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...Canada and mostly (one presumes) 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...
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is Morissette's follow-up to her big success. It's not a great album, but it's a greatly ambitious one. After the big splash of Jagged Little Pill, Morissette slipped into a blind spot of the public's eye. She went to India; she tested her physical limits in a triathlon; she passed on interviews. When she re-entered the studio earlier this year, she had more on her mind and much more to say; the songs on her new CD deal with such issues as false gurus and abusive relationships...
This is not a collection of slick hits, all ready to slide into position over the opening credits of Dawson's Creek (though one wouldn't rule that out). Jagged Little Pill was the kind of album you could listen to straight through, without having to fast-forward past any atrocious songs. But Junkie dares more and misses more--it's a more admirable album than her last but not a more listenable one. A few tunes, like the smooth Unsent, are readily agreeable. But too many, like faulty modem hookups, crackle and wail and fail to connect emotionally. Despite...
...reasons for such popularity are obvious. Unlike condoms, Depo-Provera is a set-it-and-forget-it form of birth control. Unlike the Pill, which demands compliance with a daily dosing schedule, Depo-Provera requires a single visit to a doctor's office for one injection every three months...
What appeals to teens, however, may not appeal to parents. As with the Pill, spontaneous intercourse can mean more intercourse. Worse, when a girl can slip off to a clinic after soccer practice and return home undetectably injected with three months' worth of birth control, parents are taken straight out of the supervisory loop...