on 5/19/09), Amos offers us more thought provoking lyrics. The subjects she chooses to write about are women’s sexual empowerment, women’s inequality in religion and life, suicide and her most favorite subject, religion. She often walks a fine line of a good Christian woman and a tempting devilish vixen.

Amos is known for her emotionally heavy songs about topics such as sexual abuse and religion and her 10th studio album that was released on May 19, is no different. It features songs on difficult topics including a suicidal mother and how relationships are affected by pressure from events like the financial crisis.

"The world has changed completely, it seems, in the past two years. The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe, ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down," Amos told Reuters in an interview.

"The record is asking all kinds of questions about power -- how do we define it? Because if it's with money then we're all in trouble. And what is success? What are we attracted to? Because it kind of needs to change," she said.

Amos, who has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide, said men and women who had lost their jobs or homes or were in some other way hurting because of the financial crisis would be questioning their value in their relationship.

Amos, who has an eight-year-old daughter, said she also felt the need to explore the role that mothers play in hard times and how they cope, or don't cope, as is the case in the song "Maybe California" about a lonely suicidal mother.

Music magazine Billboard describes Amos as "a force to be reckoned with on the new album, which blends rock beats with flashes of the avant-garde," while website Drowned In Sound says "this is almost a wonderful album. But like some other Tori Amos records, it's an album that could easily have been two."

FYI: The "Abnormally Attracted to Sin" deluxe edition includes an accompanying 'visualettes' that provide a visual narrative for the songs.

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"Abnormally Attracted to Sin" ... and the Financial Crisis