And it used to be really uncool to be an over-communicator, and now it is a boon for people and they are so appreciative with the level of accountability and the speed with which feedback is given, or answers, or responsivity. “I'm a systems thinker, I love leadership, I love collaboration, I love every role in a system being at the top of their game. “I think there are certain archetypal creatures-sounds like you're one of them-who are really research-based and just want to be as informed as possible,” Alanis said. “I always get that dreaded question, in the first meeting: Do you have a medical background?, at which point I have to be like ‘No, I just want to know.’ I want to know things, I'm curious.” “I'm also an over-preparer for those things,” I told her. So, for me I've tried every different version from heavily self-medicating, to formal allopathic medications, to now.”
“I have different doctors who laugh at the thickness of my files. “I had done tentacles of investigation on everything, from hormones to physicality, every rabbit hole one could go down to chase answers,” she told me. “I always remember working my ass off 24 hours a day and looking out and seeing the kids playing in the backyard and thinking, Well, I can't do that right now,” she said.īeing somewhat of a planner, Alanis was determined to take the reins. For Alanis, a lot of it stems from being a workhorse from such a young age.
ALANIS MORISSETTE THAT I WOULD BE GOOD MOVIE
I won’t list all the work she’s done between then and now (in addition to several subsequent albums, you may remember her as God in the 1999 Kevin Smith movie Dogma, or as the woman who confirmed Carrie Bradshaw’s heterosexuality on Sex and the City, or for her work on Weeds), other than to say she has maintained a level of production consistent with studio stars in the era of Louis B. Her (totally baller) album Under Rug Swept dropped in 2002, topping the Canadian charts and selling a million copies in the United States. Her American career has been wildly successful, as Jagged Little Pill (which sold 16 million copies in the United States, 33 million total) was followed up in 1998 by Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie and her performance on MTV Unplugged in 1999. Your Alanis Morissette, the Alanis Morissette who has one hand in her pocket and would go down on you in a theater, is an American.
She was a tiny dynamo with wild dark hair and a mezzo-soprano voice you couldn’t possibly overlook. She was our Tiffany, (and more frequently referred to as our Debbie Gibson) but much more. But the Alanis we had in Canada was never your Alanis Morissette. Some of these artists never meaningfully pop in the United States (The Tragically Hip, for example) and some of them manage to cross over (Alanis).
ALANIS MORISSETTE THAT I WOULD BE GOOD TV
There are many, many artists who are exceptionally famous in Canada because of being Canadian, and in part because of the CanCon regulations that require our radio and TV stations contain a certain percentage of content created by Canadians in our programming. Her second album, Now Is The Time, was a commercial disappointment, but signaled that Alanis was starting to chafe a bit with her image in Canada: She was experimenting with more complicated lyrics, trying out ballads. In 1992 she took home the Juno, the Canadian equivalent to a Grammy award, for Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year. Think of it as The Mickey Mouse Club, but if Tim Burton were in charge.Īlanis recorded her first song when she was 10, and then released her solo dance-pop album, Alanis, in 1991, at 17, cowriting every track. She started working at the age of 10, as an ensemble member of the very strange and very wonderful You Can’t Do That On Television, where as part of her job she would be doused with slime. Alanis was born in 1974 in Ottawa, our nation’s windy and generally unpleasant capital (hate-mail me as much as you want, it’s terrible there). To Canadians, she’s “Alanis,” and always will be. Let’s talk about the story of Alanis Morissette.