However, no other country paid much attention to the record. The publishing contract led to a record deal with MCA Canada, and Morissette moved to Toronto before releasing her debut album, Alanis, in 1991.Īlanis 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. She then concentrated on a musical career after leaving the show's cast, signing a music publishing contract when she was 14. 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. She also joined the cast of You Can't Do That on Television, a children's television program. Morissette was born in Ottawa, Canada, and began playing piano and writing songs during her childhood years. Morissette never shunned Jagged Little Pill-she launched anniversary celebrations and adapted the album for a Broadway musical-but such latter-day albums as Such Pretty Forks in the Road illustrated her musical and emotional growth. The Top 40 hits slowed after "Hands Clean," the single pulled from 2002's self-produced Under Rug Swept, but Morissette worked steadily, her albums reflecting an earned serenity while retaining the wit and insight that made her a cultural phenomenon in the '90s. Instead, the album gave her a lasting career, one she cultivated through emotional candor and music she gently modulated as she matured. Spinning off a series of Top Ten singles, including "You Oughta Know," "Hand in My Pocket," and "Ironic," and winning the 1996 Grammy for Album of the Year, Jagged Little Pill became an international blockbuster so squarely tied to its time, it threatened to leave Morissette behind in the '90s.
Pitched halfway between glossy mainstream pop and angst-ridden alternative rock, Alanis Morissette's American debut, Jagged Little Pill, caught the zeitgeist of the mid-'90s, splitting the difference between Gen-X cynicism and self-help actualization.
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