“A fiction - or so I thought.”) A deal with MCA/Canada followed, which produced two dance-pop albums: 1991’s Alanis, which won a Juno (Canada’s Grammy equivalent) for Most Promising Female Artist, and 1992’s Now Is the Time, which belied that promise by selling a disappointing 50,000 copies.
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With her TV earnings, she formed her own record label and released her first single, “Fate Stay With Me.” (“It’s about someone leaving me and me trying to handle being alone,” she says. (Maybe because of this, when she became a Canadian pop star at sixteen, Morissette felt she had to deflect attention from her achievements in music to avoid antagonizing her high school classmates.)
As “Alanis,” she played the love interest of the two lead boys, thus becoming the recipient of lots of hate mail from her contemporaries. At ten she became a cast member on Nickelodeon’s You Can’t Do That on Television, a sort of preteen ensemble sketch show with postmodern leanings and a recurrent bit in which someone got doused with buckets of slime. Something of a musical child prodigy, Morissette began writing songs when she was nine. “I think the greatest gift you can give your parents as a grownup,” she says, “is to see them as grown-ups instead of the gods they seemed like when you were little.” In “The Couch” she imagines her father’s feelings in, and about, therapy in “Heart of the House” she honors her mother as the unsung (until now) silent center of the family. Her parents - Alan, a high school principal, and Georgia, a teacher - are, respectively, French-Canadian and Hungarian, and there are loving songs about both of them on Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. (Before that the family moved several times, including to Germany when Morissette was three.) She has two brothers, one older, one her twin. Morissette was born in Ottawa and grew up there after the age of six. She’s not angry in the punk-rock, fuck-you tradition she’s in touch with her anger. One of the things that sets Morissette apart from the other twentysomething singer-songwriters with whom she is often and inaccurately lumped is that she writes from the point of view of someone searching for meaning in a meaningful, rather than a meaningless, world. Although it addresses many of the same themes as Jagged Little Pill - the pressures and insecurities that underlie perfectionism the fallout from relationships that don’t work out the quest for self-understanding - the somewhat lusher, vaguely Eastern-influenced Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie does so from a more consciously spiritual, more consciously positive perspective. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is very clearly the creative companion piece to Jagged Little Pill - even its title references its predecessor’s first and best-known single, the obsession-inflected, last-word-having “You Oughta Know” (which, by mentioning oral sex, blinded the media to all other meaning, thereby setting a trend). On a more practical note, downstairs there is a pingpong table. She has the kind of poised, attentive posture usually seen only on dancers and shy woodland animals in animated Disney features.
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Her demeanor is serene in a way that makes you understand why someone (specifically, Chasing Amy director Kevin Smith) would cast her as God in a movie (specifically, the upcoming Dogma, which stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as angels who have been cast out of heaven). She has the remnants of some gold nail polish on her toes, and one bra strap, white, is showing. Her hair is pulled back, and she is wearing a light-purple tank top and jeans. Behind her a picture window frames sand, surf, sky and a very well-placed rock.
Alanis Morissette, 24, is sitting, yoga-style, on a futon on the floor of the light-filled, minimally furnished beach house she rents outside Los Angeles, where she also owns a home. Although it is figuratively the eve of the release of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - the much-anticipated follow-up to 1995’s multiplatinum, Grammy-and-other-award-winning Jagged Little Pill - it is literally daytime.
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