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Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette was one of the most unlikely stars of the mid-'90s. A former child actress turned dance-pop diva, Morissette later transformed herself into a confessional alternative singer/songwriter in the vein of Liz ... Alanis Morissette was one of the most unlikely stars of the mid-'90s. A former child actress turned dance-pop diva, Morissette later transformed herself into a confessional alternative singer/songwriter in the vein of Liz Phair and Tori Amos. However, she bolstered that formula with enough pop sensibility, slight hip-hop flourishes, and marketing savvy to become a superstar with her third album, Jagged Little Pill.
Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, and began playing piano and writing songs during her childhood years. She also joined the cast of You Can't Do That on Television, a children's television program. Using money that she earned on the show, Morissette recorded an independent single, "Fate Stay with Me," which was released when she was only ten years old. Morissette then concentrated on a musical career after leaving the show's cast, signing a music publishing contract when she was 14. The publishing contract led to a record deal with MCA Canada, and Morissette moved to Toronto before releasing her debut album, Alanis, in 1991.

Alanis was a collection of pop-oriented dance numbers and ballads that found success in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies and earning the singer a Juno Award for Most Promising Female Artist. However, no other country paid much attention to the record. In 1992, Morissette released Now Is the Time, an album that closely resembled her debut. Like its predecessor, it was a success in Canada, even if its sales did not match those of Alanis. Following the release of Now Is the Time, Morissette relocated to Los Angeles, where she met veteran producer Glen Ballard in early 1994. Ballard had previously written Michael Jackson's hit single "Man in the Mirror," produced Wilson Phillips' hit debut album, and worked with actor/musician David Hasselhoff. The two decided to work together, and despite their shared experience with mainstream pop, they opted instead to pursue an edgier, alternative rock-oriented direction. The result was Jagged Little Pill, which was released in 1995 on Madonna's label, Maverick Records.
On the strength of the angst-ridden single "You Oughta Know," Jagged Little Pill gained attention upon its release in the summer of 1995. The song soon received heavy airplay from alternative radio outlets and MTV, sending the album into the Top Ten and helping it achieve multi-platinum status. Jagged Little Pill's subsequent singles -- "Hand in My Pocket," "All I Really Want," "You Learn," and "Ironic" -- kept the album in the Top Ten for an astounding 69 weeks, and Morissette was nominated for six Grammys in early 1996. She won several of those awards, including Album of the Year and Song of the Year.

While she never managed to replicate the success of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette continued to release well-received albums into the 21st century. Her much-anticipated follow-up, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in the autumn of 1998, setting a record for the highest first-week sales by a female artist. An Unplugged set appeared a year later and featured a cover of the Police's "King of Pain," while 2002's Under Rug Swept saw Morissette writing and producing without the help of collaborators. So-Called Chaos followed in 2004. A year later, she took Jagged Little Pill on the road as an acoustic tour. Those tour dates led to the release of Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, an album originally (and tellingly) sold exclusively through Starbucks outlets. Morissette and her fans had grown up, and Collection -- an 18-track retrospective of her work -- followed in November 2005. But Morissette wasn't done, returning in 2008 with the brooding Flavors of Entanglement, which dealt with the emotional fallout from the dissolution of her engagement with actor Ryan Reynolds. In 2010, Morissette gave birth to her first child, Ever Imre, with rapper Mario “MC Souleye” Treadway, resulting in 2012's spry and hopeful Havoc and Bright Lights, which focused on spirituality, marriage, and motherhood.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
AllMusic.com
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Alanis Morissette – Hand In My Pocket
A lyric interpretation was added to Hand In My Pocket by okinlake11.
I think the song is just simply conveying how the world really works now a days. There are a lot of influential people and prestigious organization that you see in televisions and read in news...
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songs
Song Name		Comments
(Change Is) Never A Waste Of Time		1
20/20		4
21 Things I Want in a Lover		26
A Man		22
A Year Like This One		4
Ablaze		2
All I Really Want		41
An Emotion Away		1
Are You Still Mad?		13
Awakening Americans		7
Baba		24
Bent 4 U		6
Big Bad Love		0
Big Sur		1
Break		3
Can't Deny		1
Can't Not		17
Celebrity		0
Citizen of the Planet		13
Crazy (Seal cover)		22
Dear Prudence (The Beatles cover)		0
Death Of Cinderella		12
Diagnosis		0
Doth I Protest Too Much		13
Edge of Evolution		0
Eight Easy Steps		26
Empathy		2
Everything		24
Everything (Version 2)		1
Excuses		5
Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead cover)		23
Fate Stay With Me		3
Fear Of Bliss		7
Feel Your Love		0
Find The Right Man		2
Flinch		24
Forgive Me Love		5
Forgiven		37
Front Row		15
Giggling Again For No Reason		11
Give What You Got		0
Gorgeous		1
Guardian		8
Hand In My Pocket		56
Hands Clean		131
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (The Beatles cover)		8
Havoc		3
Head Over Feet		70
Heart Of The House		8
Her		0
Human Touch		0
I Remain		3
I Was Hoping		35
In Praise of The Vulnerable Man		5
Incomplete		6
Ironic		112
It's A Bitch To Grow Up		2
Jealous		0
Jekyll and Hyde		0
Joining You		43
Keep The Radio On		2
King Of Intimidation		4
King Of Pain		11
Knees of My Bees		6
Lens		2
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)		3
Limbo No More		5
London		8
Losing the Plot		0
Madness		6
Magical Child		0
Mary Jane		40
Missing the Miracle		1
Moratorium		5
Movement I: Mercy		2
Movement III: Hope		0
Movement IX: Faith		0
Movement VI: Innocence		0
My Humps (The Black Eyed Peas cover)		6
Narcissus		20
Nemesis		0
No		0
No Apologies		0
No Avalon		0
No Pressure Over Cappuccino		19
Norwegian Wood (The Beatles cover)		11
Not All Me		5
Not As We		34
Not The Doctor		43
Numb		3
Offer		6
Oh Yeah!		0
On My Own		2
On the Tequila		5
One		9
One Bad Apple		1
Orchid		9
Out Is Through		8
Party Boy		0
Pedestal		0
Perfect		38
Plastic		0
Pollyanna Flower		6
Pray For Peace		2
Precious Illusions		24
Princes Familiar		15
Purgatorying		4
Question		1
Rain		2
Real World		0
Reasons I Drink		0
Receive		2
Reckoning		0
Right Through You		29
Sandbox Love		0
Simple Together		19
Sister Blister		10
Smiling		0
So Pure		8
So Unsexy		26
So-Called Chaos		4
Sorry To Myself		6
Spineless		8
Spiral		0
Still		12
Straitjacket		8
Superman		1
Superstar Wonderful Weirdos		3
Surrendering		9
Sympathetic Character		8
Symptoms		2
Tapes		11
Thank U		68
Thank U (Demo)		0
That I Would Be Good		46
That Particular Time		11
The Couch		22
The Guy Who Leaves		4
The Time Of Your Life		0
There Are Worse Things I Could Do		5
These R The Thoughts		6
This Grudge		13
Til You		2
Too Hot		1
Torch		10
Underneath		17
Uninvited		144
Unprodigal Daughter		8
Unsent		25
UR		12
Utopia		10
Versions Of Violence		5
Wake Up		9
Walk Away		3
Weekends		1
When We Meet Again		0
Will You Be My Girlfriend?		0
Win and Win		2
Woman Down		1
Would Not Come		14
Wunderkind		11
You Learn		30
You Oughta Know		138
You Owe Me Nothing In Return		24
Your Congratulations		9
Your House		47

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