Alanis Morissette

At 49 years old, Alanis Morissette has this physical status:

Music career

Morissette's first demo, "Fate Stay with Me," was recorded by Lindsay Thomas Morgan of Marigold Studios in Toronto and engineered by Rich Dodson of Canadian classic rock band The Stampeders, was released. In a break in the label's headquarters in October 1989, a second demo tape was recorded on cassette and sent to Geffen Records, but the tape has never been heard as a result of a break in 1989.

Morissette's debut album, Alanis, was released in Canada only in 1991 by MCA Records Canada. Morissette co-wrote every song on the album with its producer, Leslie Howe. The dance-pop album debuted platinum, and its first single, "Too Hot," debuted at number 20 on the RPM singles chart. "Walk Away" and "Feel Your Love," two of the top 40 hits, according to subsequent singles "Walk Away" and "Feel Your Love". Morissette's fame, style of music, and appearance, especially her hair, led her to her being referred to as the Debbie Gibson of Canada; comparisons to Tiffany were also common. She appeared on stage for rapper Vanilla Ice during the same period. Morissette was nominated for three awards in 1992: Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year (which she received), Single of the Year, and Best Dance Recording (both for "Too Hot").

Now Is the Time, her second album, a ballad-driven record that featured less glitzy production than Alanis and more thoughtful lyrics, debuted in 1992. Morissette produced the songs with Leslie Howe, the album's designer, and Serge Côté. "People could go, hiss, hiss, this guy's like another Tiffany or whatever," she sang of on the album.' But the way I look at it: people will like your next album if it's a kick-ass one." As with Alanis (1991), Now Is the Time (1992) was released in Canada and released three top-40 singles, including "An Emotion Away," the minor adult contemporary hit "Change Is) "A Waste of Time." However, the industry regarded it as a commercial failure, considering that it sold just over half the number of copies of her first album. Morissette was left without a major label contract after her two-album deal with MCA Records Canada concluded.

MCA Music Publishing's editor, Leeds Levy, introduced Morissette's manager Scott Welch in 1993. Welch told HitQuarters that she was captivated by her "spectacular voice," her name, and her songs. She was still living at home with her parents at the time. Together, they decided it would be best for her future to move to Toronto and start writing with other people. Morissette moved from Ottawa to Toronto after graduating from high school. When she met producer and songwriter Glen Ballard, she believed in her talent enough to allow her to use his studio. Morissette's first internationally published album, Jagged Little Pill, was written and produced by the two, and by the spring of 1995, she had signed a Maverick Records contract. She learned how to play guitar in the same year. Any brand they approached, other than Maverick, refused to sign Morissette, according to manager Welch.

In 1995, Maverick Records first released Jagged Little Pill internationally. The album was supposed to sell well enough for Morissette to make a sequel, but the situation quickly changed when KROQ-FM, Los Angeles's most popular rock radio station, started playing "You Oughta Know," the album's first single, starring Flea and Dave Navarro. The song's explicit lyrics were immediately recognizable, and MTV and MuchMusic's following music video went into high rotation.

The album's other hits, as well as the success of "You Oughta Know," helped propel Jagged Little Pill to the top of the charts. "All I Really Want" and "Hand in My Pocket" followed, while Morissette's fourth U.S. single, "Ironic," was followed, making it Morissette's biggest hit. For more than a year, the fifth and sixth singles, "You Learn" and "Head over Feet," stayed in the top 20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The Jagged Little Pill sold more than 16 million copies in the United States, and it has gone 33 million worldwide, making it the second best-selling album by a female artist (behind Shania Twain's Come On Over).

Morissette's success in Canada, where the album was certified twelve times platinum and produced four RPM chart-toppers: "Hand in My Pocket," "Ironic," "You Learn," and "Head Over Feet" are among the album's four RPM chart-toppers. The album was also a best-seller in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Morissette's (1995) success with Jagged Little Pill (1995) was credited with opening doors for female singers like Tracy Bonham, Fiona Apple, Meredith Brooks, Shakira, Pink, Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, and Florence Welch. She was chastised for collaborating with producer and ostensible image-maker Ballard, and her previous disco pop albums were also a hindrance to her admirability. In 1996, Morissette and the album received six Juno Awards: Album of the Year ("You Oughta Know"), Female Vocalist of the Year, Best Rock Album, and Best Rock Album. She was named after the 16th British Awards for the International Breakthrough Act. She received Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Song at the 38th Annual Grammy Awards in 1996 (both for "You Oughta Know"), Best Rock Album, and Album of the Year.

She was also named for Best New Artist in a Video and Video of the Year at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards, as well as Best Female Video in a Video and Video of the Year, and was also nominated for Viewer's Choice, Best Direction in a Video and Video of the Year. Both awards were given to Ironic's video. "Your House" came first, rather than "Your House."

Morissette embarked on an 18-month world tour in favor of Jagged Little Pill, beginning in small clubs and ending in major theaters following the album's release in 1995. Taylor Hawkins, a member of the Foo Fighters, was the tour's drummer and Radiohead appeared as the first act in 1996. At the 1997 Juno Awards, where Morissette also received both the National Achievement Award and Best Music Video Short Form, "Ironic" was nominated for two separate Grammy Awards—Record of the Year and Best Music Video Short Form. The video Jagged Little Pill, Live, which Morissette co-directed, was about the majority of her tour's earnings, winning the Best Music Video Long Form award in 1998.

Morissette began practicing Iyengar Yoga for balance after the tour. She went to India for six weeks after the last show in December 1996, accompanied by her mother, two aunts, and two relatives. The trip left her with an unforgettable memory and laid the foundation for her new album's design.

Morissette appeared on Ringo Starr's cover of "Drift Away" on his 1998 album, Vertical Man, and "Don't Drink the Water" and "Spoon" on the Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets, he was a guest vocalist on Ringo Starr's cover of "Drift Away." "Uninvited" is her version of the 1998 film City of Angels' soundtrack. Despite the fact that the album was never released as a single in the United States, it was highly coveted in the categories of Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and was nominated for Best Written for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media at the 1999 Grammy Awards. Morissette's fourth album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which she wrote and produced with Glen Ballard, appeared in 1998.

On the initial launch, the label had hoped to sell 1 million copies of the album on the first week, but instead, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 469,000 copies, a record for an artist's first-week album. The wordy, personal lyrics on Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie alienated many followers, and after the album sold much less than Jagged Little Pill (1995), many of them regarded it as an example of the sophomore jinx. However, it received rave reviews, including a four-star review from Rolling Stone. It was named for Best Album in Canada and was awarded four times platinum. The album's sole major international hit single, "Thank U," was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance; Morissette nude in the music video caused mild controversy. Morissette directed the videos for "Unsent" and "So Pure," which received both the MuchMusic Video Award for Best Director and the Juno Award for Best Video of the Year.

Morissette performed on "Mercy" where she paid tribute to her roots by appearing in "Hope," "Innocence," and "Faith," four tracks on Jonathan Elias' masterpiece The Prayer Cycle, which was released in 1999. Alanis Unplugged, a live acoustic album that was shot on MTV Unplugged, was released the same year. It featured tracks from her previous albums as well as four new songs, including "King of Pain" (a cover of The Police album) and "No Pressure over Cappuccino," which Morissette wrote with her main guitar player, Nick Lashley. On hot adult contemporary radio in the United States, the recording of the Supposed Former Innocent Junkie track "That I Would Be Good" released as a single became a minor hit. Morissette performed a live version of her song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album Live in the X Lounge II in 1999. At Woodstock 1999, she was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the 2001 Grammy Awards for her live broadcast of "So Pure." Morissette performed on the 5 and a Half Weeks Tour in 1999 in favor of Amos' album To Venus and Back (1999).

Morissette appeared on Stephanie McKay's "Excess," which is on his album Blowback, in 2001. In February 2002, Morissette's fifth studio album, Under Rug Swept, was released. She took on the role of sole writer and producer of an album for the first time in her career. The majority of the instruments were played by her band, consisting of Joel Shearer, Nick Lashley, Chris Chaney, and Gary Novak; additional contributions came from Eric Avery, Dean DeLeo, Flea, and Meshell Ndegeocello.

Rug Swept debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, eventually going platinum in Canada and selling one million copies in the United States. Morissette won the Juno Award for Producer of the Year for her work on "Hands Clean" and "So Unsexy," which topped the Canadian Singles Chart and received a lot of radio coverage. "Precious Illusions" was released as a second single, but it had no success outside of Canada or U.S. hot AC radio.

Morissette released the compilation Feast on Scraps, which included a DVD of live concert and backstage documentary film shot directed by her, as well as a CD containing eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions later this year. Its predecessor, "Simple Together," has sold approximately 70,000 copies in the United States and was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Music DVD of the Year.

Morissette appeared in a bathrobe, but she went on to reveal a flesh-colored bodysuit in response to Janet Jackson's breast-flash attack during the Super Bowl XXVIII halftime show. In May 2004, Morissette's sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos, was released. She wrote the songs on her own and co-produced the album with Tim Thorney and pop music producer John Shanks. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart with mostly critical feedback, and Morissette's lowest seller in the United States, with Morissette's lowest seller. "Everything" was a hit on Adult Top 40 radio in the United States and was moderately well-received elsewhere, especially in Canada, although it did not make it to the top 40 on the US charts, despite its struggling to crack the top 40. It's hot 100. Since the first line of the song includes the word "asshole," American radio stations are reluctant to air it, and the single version was replaced with the word "nightmare." The sad fact that US radio networks had requested her to change a word in the song was unaffected, with Morissette claiming at the 2004 Juno Awards in Canada: "I am overjoyed to be back in my homeland, the true North, fast, and censor-free." Two other singles, "Out Is Through" and "Eight Easy Steps," fared much worse, although "Eight Easy Steps," a U.S. club, was a hit. Morissette began a non-profit environmental group Reverb, alongside long-time friends and fellow Canadians Barenaked Ladies.

Morissette's Jagged Little Pill (1995), a tenth anniversary of Jagged Little Pill (1995), released a studio acoustic version in June 2005. The album was only released through Starbucks' Hear Music retail store model in their coffee shops for a six-week run. The limited availability resulted in a controversy between Maverick Records and HMV North America, who retaliated by excluding Morissette's other albums from sale for the duration of Starbucks' exclusive six-week offer. As of November 10, Jagged Little Pill Acoustic had sold 372,000 copies in the United States, as well as a video for "Hand in My Pocket" on VH1 in America. Morissette was in charge of two months in mid-2005, with Morissette appearing in tiny theatre venues. Morissette was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame during the same period. In the fall of 2005, the singer appeared on The Rolling Stones for a few dates.

In late 2005, Morissette unveiled the greatest hits album, Alanis Morissette: The Collection. The lead single and only new track, a ripoff of Seal's "Crazy," was a top 40 and dance hit in the United States but not so successful elsewhere. A limited edition of The Collection includes a DVD containing videos of two unreleased songs from Morissette's 1996 Can't Not Tour: "King of Intimidation" and "Can't Wait." (A redesigned version of "Can't Wait" had also appeared on Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.) The DVD also contains a ninety-second clip of the single "Joining You" from the unreleased video. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the Collection had sold 373,000 copies in the United States as of November 2010. Morissette contributed the song "Wunderkind" to the soundtrack of the film "The Lion, the Wardrobe," in the United States, and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Morissette's first year in music featured her own songs, with the exception of an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in January when she appeared "Wunderkind" on "Wunderkind."

Morissette released a tongue-in-cheek copy of The Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps," which she performed in a mournful voice and just then with a piano. As of February 15, 2009, the accompanying YouTube-hosted video, in which she dances provocatively with a group of guys and hits the ones that act as if attempting to reach her breasts, had 16,465,653 views as of February 15, 2009. Morissette did not have time to explain the song, and it was speculated that she did it as a joke on April Fools' Day. Ferguson, a Black Eye Peas vocalist, sent Morissette a buttocks-shaped cake with an encouraging note. She finally discussed how the video came to be on the brink of her new album, describing how she became so much emotionally involved while recording her latest songs one after the other, and that one day she wished she could do a simple song like "My Humps" and the joke took on a life of its own.

Morissette appeared on stage for The Nightwatchman, a.k.a. In April 2007, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave appeared at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles. In Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Ottawa Senators and the Anaheim Ducks in Ottawa, Ontario, June, she performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "O Canada," the American and Canadian national anthems. (The NHL has requested that arenas in both the United States and Canadian national anthems be able to compete at games involving teams from both countries.) Morissette appeared as a special guest on a tour with Matchbox Twenty and Mutemath in early 2008.

Flavors of Entanglement, Morissette's seventh studio album, was released in mid-2008. She has announced that she will embark on a North American headlining tour in late 2008, but that in the meantime she will be touring the country, performing at shows and festivals, as well as making television and radio appearances. "Underneath," the album's first video, which was submitted to the 2007 Elevate Film Festival, was one of the festival's goals, which was to produce documentaries, music videos, narratives, and shorts about human awareness on the planet. Morissette's new song, "Not as We," was released on October 3, 2008.

Morissette appeared on "Arrival" with Zap Mama, and she has released an acoustic version of her song "Still" as part of Music for Relief's compilation in support of the 2010 Haiti earthquake tragedy. She contributed to the release of "Versions of Violence" on the album Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace in 2008 to spread peace. Morissette has also published "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," the 1984 Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias hit "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" re-written as "To All the Boys I've Loved Before." Nelson played rhythm guitar on the album. Morissette's album "I Remain" was released in April 2010, which was written for the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time soundtrack. The season finale of American Idol, Morissette, featured a duet of her song "You Oughta Know" with Runner Up Crystal Bowersox on May 26, 2010. After all preparation for Flavors was complete, Morissette left Maverick Records.

Morissette appeared at the American Music Awards on November 20, 2011. When asked about the new album during a short interview, she said she had recorded 31 songs and that the album would "probably be out next year, certainly [in] summertime." During the X-Factor's performance finale, Morissette performed a duet of "Uninvited" with finalist Josh Krajcik on December 21, 2011.

Morissette began a European tour in 2012, according to Alanis.com. On a Starbucks compilation titled Every Mother Counts, a new song named "Magical Child" appeared in early May 2012.

Morissette revealed on her Facebook page on May 2, 2012 that her eighth studio album, Havoc and Brilliant Lights, would be released in August 2012 under new brand Collective Sounds, distributed by Sony's RED Distribution. Billboard announced the date as August 28 on the same day, and later revealed that the album would have twelve tracks. "Guardian," the album's lead single, was released on iTunes on May 15, 2012, and it made radio airwaves four days before this. The single had minor success in North America, charting the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 Singles in the United States and Canada, and almost achieving the top 40 singles in Canada. Nonetheless, the song was a hit in several European countries. The album's second single, "Receive," was released in early December of the year.

Morissette was named on the UCLA Spring Sing's George and Ira Gershwin Award at Pauley Pavilion on May 16, 2014. The LP album "Big Sur" was released on her website in honor of her fortieth birthday. The Intimate and Acoustic tour's ten-show Intimate and Acoustic tour began on July 25, 2014.

On the twentieth anniversary of Jagged Little Pill's introduction, a new four-disc collector's edition was released on October 30, 2015. The four-disc set includes remastered audio of the original album as well as a complete disc of ten unreleased demos from Morissette's archives, providing a deeper and more personal look at the classic album. A previously unreleased concert from 1995 as well as 2005's Jagged Little Pill Acoustic are among the other items included.

Morissette teased a song titled "I Miss The Band" when on tour in August 2017. "Reest," a new song that was not available on May 20,21, was performed at the Linkin Park and Friends in honor of the Chester Bennington memorial concert on October 27, 2017. She announced in November 2017 that she and Michael Farrell were writing 22 songs together.

During her 2018 tour, Morissette performed "Ablaze" on March 16, 2018. After a six-year absence, she revealed on social media that she had written 23 new songs and teased at a new one with the hashtag "#alanismorissettenewrecord2019." The writing session's songs include "Reckoning," "Diagnosis," "Her," and "Legacy." The American Repertory Theater opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 5, 2018, Jagged Little Pill, a jukebox musical starring Morissette's songs, premiered. Morissette performed two new songs on "Smiling" and "Predator." The musical made its way to Broadway in the fall of 2019, with previews on November 3 and the opening on December 5 at the Broadhurst Theatre. The production received fifteen Tony Award nominations, the most of any production this season.

Morissette went into the Los Angeles studio in June 2019. She had written all of the songs, and "Smiling" would be included on the new album, which is expected to be released early 2020, in an interview. Alex Hope and Catherine Marks' new album was revealed on August 8, 2019. Morissette announced her first studio album in eight years, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, on December 1, 2020. "Reasons I Drink," the first single off the record, was released on December 2, 2019.

Morissette appeared on Halsey's album "Alanis' Interlude" on January 17, 2020. She revealed that her forthcoming album was mixed by Chris Dugan on February 5, 2020. On February 20, 2020, the album's second single, "Smiling," was released. Morissette's release of the album was postponed due to fears of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was announced on April 15, 2020. It was announced on July 31, 2020, but not all.

Morissette was originally scheduled to embark on a world tour in June 2020 with Garbage and Liz Phair, who were both first introduced to Morissette in 1999 during the Junkie Tour. The former canceled her appearances in North America and was replaced by Cat Power instead. The tour was postponed until summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Beth Orton has announced that she will travel to the United Kingdom and Europe in 2022.

Morissette premiered the new track Safety-Empath in Paradise on May 18, 2022. The Storm Before the Calm, a new collection of meditation music, was released on June 17, 2022.

Acting career

Morissette appeared in five episodes of the children's television show You Can't Do That on Television in 1986. In 1985 and 1988, she appeared on stage with the Orpheus Musical Theatre Society.

Morissette returned to acting in 1999, for the first time since 1993, appearing as God in Kevin Smith's comedy Dogma and contributing the song "Still" to its soundtrack. Morissette portrayed God in Smith's latest film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, to literally close the book on the View Askewniverse. She appeared in the hit HBO comedy Sex and the City, as well as Curb Your Enthusiasm, and appeared in the film The Vain Monologues, where she appeared briefly in the Brazilian hit soap operas Celebridade and Malhaço.

Morissette appeared in The Exonerated in late 2003, as Sunny Jacobs, a death row prisoner released after proof established that she was innocent. Morissette would reprise her role in The Exonerated in London from May 23 to May 28, according to MTV News in April 2006.

She rose to prominence with the debut of Cole Porter's biography De-Lovely, in which she performed the song "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" and appeared on television for a short time. She appeared on Degrassi: The Next Generation with Dogma co-star Jason Mewes and producer Kevin Smith in February 2005. Morissette, who later engaged with Ryan Reynolds, made a cameo appearance as "herself" as a former Reynolds customer in the film Just Friends in 2005. This scene was removed from the theatrical release and is only available on DVDs.

She appeared in an episode of Lifetime's Lovespring International as a homeless woman named Lucinda, three episodes of FX's Nip/Tuck, playing a lesbian named Poppy, and the mockumentary-documentary Pittsburgh as herself in 2006.

Morissette appeared in eight episodes of Weeds, playing Dr. Audra Kitson, a "no-nonsense prosthetist" who treats pregnant main character Nancy Botwin. In July 2009, her first episode appeared on television.

Morissette returned to the stage in early 2010 in An Oak Tree, a Los Angeles experimental play. The show was a sell-out. Morissette was confirmed to be in the cast of season six of Weeds once more in April 2010. Dr. Audra Kitson appeared on television in April 2010.

Morissette also appeared in a film version of Philip K. Dick's book Radio Free Albemuth. In an unexpected recovery from lymphoma, Morissette portrays Sylvia, an ordinary woman. Morissette wrote that she is "a huge fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and imaginative books" and that she is "blessed to be in possession of Sylvia, as well as being a part of this tale being told in film.

In one episode of NBC's Up All Night on February 16, 2012, she appeared as Amanda, a former bandmate of main character Ava Alexander (played by Maya Rudolph). Rudolph was elected minister for Morissette's wedding, with both players performing the explicit version of their hit hip hop song "Back It Up (Beep Beep)."

In the film The Price of Desire, directed by Mary McGuckian, Morissette played Marissa Damia, the lover of architect and designer Eileen Gray.

Morissette was introduced as a recurring character on adult-animation series The Great North in 2021.

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