And it's why I moved to Hollywood and wrote with so many different people, I didn't want to stop until a song really represented exactly what I was thinking and feeling. And he told me that she was going to be in town for a short time and wanted to write songs. office, he called me and said that he had a writer coming in town from Canada and he had thought me to write with her and that's how it all started.
I was just writing day and night - I have calendars from that period of time where I have a writing session in the morning and a writing session at night, seven days a week, Saturdays and Sundays, and that's all I did.īallard: In February of 1994, a young publisher named Kurt Dinney, who was at MCA Music Publishing, and was working in the L.A. I was a workaholic then, I'm a recovering workaholic now. So I spent about a year or so in Toronto, and then I was dropped by MCA. But I knew that if I went from Ottawa straight to Hollywood it just would've been too big of a cultural change for me. Morissette: I really was dying to go to Hollywood. The making-of: 'I have zero regret about anything'* With interviews from Morissette, Ballard, Maverick's Guy Oseary and more, we present the complete oral history of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.Įditor's note: all interviews have been adjusted for clarity. When a 19-year-old Canadian woman with a hell of a lot to say headed west from Toronto and found her voice. Jagged Little Pill's place in history is unmistakable today, but the album's story starts in a small studio in Encino, Calif., just after an earthquake, at the same time and place as the O.J. Madonna's label, Maverick Records, picked up the resulting album, and come June 1995, Morissette released a feminist manifesto in Jagged Little Pill that sold more than 33 million copies and won multiple Grammy and Juno awards. At 21 years old, Morissette no longer let others define her Jagged Little Pill was her truth.ĭropped from MCA Records after those first two albums, Ottawa-born Morissette travelled to California to write new songs and eventually found a co-writer in Glen Ballard (Paula Abdul, Wilson Phillips, the Pointer Sisters). It also gave her a dance-pop image she wanted to shake. Jagged Little Pill's sharp arrival was unexpected: Morissette's previous work included two teen pop albums and a single that gave her the moniker " Too Hot" Alanis. Alanis Morissette's voice tore out of 1995 with an album that split the decade.
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