Like those immaculate hands of yours, huh? Well, my house is actually usually really, really superclean. I’m still working on it, and I probably did it just this morning.īut fees up, you do have someone else come to clean the house every once in a while. I aspire to not sweep anything under the rug, but I do it. So you do consider yourself in recovery, then? Oh, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing, it just matters what you’re being, so don’t worry about it. The good kind of touching - that they can do any time they want.Īs a recovering Canadian teen star yourself, give me your best advice for the world’s future-recovering-teen-stars of today. Well, they can touch me, but they can’t touch me in violent ways. I would never tolerate someone hitting me or touching me. I have my boundaries and my limits in my personal life. I prefer acceptance, because tolerate implies that you have this deep-seated buried resentment about something or toward someone, and acceptance just means you’re allowing the differences to just be what they are and you’re agreeing to disagree. Is there anything you won’t tolerate, young lady? You know the headline that will emerge from this story: “Alanis Pregnant!” Recently, you were presented with the Global Tolerance Award from Friends of the United Nations. So the pregnancy itself was great, but it was challenging because of all the other things that were going on at the same time.
It was like I was pregnant and I was building a house and I was renegotiating contracts, and I was dealing with a bunch of different changes in all my interpersonal relationships and people who I was touring with. It was all the other hats that I had to wear. It wasn’t the birth itself that was challenging for me. Would you describe making this album as having been a difficult birth? “Under Rug Swept” had a rather long gestation period. So, yeah, I believe I’m a little piece of God all the time.
#Alanis morissette hands clean movie#
You played God in Kevin Smith’s movie “Dogma.” At the height of “Jagged Little Pill” mania, did you ever believe you actually were God? That is like, immediately not going to happen for me. Someone who has a negative attitude about life. Someone who can’t listen to save his life. On “Under Rug Swept,” you list “21 Things I Want in a Lover.” Give me a few things that you definitely don’t want in a potential boy toy. Is it just a musical resonance? I guess a lot of people must be interpreting it in different ways. That song is so deeply personal and so specific that it begs the question of exactly what people are responding to. The more transparent, the more authentic I can be, the more liberated I feel and the less fearful. This is me telling my story.ĭo you feel better getting it out of your system?ĭefinitely. Have people been coming to you with their best guesses as to who the song is about?Ī couple of people have taken stabs, but just like with “You Oughta Know,” they’ve never gotten a denial from me and they’ve never gotten an affirmation, either. And figuratively, my conceptual hands are getting cleaner every day. Otherwise, turn it up, and pour yourself a Horlicks.Literally, damn clean. If you're of the opinion that ALL Alanis Morrissette records are spaced-out bollocks praying on the insecurities of early thirties middle class women, then this isn't for you. The verses are written from the point of view of the mystery person (in the past) and Alanis' replies (from the present) form the bridge and chorus. It's a complex confessional dialogue that rehashes an old, and by the sounds of it, rather dodgy relationship. She's back writing insanely catchy songs, primed for daytime radio play, that have deeper resonance that the usual garbage chucked out by Dr. She's releasing "Hands Clean", her best ever record. Whether we can blame her for this is another matter. She started dealing with her own problems in songs, not everyone else’s. Her last record, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie didn't do this, and thus suffered commercially. She could sum up the joy, pain, and angst in their lives in 13 tracks.
Why? They were decent enough tunes, granted, but their real appeal lay in the fact that people, particularly women, thought that Alanis understood all their problems perfectly. Alanis Morrissette sold 28 million copies of her debut album, "Jagged Little Pill".
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