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...sometime before adopting a stylish sense of ironic detachment, today's collegiate sophisticates paid reverence to teen idols. In that angstful era when first kisses were still wishes, when cuffed jeans, jelly bracelets and crimped hair were still in, the children of the 80s absorbed Duran Duran, Madonna and Tiffany...
...either. You were naked in Madonna's book...
...wasn't. I had my pants on. But the way they photoed it didn't show my lower half, and Madonna was completely naked, so it looked like I was naked. That's one of my regrets...
...Little Pill gathered a small fan base in the early summer of 1995, building momentum through word-of-mouth until it rocketed to worldwide sales of 28 million. Maybe it was her media savvy--her ability to shun interviews and avoid overexposure, even though her record was promoted by Madonna-helmed Maverick Records...
...among people there who don't read lyric sheets. After her uninspired 1992 follow-up, Now Is the Time, which included a wistful song about standing in the rain outside a Rod Stewart concert, her career stalled. But Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill (1995), her first for Madonna's Maverick records, was her breakthrough. On it she no longer portrayed herself as a peppy pop princess but as a brash young woman with demands, demons--and desires. This new Morissette craved "intellectual intercourse." This new Morissette sang about irony, revenge and sex acts in theaters. Jagged Little Pill...