Based on O'Connor's version of "You Do Something to Me" (a highlight on the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot & Blue), an album of pop standards performed with a big band might have actually worked. At times, Am I Not Your Girl? does work. "Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home" is quite chilling, and "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" doesn't deserv...

Based on O'Connor's version of "You Do Something to Me" (a highlight on the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot & Blue), an album of pop standards performed with a big band might have actually worked. At times, Am I Not Your Girl? does work. "Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home" is quite chilling, and "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" doesn't deserve O'Connor's sympathetic reading. However, O'Connor runs into trouble with acknowledged standards such as "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and songs heavily identified with other vocalists ("Gloomy Sunday"). She doesn't offer a new perspective on these songs, and her airy voice is buried by overwrought string arrangements. Am I Not Your Girl? would be just an admirable failure if it wasn't for the presence of O'Connor's bizarre two-minute rant on love, hatred, herself, and the Catholic Church, making an already strange album one of the weirdest releases by a major artist in years. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide