Alanis Morissette at Charlie Rose (1999)

Singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette talks about her new albums, "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" and "Alanis Unplugged".
Aired on 12/17/1999

[@NorbiGaming]

She is mesmerizing in a way.

[@lolameraz536]

SH'S NTS!

[@lolameraz536]

SINCE THE 90s!!!

[@JasonQiuMusic]

Great questions and conversation. Charlie really shows genuine curiosity and never sounds presumptuous or asks clichéd questions.

[@gregfuller2387]

Beautiful soul!❤💚💜

[@julianlewis1792]

🙏

[@beeztrapp1612]

Thank U, Alanis.

[@victorhason2902]

WOWOWOOWOW amazing what an intelegant young woman talking so quietly.. not knowing how great she is how great the future is going to be. sure it is after 2 international suucecful albums but still.. she is only Twenty Five years old thats it. i just love her so much

[@timblock3483]

She is so beautiful.

[@eleanor4759]

I was born 1 year after this interview. SO grateful that I can watch it now 💜

[@joewesterland5697]

I was born 2 years before. I could have watched it but would probably have rather played lego at the time.

[@eleanor4759]

@@joewesterland5697 🤣

[@MrFIRESEAL117]

The first two albums I've had as a twelve-year-old was Jagged Little Pill and Pearl Jam - live on two legs.

[@gaylefranklin]

@@eleanor4759 you certainly did not ask me but may i answer? Yesterday, I listened to Wake Up for really the first time. It was the song, along with Head Over Feet that I regularly skipped. Even on the acoustic rerelease…. However,,, Wake Up is AMAZING

[@eleanor4759]

@@gaylefranklin Wake Up is one of my favourite songs of all time 😭😭💕

[@pips1zx]

OMG A Wonderful Woman

[@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar]

Oh she knows how great she is and how “intelegant” she is.

[@Sweetish_Jeff_]

❤️ Alanis

[@adagiobreeze8493]

I love that she loves Fiona Apple

[@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar]

I love that you love that Alanis loves Fiona Apple

[@adagiobreeze8493]

@@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar I love that you love that I love that Alanis loves Fiona !

[@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar]

@@adagiobreeze8493 even after editing, you still didn’t get it right. At least we are certain your mother loves you. Doesn’t she?🥹

[@adagiobreeze8493]

@@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar she doesn’t, luckily yours does ( edited)

[@12ca]

​@@MyOneFiftiethOfADollarMe, Alanis, Fiona and @adagiobreeze8493 are very sorry your parents doesn't love you, but maybe your cat does.

[@johngalt5411]

Gosh I miss this show

[@Extrikit]

After that introduction, who needs the interview?

[@coreybender6191]

Wish Charlie would have asked about her singing voice, was she trained, natural, how it came to be

[@aidealvesrochaantunes1478]

Muito lindo os dois se entendendo pena não ter a tradução em português.

[@jmccarty82]

where TF is that blasted book - we've been waiting for years

[@UltimateAwe]

Alanis in this interview: “Yeah” lol

[@ericwatts-et2nl]

Is it possible to bring Charlie back? Has he done his time? I really don't know.

[@lolameraz536]

CUANDO LOS HIPPIES LO TENÍAN AUN MAS FÁCIL!!!😟

[@lolameraz536]

iREINA DE LOS PROGRES!!!

[@joehernandez3822]

She reminds me of MAC MILLER SO MUCH...

[@Bonzeaux_Bleuxgrene]

She reminds me of Lil Wayne

[@jmccarty82]

@@Bonzeaux_Bleuxgrene she reminds me of Ice Spice

[@zackisgreasy4503]

These kinds of interviews are fascinating for so many reasons, but his one in particular for a variety. Alanis is so intelligent and specifically spoken and also so enchanting to watch. I think that surpasses any other reason to watch. That being said I am intrigued by the sort of unfortunate discomfort and chauvinism occurring throughout. The way Charlie seems to answer everything for her (even within the formation of the question) it also feels as if she is painfully aware that he does not read into her earnest responses. She truly takes everything she says very seriously and he seems to sort of not buy any of it. It is subtle but definitely noticeable and sort of disguised as engagement. It can be frustrating to watch, to see her undermined for her gender and her youth- but I say that its intriguing because of the way in which she handles it, and as a timestamp of misogynies at the time.

[@ryanjosey5079]

exactly what im thinking as im watching this...its almost like he doesnt know how to have a conversation as deep as shes answering his questions. she even shoots back at him in a subtle way with a couple of her answers.

[@Maya-zh8bk]

Interview is set up like an interigation. Why does he keep answering every question he asks?

[@RealShadyUnicorn]

why was it described as "sexy anger" though. yuck.

[@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar]

It was “sexy anger” based on her lyrics of going down on her boyfriend in the theater.

[@RealShadyUnicorn]

@@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar she may have the right to call it that. But, in my opinion. HE did not. She didnt write the song for his sexual desires but to express her anger and emotion.

[@MyOneFiftiethOfADollar]

@@RealShadyUnicorn alanis chose to make a living by singing and entertaining. She states in her lyrics that she performed fellatio on her ex in a movie theater(you reacted with YUCK to this being characterized as sexy anger) As much as you admire her, she was just another horny teenager who happened to be talented and attractive. She profited immensely off of her expression of her “sexual anger” whether you agree with it or not. It’s really easy for her appear charming and composed, but she was just another angry adolescent like many of us at that time of our lives. She made astonishing bonding connections with hundreds of millions of people worldwide. She probably never thought she she would become a global icon when she shared lyrically that she gave an old boyfriend HEAD at the movies. Middle school girls do things like that routinely. It’s normal and hardly worth mentioning. “And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back” Alanis is sexy and was ANGRY and that is OK So what exactly is your PROBLEM with all this?!?

[@JimmyKlef]

You’re probably right but i have definitely been told by girls growing up and into my twenties that my anger was sexy. It did also upset me a little. And those relationships didn’t last. Lol. But I’ve heard it thrown around to a few people. Pretty unsavory from people trying to have a relationship honestly. Like, so do you make me angry in order to be attracted to me? Not good. For sure.

[@rickwalker6400]

She is obviously so uncomfortable it hurts to watch

[@burnlikeneon4044]

She obviously didn’t have to do the interview. It was her choice.

[@drefrazier4266]

I think it's more CR's approach. He was almost asking questions like a 15 year old with a crush

[@lemdixon01]

Can she sing about something other than relationships or neuroticism ?

[@devon_darko]

She does

[@deadroomeyes8965]

Maybe its not for you Kris. Go listen to cock rock or whatever.

[@yamil.343]

Can you write a song at all?

[@callmesasha9202]

Before there was Taylor swift. There was Alanis

[@drefrazier4266]

Polar opposites