Alanis

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Alanis nasce il 01.06.1974 sotto il nome di Alanis Nadine Morrisette, nel Canada, a Ottawa Ontorio. Alcuni minuti prima del suo gemello Wade. Lei e il suo gemello hanno un fratello maggiore di nome Chad.

Il padre Allan e la madre Georgia, lavorarono per tre anni in Germania nella foresta nera. Insegnavano i bambini di soldati canadesi li.

Il suo primo album uscí nel 1991, portando il semplice Titolo: ALANIS.
Ma il vero successo della Morrisette venne nel 1995, con l'album JAGGED LITTLE PILL.
Dal quale vennero tratti tre brani che la resero famosa. Primo di tutti il brano IRONIC, con un video geniale. Si vede Alanis 4 volte in una auto, che canta sull'ironia della vita;) Poi seguirono HAND IN MY POCKET, e YOU LEARN, sempre dallo stesso album.

Una curiositá della Morrisette é quella, di aver interpretato la parte di Dio, nel film DOGMA, accanto a Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, e Salma Hayek. Un piccolo ruolo dove la si vede solo alla fine, ma molto curioso :)


Il suo ultimo Album é FLAVORS OF ENTLAGLEMENT. Brani bellissimi che la voce stupenda di Alanis rende pieni di vita.

A me personalmente la Morrisette é piaciuta sempre moltissimo. Emane una semplicitá unica, e ha una voce fantastica.
Lontana da tutte quelle stelline-Pop, ha il suo stile, ed emane molta energia.

Qui il brano che la rese famoa: IRONIC

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next Day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic...don't you think


It's like rain on your wedding Day
it's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've throught...it figures

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic...don't you think


Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...don't you think
A little too ironic...and yeah I really do think...


Life has a funny way of my sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out




Citizen of the planet - dall'album Flavous of Entlagement

I start up in the north I grow from special seed
I sprinkle it with sensibility
from French and Hungarian snow
I linger in the sprouting until my engine's full

Then I move across the sea
To European bliss
To language of poets
As I cut the cord of home
I kiss my mother's mother
look to the horizon

wide eyed, new ground
humbled by my new surroundings

I am a citizen of the planet
My president is kwan yin
My frontier is on an airplane
my prisons: homes for rehabilitating

Then I fly back to my nest, I fly
back with my nuclear but everything
is different
So I wait, my yearn for home is
broadened, patriotism expanded by
callings from beyond
So I pack my things nothing precious all things sacred

I am a citizen of the planet
My laws are all of attraction
My punishments are consequences
Separating from source the original sin

I am a citizen of the planet
democracy's kids are sovereign
Where the teachers are the sages
And pedestals fill with every parent

And so, the next few years are blurry,
the next decade's a flurry of smells
and tastes unknown
Threads sewn straight through this
fabric through fields of every color
one culture to another

I come alive and I get giddy I am
taken and globally naturalized
I am a citizen of the planet
From simple roots through high vision
I am guarded by the angels
My body guides the direction I go in

I am a citizen of the planet
My favorite pastime edge stretching
Besotten with human condition
these ideals are borne from my deepest within





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