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Alanis's new single starts well enough, but then she ruins it with a pathetic yelp
(Andrew Gillis)
	The first single from the Alanis Morissette album started out well enough. THere
was a cool minor melody on top of just two chords. An R&B backbeat, percolating
underneath. The first line reallt caught me: something like, "Couldn't we get off
these...antibiotics?" Where I wondered was she going with that? And then the refrain, in
which she sings the title-Thank You- except she's thanking heartbreak, misery and
distress.
	Which is fine- and oh-so-ironic- until right at the end, Alanis can't hold back, and
fairly yelps out "Thank you/ Disillusionment!" There's that anguished squeak she puts
into her voice. And all you can think is, I can't believe she did that. She didn't need it. She
was on her way to making a fairly subtle point about adversity making a body stronger.
Something she might have picked up in India. Who knows?
	A perfectly good pop song, ruined. Producers get hired to stop things like this
getting past the control room door. This first sample of Morissette on CBC suggests a
record that was self produced.

***Allison's note- I find this article absolutely awful and insulting. Any dumb reporter
who goes to review someone's work should probably do a bit of backround research on
the artist first. A pathetic yelp???? Anguished squeak??? Pardonez-moi, but wasn't that
voice inflection part of  her songs from JLP, when, if I remember correctly, you gave her
the thumbs up for it??? I know Alanis wouldn't care, maybe i'm overprotective of her and
the backlash. I should probably just laugh this off, but it's so terrible, I thougth i'd share it
and let you guys know what I think. And another thing, we all know that Alanis doesn't
set out to write "a perfectly good pop song". Her albums kind of prove that, doncha
think? Any imperfections are the things we fans grow to love about her. So, yeah, this
article makes very few valid points, and i think it's crap. Input? mail me at
alanison@hotmail.com




MORISSETTE CD SNAPPED UP
	Toronto (CP)-New CD's from Ottawa born rocker Alanis Morissette and the
group U2 were flying off the racks as a who's who of megastars unveiled new releases.
"I don't have any figures yet," said Mike Greatorex, manager of a Sam the Record Man
store in Halifax. "But based on what I've seen on the floor and at cash, it would seem like
Alanis would be the biggest seller."
	Celine Dion's Christmas album These are Special Times was also out this week,
along with new releases from the Rolling Stones, Beck, Oasis and the Cardigans. and
Yoko Ono's compilation of John Lennon music- a boxed set that sells for about $80-was
also doing well at some stores.
	Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is Morissette's follow-up to the hugely
successful Jagged Little Pill of 1995, which turned her into a superstar and sold about 30
million copies worldwide.
	Greatorex noted taht a lot of the purchasers in his store seemed to be buying the
album for someone else. "I get the sense that there are a lot of people coming in today-
adults-who were instructed to  pick up Alanis for their kids or whatever," he said. "I
assume so, because a lot of them don't seem like they spend much time in a recod store-
nor do they seem to know much about this Alanis, except that they're supposed to get one
today".
	At HMV's flagship store in Toronto, manager Scottt Woods said the Morissette
CD was "starting a little slower" than U2's The Best of 1980-1990. "The U2 people have 
been waiting for a greatest hits collection for ages, and this is a limited edition, a
worldwide limited edition. They've got the kind of fans who sort of have o own
everything."
	He said Dion's album started a little slow, but it's a Christmas album and has time
to pick up. Beck's Mutations is lso a top seller. "I think the Alanis Morissette is definately
going to take us right into Christmas with massive sales, and probably U2 as well...I
thinkit's something we need actually, I don't just mean this store-but the industry
basically."




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