Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
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Artist: Alanis MorissetteEdition: Music CD
Published: 1998
CD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Music Label: Maverick
Soundtracks:
- Front Row
- Baba
- Thank U
- Are You Still Mad
- Sympathetic Character
- That I Would Be Good
- Couch
- Can't Not
- UR
- I Was Hoping
- One
- Would Not Come
- Unsent
- So Pure
- Joining You
- Heart of the House
- Your Congratulations
Music reviews of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Music Review: A "Failure" at Eight Million Units
Rating: 5 Stars
The Alanis who returned from Southern Asia in 1997 after two grinding years on the road in '95 and '96 does not seem to have been the one who thrashed her way through JLP and the tour that followed. (How could anyone =this= conscious and committed to exploration of the human condition possibly remain stuck in =any= "ruts?")
Many who'd fallen for the combination of restless, flapdoodle four-year-old demand to know =why= and romantic withdrawal that suffused JLP were put off by the stream-of-(very-high-level)-consciousness, "psychology" and Brahmin illusions throughout SFIJ. "Where's our little playmate?" "Where's our ultra-wit kangaroo?" "Where's the validator of our man-hating rage?"
Expecting (however ridiculously) that SFIJ would be another JLP, the industry began to write her off as a five-hit wonder even though SFIJ is headed towards worldwide sales of eight million units as I write here in the summer of 2009. Even Madonna (her "boss" at the time) made comments interpreted by some that Al wasn't being quite "commercial" enough. Sheryl Crow, the other female with legs at the time, only once sold more than five million of her '90s albums; yet =she= was considered "successful" every time she came to bat.
Because we now have further evidence (in the form of five more studio albums; ten more years of fawning audiences in places like Brazil where native-Portugese speakers reliably sing along with her just like North Americans did in '96; and readily available videos of more extended interviews with her), we can see and hear for ourselves that the Alanis of 1994 and '95 is still very much alive and well. And that the Alanis of 2009 is what anyone mindful of their =own= experience of "developmental path" and "human potential" will likely see as "just what we would expect."
Alanis Morissette is a voracious stimulus seeker, but she is no fool. She indulges her inner three- and four-year-old's explorations of the environment and reports the results to those who are similarly inclined. That she is occasionally less concerned with form than function may well come from a realization that millions of her fans =are= like her (meaning they care more about what she has to =say= than the musical packaging), as well as an understandable motivation to communicate with people like herself as opposed to those to whom she does not so much relate.
There =are= commercial hits (or, at least songs with musical hooks) on SFIJ: "Thank U" ran up the charts like Patriot missile in '98. "One" and "That I Would Be Good" got a lot of air play at the time. "Are You Still Mad?" has surely stuck in a lot of people's minds (if audience request is an indication). And "Joining You" has become a pier piling Al can rarely afford to leave off the concert song list.
SFIJ may be more of the first indication of what Alanis Nadine Morissette would =become= in the next decade than JLP could have hoped to be. Al's music industry resentments were largely (though not completely) exhausted, and her grasp of her emotional contortions was far more evolved. The date-raped, and four-f'd college grrls who idolized her in '96 may not have been able to keep up with her as she explored feelings =other= than rage (like frailty, elective enmeshment, helplessness and her own -- as opposed to =his= -- codependence) in SFIJ.
I enjoy the benefit of witnessing a decade and a half of evolution by the most insightful and verbally efficacious observer of intra- and interpersonal events of our time from the point of view of one who's had to study human behavior to repair both himself =and= others. For me, at least, Alanis has been the very best of the continuing education courses I have encountered.
Description of Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
When Alanis Morissette visited Mother India in 1997, she gained new composure and, in a state of numinous bliss, wrote 17 songs for Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, each suffused with the search for enlightenment and self-knowledge. To the likely dismay of many fans, Morissette now rages at herself. But this long-awaited follow-up to 1995's record-smashing Jagged Little Pill is far from a disappointment. Imbued with dark, swirling psychedelic licks borrowed from Jimmy Page's song book, the disc is paradoxically both more enigmatic and revealing than Pill. And while Junkie shows that Morissette is no less stingy about revealing herself to her fans--her staccato stream-of-consciousness style is again employed to surrender her secrets and foibles a little too easily in these tales of abuse, lost love, and self-flagellation--Junkie also makes one wonder what this musical sphinx holds back. In "Baba" she takes on competitive spirituality, sneering at the fashionable grasp for enlightenment. "Would Not Come" returns to a similar theme--taking us on a tour of her diary. "Would Not Come" and "Your House" offer the only hints of sexual innuendo. The only revenge she wreaks on an errant lover is in the percussive "Are You Still Mad," this time dishing up a much subtler payback than on "You Oughta Know." The record's standouts, meanwhile, are "Thank U" and the hip-poppy "So Pure." One complaint (and there is only one): Morissette's rapid-fire wordplay is at times engulfed by ponderous instrumentation. The worldbeat rhythms and elaborate guitar play add fresh twists to the album, but they also sometimes bury her message. --Jaan UhelszkiGeneral CDs
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