With the musical Jagged Little Pill about to hit Toronto, Morissette spoke to The Globe
At some point in the fevered weeks of 1994, as Alanis Morissette and her co-songwriter and producer, Glen Ballard, were spinning the gold ofin his Hollywood studio – they aimed to write and record one song a day – Ballard turned to her and asked, “Are you aware of what’s happening right now?” Meaning, did 20-year-old Morissette know she was not just pulling back the curtain on young women’s lives but shredding it; that she was articulating their angst, anger, delights and sexuality in a way...
“I said, ‘No, what’s happening? Other than me expressing myself?’” Morissette recalled earlier this month, during a 20-minute phone interview that burbled with laughter. “Here’s what I did know: I knew that I loved it. Every new song we were writing, I was lit up.” Her record label, Maverick , predicted the album would sell 125,000 copies, a number that blew Morissette’s mind. “I was like, ‘How am I going to deal with that?’ ” she says. “But there were prophetic images in my mind’s eye: I saw myself travelling around the planet. I saw myself performing and sweating. And I loved these songs. I knew I was going to show up big and honour them, and honour the place from which they came. I had no idea what was coming.”sold 33 million copies worldwide; hit No.
I’ve noticed this phenomenon among your detractors: 25 years ago, you were too angry. Now you’re too sereneIf you’re an artist in the public eye, by default you’re a social activist. People define themselves in accordance to you. So when someone says, “You shouldn’t be post-Catholic,” or “Now you’re too soft!” I meet that with, “Okay.”Thankfully, I can stand by the value systems that I was growing in when I wrote them, so I can still sing them with conviction. What I’m angry about has shifted.
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