Who is under rug swept about

Coulier's ghost continues to float over and around Morissette's music, perhaps while doing his famous Popeye impression and mugging wildly. This fierce independence finds its way into every aspect of Under Rug Swept , her first album without the assistance of professionally licensed hitmaker Glen Ballard.

The most marked effect of breaking away from Ballard's input is the unmitigated and highly concentrated ferocity of her lyrical confessions. Obviously, the emotional pain persists, many, many long years after "You Can't Do That on Television. Whether it be between genders or between human beings, between spirits. Inevitably, we ended up breaking up, so the record kind of followed the grieving of it, then the proverbial phoenix rising and continuing to grow. The first track, "21 Things I Want in a Lover", features Morissette listing the qualities she looks for in a partner.

I do believe that I will be able to get to a point where hearing his name or even running into him or hearing from him won't trigger me as much as it did and still does. It really is my responsibility to distinguish the difference between the two and choose which one I want. Track seven on the album, "That Particular Time", documents a breakup and "the three distinct chapters in the relationship" Morissette was going through.

I try to react as an honourable man to the vibes of erroneous machos who are damaging the image of my sex. And at the same time not sacrificing my own life and my thoughts and my own beliefs. Supporting someone in their choices and at the same time being able to express what mine are, even if they differ, is the ultimate healthy, loving interaction. The tenth and penultimate track, " Surrendering ", was the last song Morissette wrote for the album.

According to her, it is "about the gratitude that I feel for someone tapping into the courage that it takes to allow themselves to be loved and to drop the defenses and fears And how thrilling it is for me to be able to be let in that kind of way It's a very peaceful, joyful song".

Morissette wrote several political songs such as "Awakening Americans" and "Symptoms" during the making of the album, but she decided not to include such material in spite of an online petition lobbying for their release.

Morissette said she doesn't "resonate" with overtly political songs because they are "removed too much" from her personal experiences: "I love sitting up at two in the morning talking religion, but when it comes to my songs, it's just rambling, soapbox, obnoxious", she said.

Reviews of Under Rug Swept on its release were generally positive. Although is still young, consider Under Rug Swept one of the year's best. Morissette has fashioned a lyrical Trojan Horse to be wheeled into unsuspecting homes for months to come.

But Morissette instantly demonstrates her gift for the catchy Other critical appraisals were less favorable.

Rolling Stone , in a three-star review, wrote "The music is brawny and meticulous While the tone of the songs, and the grain of Morissette's voice, promise intimacy, there's hardly a private detail anywhere.

The songs are riddled with such overwritten Psych ruminations. Words tumble forth and arrange themselves kaleidoscopically into all sorts of unusual categories I'm just not sure that pop music should come out of a thesaurus. Lyrically, it's often hilarious This record moves way beyond armchair psychology — in fact, there are armchairs that have a cannier grasp of the mind. Under Rug Swept was closely guarded before its release: for journalists to listen to it, they had to be invited to Maverick Records headquarters and listen to a single play copy in a special listening room.

It's not just one kind of rock that's connecting right now — the palette is varied. For an artist [such as Morissette] who comes from rock, this could be a fertile time. It peaked inside the top forty on the Billboard Hot in the U. Under Rug Swept entered the Canadian albums chart at number one with first week sales of 35, copies, [27] and the CRIA certified it platinum the following month for shipments of , Within a month of release it had sold , copies, [30] and the RIAA certified it platinum for shipments of over one million.

Alanis Morissette has been responsible for some of the catchiest radio songs of the past decade. Her hooks and melodies are consistently memorable and, like it or not, after a few listens it's almost impossible not to hum along. Much of the world came to know Alanis in through her debut international release, Jagged Little Pill.

Her teenybopper past was soon unveiled, but with these first albums so hard to come by, this past became something of legend. It remains true to say that a negligible percentage of those who bought Jagged have heard any of her prior work which is rather sad considering they document her progression as an artist and a woman.