![]() ![]() She headed to Los Angeles in search of more self-expression and more control over her output and was introduced to Glen Ballard.With roles quickly established (Morissette: lyrics, music – Ballard: music, production) they started writing and demoing material in his studio in the San Fernando Valley (“everything SMELLED good”, Alanis remembers). ![]() ![]() She was dropped by the label after those two records and in her excellent essay in the new Jagged Little Pill four-CD collector’s edition she reveals pointedly that the “ anticipated despair never came. Everyone was buying the singles, everyone had the album and everyone was watching the videos and the performances on TV music shows across the world.Īlthough it was her international debut, Jagged Little Pill was actually the singer-songwriter’s third long player since Alanis (1991) and Now Is The Time (1992) were both only released in Canada only via MCA records. Such is the pleasure-giving qualities of music, you can derive just as much satisfaction from the big selling everyone-loves-it mega-album as the secret gem of an record that not many know about.Īlanis Morissette‘s 1995 album Jagged Little Pill falls firmly into the former category, and has since sold an astonishing 33m copies worldwide. ![]()
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