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...about whether he would like to do a book, "but Nicholas was the only one who offered to pay in advance," Kirk says. Nicholas is Nicholas Callaway, a publisher and packager of luxe books on photography, design and fashion, including Madonna's notorious Sex book (which explains why the popstress had a copy of Tea Party handy for her MTV gig). Children's books were a departure for him, but something told him he could sell Kirk's work...
That's good because such relationship-speak allows Morissette, 27, to be specific. On her third album as a rock singer-songwriter (she released two as a teen popstress), she tells her men precisely which behaviors please her, which irk her and which of her demands are nonnegotiable. On the song Surrendering, she sings, "I embrace you for your faith in the face of adversarial forces." The line swings like a dump truck, but it's charmingly transparent. Even when her words are simple, she likes to cram in as many as the rhythm allows, for clarity's sake...
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