Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette channels her struggles with miscarriages, depression and financial losses into Such Pretty Forks in the Road, her new album out on July 31
. Then, as now, her songs serve as a release. “There’s no way around pain,” she told Spin magazine as an unusually wise 21-year-old. “That’s part of the charm of being alive.”
There might be a tendency for the general public to wave off Morissette’s financial losses. She’s a rock star – easy come, easy go. This is an artist who tours arenas and who has seven Grammys to her credit.alone has sold more than 33 million copies worldwide. So she lost some money. Can we not chalk that up to, as someone once said, the charm of being alive?
Accepting Billboard’s Woman of the Year Award in 2016, Madonna called out ageism in the music business. “I stand before you as a doormat,” she said. “Oh, I mean, as a female entertainer. Thank you for acknowledging my ability to continue my career for 34 years in the face of blatant sexism and misogyny and constant bullying and relentless abuse.”
She was looking forward to the tour for less altruistic reasons as well. “Years ago, my band used to say that being out on the road was a vacation for them,” she says. “I never understood what they were talking about until I became a mom.”Broadway jukebox musical
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