Universal city, California.
The young Canadian singer Alanis Morissette and pop diva Mariah Carey
received six Grammy nominations each on Thursday and will face off for the
album of the year award.
Morissette's acclaimed Jagged Little Pill also was nominated for best rock
album. Her brutally raw song about a relationship gone bad, You oughta
know, will compete for song of the year, best rock song and best female
rocker performance.
The 21 year-old native of Ottawa, who sings with an intensity reminiscent of
Janis Joplin, also was nominated for best new artist.
Carey's album Daydream was nominated album of the year and best pop album.
Rounding out the album of the year category are Michael Jackson's History
Past, Present, and Future Book 1, Joan Osborne's Relish and Pearl Jam's
Vitalogy.
The winners will be selected by the 7,000 voting members of the National
Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and will be announced Feb. 27.
Hootie & the Blowfish whose debut album Cracked Rear View was 1995's biggest
seller at 10 million copies, recieved only two nominations, for best new
artist and best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal.
In the best pop rock album category, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy is pitted agianst
Neil Young's Mirror Ball, on which Pearl Jam sang backup. Also in the
running are Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, Tom Petty's Wildfire and Chris
Isaak's Forever Blue.
By Jennifer Bowles, Assciated Press, Checkn' the Charts, January 1996, page 6 (copied)
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