12.10.2002 | Alanis Morissette to revisit pop days on new tour
By Alyssa Schwartz, CTV News Staff
Alanis Morissette may have spent the last decade trying to distance herself from the bubble-gummy pop songs she recorded back in the early 1990s, but concert-goers might soon be treated to a nostalgic taste. Ironic, don't you think?
"I normally -- for what I think are obvious reasons -- don't do songs that I wrote when I was 16 because they're not as autobiographical," Morissette told etalk's Thea Andrews.
Just a few of Morissette's Canadian fans are likely to remember that the angry "grrl rocker" was once a Juno-winning pop princess, acclaimed for songs like "Too Hot."
In fact, the Ottawa-born Morissette has worked hard to move beyond the teeny-bopper demographic, signing with Madonna's Maverick record label in 1995 and releasing angry "You Oughta Know" song after song ever since. Her latest CD, Feast on Scraps, a compilation of live recordings and previously unreleased tracks, hits stores Tuesday.
Morissette says she wishes she was able to be as raw and open in her day to day life as she is able to be in her music.
"If I could apply half the courage that I apply in my song writing, I'd be a pretty evolved communicator in day to day life," she says. "I'm not quite there yet but I'm trying."
Expressing such complex emotions through music has become second nature, Morissette told Andrews.
"It's a way to express my truths," she says.
It's a formula that has garnered Morissette seven Grammies and made her one of the best-selling female recording artists in history.
But Morissette admits to feeling a bit of nostalgia for the simpler times music-wise.
"I've felt, over the last few years inspired to do some version of the songs from that era that ... not only give a little tip of the hat to that era but that are something I could actually sing," Morissette said.
Toronto fans will likely be treated to the results when Morissette plays the Air Canada Centre Thursday.
"We're probably going to be doing a special version of a song I wrote when I was a teenager," she says.
"We have to rehearse -- that's all I can really say until we do it."

Source :: Monika, ctv.ca