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rfmcdonald) wrote2008-05-02 11:58 pm
rfmcdonald) wrote2008-05-02 11:58 pm
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[MUSIC] Alanis Morissette, "Crazy"
Canadians first became familiar with Alanis Morissette in the early 1990s, when she released two lightweight dance-pop albums starting with 1991's Now Is The Time. The songs were generic, the sort of very dated material that one might expect (say) Paula Abdul to have sung. Her Top 20 Canadian hit "Too Hot" is pretty representative of this period in her musical career.
After her second album's unimpressive performance, most Canadians seemed to assume that she'd disappear like so many other Canadian pop musicians, lacking large markets and a star system as they do. Jagged Little Pill surprised everyone. I remember the borderline-incredulous look on the face of MuchMusic VJ Monika Deol as she held the album up in front of the cameras, congratulating her on a really good album. Certainly "You Oughta Know" was a decided break with her past.
Listening to mall music the other day, I was surprised to hear a voice like Morissette's singing Seal's 1991 "Crazy". I went to Wikipedia and found out that, yes, she did cover that my favourite song in Seal's back catalogue for her 2005 greatest hits compilation. I'm still not entirely sure what I think of her version although I tend to like it. I certainly congratulate her for having the courage to cover that iconic song, just as I'm qutie happy to congratulate her for her version of "My Humps". It is a matter of some interest to me that she has moved away somewhat from her more strongly alternate-themed music fo the mid- and late 1990s, moving towards more conventional style of popular music.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis?
After her second album's unimpressive performance, most Canadians seemed to assume that she'd disappear like so many other Canadian pop musicians, lacking large markets and a star system as they do. Jagged Little Pill surprised everyone. I remember the borderline-incredulous look on the face of MuchMusic VJ Monika Deol as she held the album up in front of the cameras, congratulating her on a really good album. Certainly "You Oughta Know" was a decided break with her past.
Listening to mall music the other day, I was surprised to hear a voice like Morissette's singing Seal's 1991 "Crazy". I went to Wikipedia and found out that, yes, she did cover that my favourite song in Seal's back catalogue for her 2005 greatest hits compilation. I'm still not entirely sure what I think of her version although I tend to like it. I certainly congratulate her for having the courage to cover that iconic song, just as I'm qutie happy to congratulate her for her version of "My Humps". It is a matter of some interest to me that she has moved away somewhat from her more strongly alternate-themed music fo the mid- and late 1990s, moving towards more conventional style of popular music.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis?