Alanis' Bubblegum Past, Relived
Morissette's early albums to be reissued next year
Alanis Morissette fans may get to hear her long-lost first
two albums, Alanis (1991) and Now Is the Time (1992),
early in the next millennium.
Essentially dance pop tunes recorded when Morissette was
Canada's answer to Tiffany, the albums were previously
released only in the Great White North. Rumors had swirled
that Maverick Records (her current label) conspired
with MCA Canada (her former one) to keep them out
of the States due to embarrassment.
"That's not really true," Morissette says. "When I
released Jagged Little Pill in 1995, they were talking
about releasing all three of them at the same time,
and I didn't want that to happen, because I really
wanted Jagged Little Pill to stand on its own.
"But I loved those albums, although I certainly
couldn't sing any of those songs now, for obvious
reasons."
Alanis went platinum in Canada and earned a Juno,
that country's equivalent of a Grammy.
Morissette says she has no fixed U.S. release date
for the albums, "but at this point in time, I'd love to
release something to show how I made music when
I was really young."
Morissette is calling from Florida, on her "5 1/2
Weeks" headlining tour with Tori Amos. Amos is the
very artist Morissette credits with inspiring the
discovery of her current musical style.
"When I was living in Toronto and was prepared,
emotionally, to write from a more honest place and
actually back that up, I heard 'Little Earthquakes'
and was really heartened by hearing that,"
Morissette says. "Our music is pretty different, but
it's created from the same place. So I think that, in
and of itself, makes it so that we can enjoy each
other's music."
Morissette says she is performing a new song on
the tour called "Still." Recorded for the soundtrack
to Dogma, the November-slated Kevin Smith
religious comedy in which Morissette plays God, it
may be on the radio as early as Halloween.
Morissette describes "Still" as "not a ballad but not
a hardcore song" addressing the Supreme Being's
view of humanity.
"I don't consider myself to be part of any religion
now," she says, "although I was brought up a
Catholic, and that probably reflects in my music."
After all the outward catharsis on Pill, and all the
inward contemplation on last year's Supposed
Former Infatuation Junkie, Morissette envisions that
her third U.S. album -- which she hasn't begun
writing yet -- will peer outward again, only from a
more psychologically healthy perspective.
"I think there's been an element of my looking
outside of myself a little more," she says. "And my
albums are about expressing where I'm at in any
period of time.
"These days I feel fundamentally peaceful."
--
gender is just an excuse, relationship shouldn't just be an excuse,
love is often an excuse, although sometimes these excuses are all
we have to hold onto,
death is the reason and living is the celebration
- Beth Orton
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