

“I feel like if I do one, I’m going to want to do so many more.” Her idol offers a word of advice: “Don’t get a tattoo unless you’ve been married 47 years.” “No! I just turned 18!” Rodrigo says with a laugh. Soon, they get more personal, with Morissette asking Rodrigo if she has any tattoos. Prior to the interview, they casually discuss topics that range from Halloween (Rodrigo’s favorite holiday) to Germany (where Morissette briefly lived as a child). Morissette rocks firecracker-red heels, while Rodrigo is disco-ready in platform leather boots that she swears are comfortable. The two songwriters - who are big fans of each other’s music, but have never met before today - sit facing one another in dark blazers in a San Francisco warehouse overlooking the Pacific. If anyone can understand the roller coaster that Olivia Rodrigo has been on this year, it’s Alanis Morissette. We’ll be rolling out all 10 stories this week and next, so check back often.
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Each story in this year’s series will appear in our November 2021 print issue, hitting stands on November 2nd - with four special covers, including this one. She added that she “came to realise later” that perhaps she should have been more careful about agreeing to put the song on her 1995 album, since she’s put up with decades of “shaming” over the song’s not-always-ironic lyrics.Welcome to Rolling Stone’s 2021 Musicians on Musicians package, the annual franchise where two great artists come together for a free, open conversation about life and music.

But people wound up really liking the melody, and I wasn’t that precious about it.” That was one of the first songs we wrote, almost like a demo to get our whistles wet. “And I remember a lot of people going, ‘Please please, please.’ So I said,’Ok’. “I didn’t even want it on the record,” Morissette told Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. Recently, Morissette revealed that she didn’t originally want her hit single ‘Ironic’ to feature on her classic record ‘Jagged Little Pill’. Speaking in a recent interview, Morissette said that she regarded the song as more of a demo but bowed to pressure from people who liked it. Isolation is the lighting of the match.”Īlanis Morissette performs at Shepherds Bush Empire Credit: Rob Ball/WireImage “At 3pm, I might feel: ‘Wow, this is a huge gift, I’m so overwhelmed with gratitude.’ By 3.15pm, I’m raging. Morissette also opened up about the struggles of lockdown with her ongoing recovery. Speaking about the importance of therapy in her life, Morissette added: “If I didn’t have a whole team of therapists throughout my life, I don’t think I’d still be here.” Speaking about her addictions, Morissette said her main ones were “work addiction, love addiction and food addiction.” The musician also revealed that she’d suffered from an eating disorder since childhood. Speaking to The Guardian, the Canadian rock star described herself as “ such an addict” and said that without therapy, she’s not sure how she would have coped.

Alanis Morissette has opened up about addiction and therapy in a new interview.
