FfFfFfFF 54,014 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Recovery is a complex, lifelong endeavour, and lockdown has been triggering, says Morissette, who is juggling life at home as a mother of three with promoting her ninth album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road. “At 3pm, I might feel: ‘Wow, this is a huge gift, I’m so overwhelmed with gratitude.’ By 3.15pm, I’m raging. By 9pm, I’m despondent. Isolation is the lighting of the match.” Most recently she has been dealing with post-partum depression. Her youngest child, Winter, was born last August, a brother to her nine-year-old son, Ever, and three-year-old daughter, Onyx, her children with the rapper Souleye, whom she married in 2010. She has endured the condition after every birth. She also headed to the studio for the first time in eight years to record her new album. “Songwriting is an exercise in letting the unconscious out,” she says. “I live my whole life, then I take 10 minutes to write the story of it.” The songs are rooted in guitar and piano-based rock; sometimes anthemic (Smiling, Ablaze), often gentler and pensive (Diagnosis, Her). They are not as abrasive as her definitive early songs, but just as she travelled novel ground back then, foregrounding a young woman’s anger, she is still covering topics that rarely appear in mainstream rock. The album also tackles what Morissette terms “financial abuse” in the music business. In 2017, her former business manager was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing $7m (£6m) from her, a violation that factors in the songs Pedestal (“You grabbed my crown and got everything you wanted”) and Reckoning (“I hope you enjoy these drawings in your jail”). [...] Morissette remains sceptical: she worries about the enduring vapidness that plagues the entertainment world and thinks it’s foolish to consider that talented women are favoured for reasons beyond marketability. “The patriarchy only pays attention when there’s a financial shift,” she says. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/24/alanis-morissette-without-therapy-i-dont-think-id-still-be-here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondHeart326 261 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 I can't wait for this album to drop. These are the first songs of hers I've felt connected to since probably supposed former infatuation junkie but that's cuz she's writing from a place of angst again and while it sounds different than jagged little pill it's thematically the same concept of writing to heal the wounds. Reasons I drink, smiling, and diagnosis have been my anthems Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
unchaudbaise 23 Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I've been looking forward to new music from Alanis for a long time now and I'm really loving these new songs, so I'm pumped! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessGUY 381 Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I wanted Rest to be on SPFITR so bad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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