Editing Alanis Morissette (section)

=== 1994–1999: ''Jagged Little Pill'' and ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' ===
In 1993, Morissette's publisher Leeds Levy at MCA Music Publishing introduced her to manager Scott Welch.<ref name="hitquarters.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_SWelch.html |title=Interview With Scott Welch |publisher=[[HitQuarters]] |date=August 6, 2002 |access-date=April 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609212424/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview%2Fopar%2Fintrview_SWelch.html |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Welch told [[HitQuarters]] he was impressed by her "spectacular voice", her character and her lyrics. At the time she was still living at home with her parents. Together they decided it would be best for her career to move to Toronto and start writing with other people.<ref name="hitquarters.com"/> After graduating from high school, Morissette moved from Ottawa to [[Toronto]].<ref name="PeopleintheNews" /> Her publisher funded part of her development and she spent her time there composing and rehearsing with a number of other musicians, looking to find good chemistry with a potential songwriting partner for her next album.  Although a number of songs came out of these sessions, none would make an album cut and no lasting partnerships were formed. In a subsequent move to Los Angeles, however, she met producer and songwriter [[Glen Ballard]], who believed in her talent enough to let her use his studio; their partnership was a stellar songwriting match, with Ballard supporting Alanis' sound rather than trying to shape or mold it to his own tastes.<ref name="PeopleintheNews" /><ref name="hitquarters.com"/> In her newfound freeness of creative spirit, the duo wrote and recorded Morissette's first internationally released album, ''[[Jagged Little Pill]]'', and by the spring of 1995, she had signed a deal with Maverick Records. In the same year she learned how to play guitar. According to manager Welch, every label they approached, apart from Maverick, declined to sign Morissette.<ref name="hitquarters.com"/>
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Maverick Records released ''Jagged Little Pill'' internationally in June 1995. The album was expected only to sell enough for Morissette to make a follow-up, but the situation improved quickly when [[KROQ-FM]], an influential Los Angeles [[modern rock]] radio station, began playing "[[You Oughta Know]]", the album's first single, featuring [[Flea (musician)|Flea]] and [[Dave Navarro]] from the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]].<ref name="SongwriterUniverseMagazine">{{cite news | last=Kawashima | first=Dale | url=http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/alanis.html | title=Great Publishing Story: John Alexander & Alanis Morissette | work=Songwriter Universe Magazine | access-date=June 11, 2010 | archive-date=June 15, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615034754/http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/alanis.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The song instantly garnered attention for its scathing, explicit lyrics,<ref name="PeopleintheNews" /> and a subsequent music video went into heavy rotation on MTV and [[MuchMusic]]. In a 2008 interview, [[Dave Coulier]] said he was the ex-boyfriend who inspired "You Oughta Know"; in the 2021 documentary ''[[Jagged (film)|Jagged]]'', Morissette denied the song is about Coulier.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rife |first=Katie |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Why has Alanis Morissette denounced this documentary about her life? |url=https://www.avclub.com/why-has-alanis-morissette-denounced-this-documentary-ab-1847680838 |website=AV Club}}</ref><ref name="CoulierSpeaks">{{cite web |last=Silverman |first=Stephen M. |author2=Midler, Caryn |date=August 9, 2008 |title=Olsens, Alanis part of Coulier's house |url=http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=c45ecf89-0be3-4177-825c-9206a0b775be |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101012134256/http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/entertainment/story.html?id=c45ecf89-0be3-4177-825c-9206a0b775be |archive-date=October 12, 2010 |access-date=November 20, 2010 |work=[[Calgary Herald]] |location=Canada}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 3, 2008 |title=Alanis Morissette reveals secret self in songs |url=http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/features/music/story.html?id=d9203cdb-73c0-4975-824e-ae182422d7ee |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505120510/http://www2.canada.com/vancouversun/features/music/story.html?id=d9203cdb-73c0-4975-824e-ae182422d7ee |archive-date=May 5, 2012 |access-date=October 18, 2011 |work=[[Vancouver Sun]] |location=Canada}}</ref> In a 2019 appearance on [[Watch What Happens Live]], Alanis Morissette mentioned that multiple people have taken credit for being the inspiration behind her song "You Oughta Know". She stated, "I just think: If you're going to take credit for a song where I'm singing about someone being a douche or an asshole, you might not want to say, 'Hey! That's me!'" Morissette described the song as being written out of "devastation", reflecting a range of emotions that women often feel but are told to suppress, such as anger and sadness.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cornish |first=Natalie |date=October 4, 2019 |title=Alanis Morissette Addresses Rumors "You Oughta Know" Is About Ex Dave Coulier |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1100258/alanis-morissette-addresses-rumors-you-oughta-know-is-about-ex-dave-coulier |access-date=September 2, 2024 |website=E! Online}}</ref>

After the success of "[[You Oughta Know]]", the album's other hits helped send ''Jagged Little Pill'' to the top of the charts. "[[All I Really Want (Alanis Morissette song)|All I Really Want]]" and "[[Hand in My Pocket]]" followed, and the fourth U.S. single, "[[Ironic (song)|Ironic]]", became Morissette's biggest hit. "[[You Learn]]" and "[[Head over Feet]]", the fifth and sixth singles, kept ''Jagged Little Pill'' (1995) in the top 20 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] albums chart for more than a year. ''Jagged Little Pill'' sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S.; it sold 33 million worldwide,<ref name="Jagged Little Pill 33 million copies">{{cite web|url=http://www.glenballard.com/bio.html |title=Glen Ballard: Biography |publisher=Glen Ballard Official Site |access-date=May 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327001146/http://www.glenballard.com/bio.html |archive-date=March 27, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> making it the second biggest-selling album by a female artist (behind [[Shania Twain]]'s ''[[Come On Over (Shania Twain album)|Come On Over]]'').<ref name="BillboardPill">Newman, Melinda. [https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/10-years-on-alanis-unplugs-little-pill-63867/ "10 Years On, Alanis Unplugs 'Little Pill'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103114603/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/63867/10-years-on-alanis-unplugs-little-pill |date=January 3, 2019 }}''Billboard''. March 4, 2005. Retrieved April 19, 2022.</ref><ref name="TheAgeBlog">Walker, Steven. [http://blogs.theage.com.au/noisepollution/archives/2007/08/post_3.html "The Sound Of A Decade"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521114013/http://blogs.theage.com.au/noisepollution/archives/2007/08/post_3.html |date=May 21, 2011 }}. ''[[The Age]]'' Blog. August 24, 2007.</ref>

Morissette's popularity grew significantly in Canada, where the album was certified twelve times platinum<ref name="CRIA" /> and produced four ''RPM'' chart-toppers: "Hand in My Pocket", "Ironic", "You Learn", and "Head over Feet". The album was also a bestseller in Australia and the United Kingdom.<ref>Dale, David. [https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/the-top-selling-albums-and-musicians-in-australia-20050712-gdin86.html "The top-selling albums and musicians in Australia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708221336/https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/31/1080544531366.html |date=July 8, 2018 }}. ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]].'' July 12, 2005. Retrieved April 19, 2022</ref><ref>Harris, Bill. {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120629073900/http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/Q/Queen/2006/11/17/2391437.html "Queen rules – in album sales"]}} . Jam!. November 17, 2006.</ref>

Morissette's success with ''Jagged Little Pill'' (1995) was credited with opening doors for female singers such as [[Meredith Brooks]], [[Tracy Bonham]] and [[Patti Rothberg]], and later [[Avril Lavigne]] and [[Pink (singer)|Pink]].<ref>Mayer, Andre. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050615022717/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/alanis.html "What a Pill"]. [[CBC Arts]]. June 13, 2005.</ref> Morissette and the album won six Juno Awards in 1996: [[Juno Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], [[Juno Award for Single of the Year|Single of the Year]] ("[[You Oughta Know]]"), Female Vocalist of the Year, [[Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year|Songwriter of the Year]] and [[Juno Award for Best Rock Album|Best Rock Album]].<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1996/1996junos.htm "1996 26th Juno Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106204804/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1996/1996junos.htm |date=January 6, 2007 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> At the [[16th Brit Awards]] she won [[Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act]]. At the [[38th Annual Grammy Awards]] in 1996, she won [[Best Female Rock Vocal Performance]], [[Best Rock Song]] (both for "[[You Oughta Know]]"), [[Best Rock Album]] and [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]].<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1995/1995grammy.htm "1995 38th Grammy Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812183059/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1995/1995grammy.htm |date=August 12, 2007 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref>

"[[Ironic (song)|Ironic]]" got the instant success, though the lyrics were heavily criticized for their [[malapropism]], and the music video received 6 nominations at the [[1996 MTV Video Music Awards]], where it won [[MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist in a Video]], [[Best Female Video]] and [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Editing|Best Editing in a Video]] (won by Scott Gray, Editor), and was also nominated for [[MTV Video Music Award – Viewer's Choice|Viewer's Choice]], [[MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction|Best Direction in a Video]] and [[MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year|Video of the Year]]. Rather than perform that song at the ceremony, she performed "Your House" instead, which is homage to [[Joni Mitchell]].<ref name="Cantin" />{{rp|164}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Alanis Morissette: Our 1995 Cover Story | website=SPIN | date=14 September 2019 | url=https://www.spin.com/featured/alanis-morissette-jagged-little-pill-november-1995-cover-story-alanis-in-wonderland/ | access-date=22 February 2024}}</ref> The song was also nominated for two [[1997 Grammy Awards]]—[[Record of the Year]] and [[Best Music Video, Short Form]]<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1996/1996grammy.htm "1996 39th Grammy Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812182758/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1996/1996grammy.htm|date=August 12, 2007}}. ''Los Angeles Times.''</ref>—and won Single of the Year at the [[1997 Juno Awards]], where Morissette also won Songwriter of the Year and the International Achievement Award.<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1997/1997junos.htm "1997 27th Juno Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070103165730/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1997/1997junos.htm|date=January 3, 2007}}. ''Los Angeles Times.''</ref>

Morissette embarked on an 18-month world tour in support of ''Jagged Little Pill'', beginning in small clubs and ending in large venues. [[Taylor Hawkins]], who later joined the [[Foo Fighters]], was the tour's drummer. [[Radiohead]] joined as the opening act in mid-1996.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/see-radiohead-play-paranoid-android-1996-768862/ |title=Flashback: Radiohead Open for Alanis Morissette in 1996 |magazine=Rolling Stone |last=Greene |first=Andy |date=December 13, 2018 |access-date=August 20, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=June 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606172608/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/see-radiohead-play-paranoid-android-1996-768862/ }}</ref> The video ''[[Jagged Little Pill, Live]]'', which was co-directed by Morissette and is about the bulk of her tour won a [[Grammy Awards of 1998|1998 Grammy Award]] for [[Best Music Video, Long Form]].<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1997/1997grammy.htm "1997 40th Grammy Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812190508/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1997/1997grammy.htm |date=August 12, 2007 }}. ''Los Angeles Times.''</ref>

Following the tour, Morissette began practicing [[Iyengar Yoga]] for balance. After the last December 1996 show, she went to India for six weeks, accompanied by her mother, two aunts and two friends.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|author=Brian D. Johnson|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alanis-morissette-profile-1999|title=Alanis Morissette (Profile)|encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=September 8, 2019|archive-date=June 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609005914/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/alanis-morissette-profile-1999|url-status=live}}</ref> The trip left her with an indelible impression and set the cornerstone for the concept of her next album.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Mark|last=[[Mark Blake (writer)|Blake]]|title=I believed if I had sex I would be damned in hell forever|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|date=October 2001|page=48}}</ref>{{listen
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Morissette was featured as a guest vocalist on [[Ringo Starr]]'s cover of "[[Drift Away]]" on his 1998 album, ''[[Vertical Man]]'', and on the songs "[[Don't Drink the Water (Dave Matthews Band song)|Don't Drink the Water]]" and "[[Spoon (Dave Matthews Band song)|Spoon]]" on the [[Dave Matthews Band]] album ''[[Before These Crowded Streets]]''. She recorded the song "[[Uninvited (song)|Uninvited]]" for the soundtrack to the 1998 film ''[[City of Angels (film)|City of Angels]]''. Although the track was never commercially released as a single, it received widespread radio airplay in the U.S. At the [[1999 Grammy Awards]], it won in the categories of Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and was nominated for [[Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media]].<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1998/1998grammy.htm "1998 41st Grammy Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519225433/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1998/1998grammy.htm |date=May 19, 2006 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> It was also nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award]] for [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://goldenglobes.com/person/alanis-morissette/ | title=Alanis Morissette }}</ref>

In November 1998, Morissette released her fourth album, ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie]]'', which she wrote and produced with Glen Ballard. The label hoped to sell 1 million copies of the album on initial release;<ref name="EW-Nov1998" /> instead, it debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart with first-week sales of 469,000 copies—a record, at the time, for the highest first-week sales of an album by a female artist.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071203065648/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20000525/ai_n13864275 "'Oops!' Britney breaks record"]. ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''. May 25, 2000.</ref> The wordy, personal lyrics on ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' alienated many fans, and after the album sold considerably less than ''Jagged Little Pill'' (1995), many labelled it an example of the [[sophomore jinx]].<ref name="PeopleintheNews" /><ref>Lynskey, Dorian. [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/19/3 "Are you suffering from DSAS?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214102548/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/19/3 |date=February 14, 2022 }}. ''[[The Guardian]]''. September 19, 2003. Retrieved April 20, 2022</ref> It received positive reviews, including a four-star review from ''Rolling Stone''.<ref>Sheffield, Rob. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070527131402/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/alanismorissette/albums/album/111363/review/5941546/supposed_former_infatuation_junkie "Album Reviews – Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie "]. ''Rolling Stone''. December 10, 1998.</ref> In Canada, it won the Juno Award for [[Juno Award for Album of the Year|Best Album]] and was certified four times platinum.<ref name="CRIA" /><ref name="LATimes-Junos2000">[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2000/2000juno.htm "2000 30th Juno Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106130931/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2000/2000juno.htm |date=January 6, 2007 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> "[[Thank U]]", the album's only major international hit single, was released in October 1998 and was nominated for the [[2000 Grammy Award]] for [[Best Female Pop Vocal Performance]]; the music video, which featured Morissette nude, generated mild controversy.<ref name="EW-Nov1998">Willman, Chris. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070902203135/http://www.ew.com/ew/inside/issue/0%2C%2CewTax%3A457%2C00.html "The Second Coming of Alanis"]. ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. November 6, 1998, iss. 457.</ref><ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1999/1999grammy.htm "1999 42nd Grammy Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812182917/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1999/1999grammy.htm |date=August 12, 2007 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> Morissette herself directed the videos for "Unsent" and "[[So Pure]]", which won, respectively, the [[MuchMusic Video Award]] for [[Best Director (MMVA Award)|Best Director]] and the [[Juno Award for Video of the Year]].<ref name="LATimes-Junos2000" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/5 |title=VH1 Original TV Shows, Reality TV Shows &#124; VH1 |website=VH1 |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001062939/http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/5 |archive-date=1 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Morissette contributed vocals to four tracks on [[Jonathan Elias]]'s project ''[[The Prayer Cycle]]'', which was released in 1999, where she paid homage to her roots by singing in Hungarian on "Mercy" and "Faith", and in French on "Hope" and "Innocence". The same year, she released the live acoustic album ''[[Alanis Unplugged]]'', which was recorded during her appearance on the television show ''[[MTV Unplugged]]''. It featured tracks from her previous two albums alongside four new songs, including "[[King of Pain]]" (a cover of [[The Police]] song) and "No Pressure over Cappuccino", which Morissette wrote with her main guitar player, Nick Lashley. The recording of the ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' track "[[That I Would Be Good]]", released as a single, became a minor hit on [[hot adult contemporary]] radio in America. Also in 1999, Morissette released a live version of her song "Are You Still Mad" on the charity album ''[[Live in the X Lounge#Live in the X Lounge II (1999)|Live in the X Lounge II]]''. For her live rendition of "So Pure" at [[Woodstock '99]], she was nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance at the [[2001 Grammy Awards]].<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2000/2000grammy.htm "2000 43rd Grammy Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812044655/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2000/2000grammy.htm |date=August 12, 2007 }}. ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> During the summer of 1999, Morissette toured with singer-songwriter [[Tori Amos]] on the ''5 and a Half Weeks Tour'' in support of Amos' album ''[[To Venus and Back]]'' (1999).