''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' is the fourth
studio album
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and second internationally released album by singer-songwriter
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with tw ...
, released by
Maverick Records
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in the United States on November 3, 1998. The album was positively received by critics and performed well commercially, breaking the record for album sales in its first week by a female artist. The first single from the album, "
Thank U
"Thank U" is a song by Canadian-American recording artist and songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). The song was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, who produced h ...
", reached the top 20 of the US
''Billboard'' Hot 100. Morissette promoted the album with worldwide touring.
Inspired from her trip to India over late 1996 and early 1997, the album cover contains phrases from
five precepts
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, a basic code of ethics of the followers of
Buddhism
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.
Background
Morissette wrote "
Thank U
"Thank U" is a song by Canadian-American recording artist and songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). The song was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, who produced h ...
" and "Baba" after her trip to India in 1997. The protagonist of "Baba" goes on a spiritual pilgrimage to India where she encounters a guru who, like many spiritual teachers in India, is referred to as "Baba". The word "Baba" means "father" in the
Hindi
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language. Morissette opened most of shows during the ''Junkie'' era with the song, and it was featured as an opener during her 2002 tours. It has been seldom played since then. "Baba" opened Morissette's performance on the television show ''
MTV Unplugged
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'' in 1999, but it was excluded from the CD release ''
Alanis Unplugged
''MTV Unplugged'' is the first live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on November 9, 1999 (see 1999 in music). It comprises songs performed by Morissette on the television pro ...
''. Another live version of "Baba" was released on the ''No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees'' CD. In a 2012 interview with fans, director
Kevin Smith
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confirmed that "Front Row" was partially inspired by a phone conversation he and Morissette once had. They were mutually attracted to each other but never actually dated. His suggestion of naming the reasons they were not a couple became part of the lyrics.
Critical reception
''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' was acclaimed by music critics.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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from
AllMusic
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called it a "clear step forward" and concluded that "Morissette is a weird acquired taste, due to her idiosyncratic vocals and doggedly convoluted confessionals – but
he album
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certainly confirms that she doesn't quite sound like anyone else, either."
[ '']The Village Voice
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''s Robert Christgau
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commented that he felt "privileged to listen along with all the young women whose struggles Morissette blows up to such a scale."[ ]Ken Tucker
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Early life and education
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from ''Entertainment Weekly
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'' complimented Morissette's new style and wrote that "Morissette has used her year-plus recording hiatus and newfound star status wisely, in pursuit of a way to make a vulnerable, openhearted album in the face of intense commercial expectations."[ '']Slant Magazine
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'' critic Sal Cinquemani complimented Morissette's songwriting and concluded that while the album "is nearly 15 minutes too long (did an ode to her mother, the sweet 'Heart of the House,' really need to be made public?)... not one moment of ''Junkie''s 70-plus minutes is less than captivating."[
Despite the B+ grade from Ken Tucker in 1998, fellow Entertainment Weekly music critic David Browne was much harsher. In the Spring 2000 Tenth Anniversary issue of Entertainment Weekly, in a retrospective article discussing popular music in the 1990s, Browne wrote "Musically speaking, easy targets abounded--does anyone beyond family remember Hammer's gangsta makeover or Vanilla Ice's live album? At least we could laugh at those, whereas the decade's foremost clunker--Alanis Morisette's ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie''--was corporate grunge and victim-culture whining incarnate." It was also listed amongst "the worst albums ever" by '' Q'' magazine.
]
Commercial performance
In the United States, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 469,000 copies sold in its first week. The album broke the record for sales in its first week by a female act, surpassing Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer. She is often regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, as well as being one of the most influential musicians of her generation. ...
's ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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'' which opened with 423,000 copies. This would be later surpassed once again in 2000 by Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer. Often referred to as the " Princess of Pop", she is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. After appearing in stage productio ...
with the release of her second album '' Oops!...I Did It Again'' selling 1.3 million copies in its first week. In the New Zealand Albums Chart
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, it was Morissette's second consecutive number one album, and was certificated 2× Platinum by RIANZ
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, selling over 30,000 copies. The album also debuted at number one in Switzerland, and stayed in the charts for thirty-one weeks. It was certified Platinum
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in that country. The album entered at number one in Norway, staying there for three weeks. It was certificated platinum there as well. It also peaked in the top ten in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Sweden, and other European countries. The album has sold 2,604,000 copies in the United States as of March 2012.[Trust, Gary]
"Ask Billboard: What Are the Billboard 200's Longest-Charting Albums Ever?"
''Billboard
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''. December 24, 2012.
The album sold 2.2 million copies worldwide on its first week of release and over 5.2 million copies worldwide within a month.
Accolades
"Thank U
"Thank U" is a song by Canadian-American recording artist and songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). The song was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, who produced h ...
" received a Grammy Award
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nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
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, and " So Pure" was nominated in the category of Best Female Rock Vocal Performance
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.
The album itself won a Juno Award
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for Album of the Year. The third single So Pure won the award for Best Video.
Promotion
As with the previous album, Morissette did an extensive amount of touring in support for this record. In the fall of 1998, she embarked on a club tour across North America with select appearances in Europe, Asia and Australia. The North American leg of the tour included opening act Chris Whitley
Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues/rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. During his 25-year career he released more than a dozen albums, had two songs in the top 50 of the Billboard mains ...
.
Guitarist Nick Lashley and bassist Chris Chaney
Christopher A. Chaney (born June 14, 1970) is an American musician. He is best known as the former bassist of alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, and as a member of Alanis Morissette's touring and recording band for six years. Chaney was a ...
remained for this album's touring from the previous years, although there were several new band members. The band now incorporated a keyboardist, Deron Johnson
Deron Roger Johnson (July 17, 1938 – April 23, 1992) was an American professional baseball infielder, outfielder, designated hitter, and coach, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, ...
, and welcomed guitarist Joel Shearer (from the ''Jagged Little Pill
''Jagged Little Pill'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette, released on June 13, 1995, through Maverick. It was her first album to be released worldwide. It marked a stylistic departure from the dance-pop sound of her ...
'' recording sessions) and drummer Gary Novak
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. Morissette herself continued playing guitar (however more so than previous tours) and harmonica. She also started playing the flute in concerts, during the song "That I Would Be Good
"That I Would Be Good" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette that was first included on her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). An acoustic live version of the song was recorded during a sessi ...
".
In January 1999, "The Junkie Tour" kicked off, and lasted through July, then returned in October up until the end of December. Opening acts included Garbage and Liz Phair
Elizabeth Clark Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Phair was raised primarily in the Chicago area. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1990, she attempted to start a musical career ...
, among others. The worldwide tour had alternating setlists for every leg, but included the usual set openers and closers. The concert introduction music was a track from DJ Shadow
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Biography Early years (1989–1995)
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, entitled "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt".
During the tour, Morissette wrote the song "Still" for the Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, YouTuber, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film ''Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co ...
film, ''Dogma
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''. This song was performed live for the first time in July at Morissette's ''VH1 Storytellers
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In each episode, artists perform in front of a (mostly small and intimate) live audience, and tell stories about their music, writing experiences and memories, somewhat ...
'' special. After that special, she performed in front of thousands during the Woodstock '99
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concert festival in New York. Unlike the previous tours, Morissette focused mainly on performing songs that had been released and didn't perform any new songs, aside from a couple of B-sides during the second half of the year.
In May, Morissette and Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full ...
announced the " 5 Week Tour" which filled the touring void in August and September before "The Junkie Tour" re-commenced. The tour would be a joint venture, as they both co-headlined the bills. Toward the end of the tour, Morissette recorded her ''MTV Unplugged
''MTV Unplugged'' is an American television series on MTV showcasing musical artists usually playing acoustic instruments. The show aired regularly from 1989 to 1999 and less frequently from 2000 to 2009, when it was usually billed as ''MTV Un ...
'' concert special. During the final weeks of "The Junkie Tour", keyboardist Deron Johnson left the band and was replaced, and Gary Novak took a temporary leave and was replaced as well.
Morissette announced a summer tour in 2000 called "The One Tour" which kicked off with two dates in North America, before continuing in places she had never toured (or rarely toured) before across Europe and parts of Asia. In each city, she selected an ambassador through a website contest on "Z.com", to show her around and teach her the culture. It was after this tour that Morissette kicked off MSN
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The Microsoft Net ...
and DirecTV
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's concert series, '' Music in High Places'' where she performed acoustic on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, and also learned the cultures, practices, traditions and songs from the natives in the area. This was Morissette's final performance and release that tied into promotion for ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' before she started writing her follow-up, ''Under Rug Swept
''Under Rug Swept'' is the fifth studio album and third internationally released album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. Released by Maverick Records in the United States on February 26, 2002, and in the United Kingdom a day earli ...
''.
Singles
The first single from ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'', "Thank U", was released to US radio in October 1998. It charted considerably high in initial airplay because of the anticipation for the album, but many critics and listeners who had pigeonholed Morissette as an angry woman were surprised by the song's calm and serene feel. Released in November, the album debuted at number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200 with the highest first-week sales for a female artist at the time, selling 469,054 copies in its first seven days. She held this record for two years, until being outsold in first week sales by Britney Spears' '' Oops!...I Did It Again'' which sold 1.3 million copies in 2000. It held the number-one spot for an additional week, before falling to eighth place in what is generally a busy shopping period because of the holiday season. Over the next few weeks sales for the album slowly declined, and then faltered drastically. After 28 weeks, the album had fallen off the ''Billboard'' 200, and as of September 2008 it had sold 2.6 million copies in the US,[Caulfield, Keith]
"Ask Billboard - Losing 'Flavor'"
''Billboard
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''. September 8, 2008. less than a fifth in sales of that of ''Jagged Little Pill
''Jagged Little Pill'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette, released on June 13, 1995, through Maverick. It was her first album to be released worldwide. It marked a stylistic departure from the dance-pop sound of her ...
''.
Though not an official single release in the US, "Joining You
"Joining You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, '' Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). It was released as the album's second single on January 3, 1999. The song distinctly is composed ...
" became a modest hit on the Modern Rock Tracks
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chart; it was released as the album's second single in the UK and Europe. "Unsent
"Unsent" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). The lyrics were written by Morissette, who also composed the music with Glen Ballard. It was released a ...
", the second US single, peaked outside the top 40 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The third single " So Pure" made the top 40 in the UK as well as certain airplay charts in the US, though not the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. None of the singles revived significant interest in the album.
Track listing
Unreleased songs
B-sides and unreleases
There had been many songs performed live during the tour in support of ''Jagged Little Pill
''Jagged Little Pill'' is the third studio album by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette, released on June 13, 1995, through Maverick. It was her first album to be released worldwide. It marked a stylistic departure from the dance-pop sound of her ...
'', and during festivals in between albums that did not appear on the album. It was never specified if those songs were supposed to be included or not, but one of the songs did make its way through, "Can't Not" which was first performed live on January 12, 1996, along with "King of Intimidation" & "No Pressure Over Cappuccino". This version of "Can't Not", however, was slightly more mellow—and differed from the demo version previewed on the home video, ''Jagged Little Pill, Live
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''. The song "King of Intimidation" (also previewed on the video) was never released on any album until the ''Jagged Little Pill'' 2015 deluxe edition, but appeared in a live clip along with the original "Can't Not" live clip on 2005's '' The Collection'' DVD.
"No Pressure Over Cappuccino" was another song that popped up from the previous tours, but not until 1999's live album, ''Alanis Unplugged
''MTV Unplugged'' is the first live album by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on November 9, 1999 (see 1999 in music). It comprises songs performed by Morissette on the television pro ...
''. This song was previewed on the above-mentioned video, but only in acoustic form. That version is mistakenly believed to be a studio demo, but it is merely an acoustic version performed with the band. The final song previewed on ''Jagged Little Pill, Live'' is "Death of Cinderella"; Alanis debuted the song live on December 6, 1995. It had never been released until the ''Jagged Little Pill'' 2015 deluxe edition. Other songs include "Gorgeous", "London", "Pray for Peace" (a.k.a. "She Gave Me a Wink") which has never been released but she played it for the first time in concert on October 18, 1997, and two untitled songs that fans refer to as "The Weekend Song" (or "I Don't Know") which debuted in concert on February 4, 1996, and "After A Year Like This One" on July 12, 1996. A live version of "London" appeared as a B-side to the "Joining You
"Joining You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, '' Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). It was released as the album's second single on January 3, 1999. The song distinctly is composed ...
" and "Unsent
"Unsent" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). The lyrics were written by Morissette, who also composed the music with Glen Ballard. It was released a ...
" singles. The studio version was later released on the ''Jagged Little Pill'' 2015 deluxe edition with "Gorgeous" as well. Both songs debuted in concert on June 8, 1997.
Aside from the songs written and performed during concerts 1995–1997, there were songs specifically written for ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie''. "Pollyanna Flower" was released as a B-side to "Thank U
"Thank U" is a song by Canadian-American recording artist and songwriter Alanis Morissette from her fourth studio album, ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' (1998). The song was written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, who produced h ...
", while "These Are The Thoughts" appeared on the single to "Joining You" (and later on ''Alanis Unplugged''). "Can't Not" was originally intended to be a B-side, but Morissette and Ballard decided to put it on the record. Another song left off the album was "Princes Familiar", whose studio version has yet to surface. It has only been released in live, acoustic form on both ''Alanis Unplugged'' and ''The Collection''
Demo versions
Over the past several years, demos of songs have leaked online. These demos include:
# "Thank U" (with additional verses and lyrics, as well as a more upbeat drum track).
# "Unsent" (not available in high quality, but features two extra verses, and different names).
# "That I Would Be Good" (including Morissette clearing her throat in the beginning, a slight lyric change in one of the verses and a slightly longer flute solo).
# "Can't Not" (30 second clip)
# "Uninvited" (just vocals and piano, officially released on the "Thank U" single and the Japanese and Australian releases).
# "These Are the Thoughts" (features backing vocals and lyric changes, officially released on the ''Jagged Little Pill'' Deluxe edition release).
Personnel
*Alanis Morissette – flute, harmonica
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, piano, vocals, producer, photography
*Glen Ballard
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– synthesizer
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, guitar, piano, programming, producer, engineer, string arrangements
*Benmont Tench
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Early years
Tench was born in Gainesville, Florida, the second child of Benjamin ...
– organ, chamberlin
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* David Campbell – string arrangements
*Scott Campbell – engineer
*Gary Novak
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– percussion, drums
*Joel Shearer – guitar
*Jolie Levine – production coordination
*Nick Lashley – guitar
*Chris Bellman – mastering
*Chris Fogel – programming, engineer, mixing
*Kevin Reagan – art direction, design
*Roger Sommers – engineer, second engineer
*Dash Mihok
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– photography, loop
*Regina Thomas – photography
*Chris Chaney
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– bass guitar
* Stefan G. Bucher – design
*Shad T. Scott – programming
*Heather Stanley – photography
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Notes
References
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1998 albums
Alanis Morissette albums
Maverick Records albums
Albums arranged by David Campbell (composer)
Albums produced by Glen Ballard
Juno Award for Album of the Year albums