#1308: Feel Your Love by Alanis Morissette
Peak Month: October 1991
6 weeks on Vancouver’s CKLG chart
Peak Position #20
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ did not chart
YouTube.com: “Feel Your Love”
“Feel Your Love” lyrics
Alanis Nadine Morissette was born in Ottawa in 1974. At the age of six she began to take piano, and the following year took up dance. In Junior High School she appeared on five episodes of a local CTV comedy show called You Can’t Do That on Television. In 1987 she recorded a demo with the help of Rich Dodson of The Stampeders. Four years later she released her debut album, Alanis. Her debut single was titled “Too Hot”.
Three more singles from the Alanis album, “Walk Away”, “Feel Your Love” and “Plastic”, kept Alanis Morissette on AM Top 40 radio in Canada into 1992.
In 1998 Morissette released “Uninvited”, a track from the film and soundtrack for City of Angels. The song climbed to #7 on the Canadian RPM singles chart. The single won two Grammy Awards in 1999 for Best Rock Song and Best Female Vocal Rock Performance. A third Grammy nomination for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television was given not to Alanis Morissette, but to James Horner and Will Jennings for “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic. Since then Alanis also has written songs for a number of other films, including The Devil Wears Prada.
In the fall of 1998 Alanis released her fourth studio album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. The debut single was “Thank U”. The song was her fifth number one hit on the Canadian RPM singles chart. It also made the Top Ten in Austria, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Scotland and the UK.
In 2002 Morissette released her fifth studio album titled Under Rug Swept. The debut single, “Hands Clean”, became her sixth number one hit on the Canadian RPM singles chart. It also climbed to number one in New Zealand, and the Top Ten in Australia and Switzerland. Her last Top Ten hit anywhere was “Everything” from her sixth studio album So-Called Chaos. It became her twelfth Top Ten hit on the Canadian RPM singles chart. To date she has released eight studio albums, several compilations and one live album.
Between 1995 and 2018 Alanis Morissette has launched 19 separate tours. Three of these have been as co-headliner with Tori Amos (1999), the Barenaked Ladies (2004) and Matchbox Twenty (2008). Among her tours Morissette’s Junkie Tour, from August 1998 to December 1999, was her most ambitious. It took her across six continents and performing on 126 stages.
In 2018 the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, performed a musical titled Jagged Little Pill. It featured the songs from Alanis’ 1995 breakthrough album. In addition to her recording and performing career, in the Alanis Morissette has appeared in several seasons (2009 and 2010) of the American Comedy-drama TV show Weeds. She has appeared in live theatre in The Vagina Monologues and in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as death row inmate Sunny Jacobs. As of 2016, Alanis Morissette has also been writing a column for the Guardian.
October 13, 2019
Ray McGinnis
References:
Christopher John Farley, “Music: Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know Her: Once A Teen-dream Pop Singer, Alanis Morissette is Now a Rock ‘n’ Roller with a No. 1 Album and Six Grammy Nominations,” TIME, February 26, 1996.
Cara Carriveau, “Alanis Morissette Interview,” Chicago Music Guide.com, May 9, 2008.
Mark Sutherland, “Alanis Morissette Interview,” Telegraph, UK, August 25, 2012.
“Profiles of Alanis Morissette, Margaret Cho,” CNN, January 4, 2003.
Lance Chalmers, Leslie Howe, Bob Moffatt, Michelle Plasse, One To One bio, Canadian Bands.com.
“Serge Côté bio,” IMDb.com.
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