With her iconic breakthrough record “Jagged Little Pill” celebrating its 25th anniversary in June …What, her first album was no breakthrough? The single Too Hot hit the Canadian top ten back in 1991 . . .
Posted on 04/29/2020 12:08:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
In a new interview with U.K. publication The Sunday Times, Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette made some revelatory comments concerning the #MeToo movement in the music industry as she reflected on her decades-long career.
With her iconic breakthrough record “Jagged Little Pill” celebrating its 25th anniversary in June, Morissette — who began her career as a teen pop star — said that the “female rage” she famously exhibited in the album is needed now more than ever.
“Female rage gets such a bad rap, but it’s part of being human,” Morissette said. “Not punching someone in the face, but anger channelled into activism or — heaven forbid — raising your voice, or saying no, or protecting your kids, or being a feminist.”
Explaining that she was subject to exploitation, financial undermining and sexual abuse starting at the age of three, Morissette was vocal about the importance of women standing up for themselves within their own timeframe, and called out the stigma behind “waiting” to open up about abuse.
“First of all, they didn’t wait,” she said. “Second, they face the threat of losing their job, reputation, or not being believed. At best it’s swept under the rug, at worst you are admonished or fired.”
Though the film world experienced a wave of women coming forward against their abusers last year with the #MeToo Movement, Morissette claimed that the problem is much larger within the music industry.
“It hasn’t even begun in the music industry. Almost every woman in the music industry has been assaulted, harassed, raped. It’s ubiquitous — more in music, even, than film,” Morissette said. “What, sex, drugs and rock’n’roll? By definition it’s crass, sweaty and aggressive. But it’s only a matter of time before it has its own explosion of stories.”
Morissette’s ninth album, “Such Pretty Forks in the Road,” was originally set for release May 1 but has been postponed until the fall due to the coronavirus pandemic.
With her iconic breakthrough record “Jagged Little Pill” celebrating its 25th anniversary in June …What, her first album was no breakthrough? The single Too Hot hit the Canadian top ten back in 1991 . . .
Back in the 90s, if you found your girlfriend listening to Alanis Morissette, it was probably time to break up with her. She was almost certainly going to trash your room and key your car either way so...
Certainly from 1995 onwards.
If your girlfriend was into the kind of music Morissette put out from 1991 to 1994, way different personality then.
She probably makes crappy sandwiches.
That's kind of like a boxer bragging about being Utah State Golden Gloves champion. It might be impressive for Utah but the rest of the world could give a rat's you-know-what unless he happens to start showing results nationally.
lol
Iron my shirts.
Well, she’s Canadian, so she probably makes poutine, not sandwiches?
Damn i should have moved from NYC when i boxed!!
I coulda had class.
I coulda been a contender.
I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it...
Er, got carried away sorry :)
She is a very serious!y disturbed woman. Don’t believe me? Listen to her lyrics. I don’t doubt that something probably happened to her personally.
We already have enough disturbed people in this country. We did not need to import more from Canada.
I was in elementary school when her album came out...didn’t understand what all her lyrics meant but let’s be real:
Her music is WAY WAY WAY better than the stuff that’s out right now!
She basically said that something bad happened to her.
Good for her for speaking out.
‘We already have enough disturbed people in this country.”
That goes without sayin’ and MANY of them are elected officials.
I was a little older than you when she made it big and I've always liked Alanis Morissette. I saw one of her live concerts on TV and was surprised at how "rock" she is compared to today's music.
FWIW, she received a then unprecedented deal for "Jagged Little Pill" when she signed on Madonna's Maverick record label, earning a whole dollar for every CD sold (most contracts prior paid the artist in dimes and nickels).
She became very rich, very fast.
These are all very bad things, although I'm not sure what "financial undermining" of a three-year-old means. She was in the music business at the age of three?
If I were Czar, and I mean real Czar, not some wimpy Obama czar, I would ban voice autotune. That would weed out a whole lot of bad stuff overnight.
I remember reading an article that this latest release angered the femi-nazi/lezbo crowd since it wasn't a total hate-fest from start to finish like the previous 2. They didn't appreciate that Alanis could write songs that had a positive message instead of "all men are scum and must die".
Thank you, India
I despise autotune. They took Roger from Zapp’s idea and bastardized it.
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