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Cole Porter: I'm worried about you.
Linda Porter: You don't need to worry about me or your show. It's all taken care of. I'm in God's hands, the show's in yours. I do wish it were the other way around.
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Cole Porter: I have a little something for you. It's a whole new flower. A gentleman in Spain did it up for me. It's a hybrid of two varieties of rose thought to be completely incompatible yet look at it. It's perfect. The Linda Porter rose.
Linda Porter: Exquisite.
Cole Porter: Just a pale reflection of our life together.
Linda Porter: It wasn't all beautiful.
Alanis Morissette
Alanis Morissette, a female rock music superstar that emerged in Canada in the mid-1990s, is still one of the most symbolic representatives of Canadian female singers. Alanis Morissette has been a smooth star since she was a young girl, but she has been constantly seeking breakthroughs, making many transformations, and every time she is very successful, and eventually became one of the most successful female rock singers in music. At the same time, Alanis Morissette’s most successful album "Jagged Little Pill" is an iconic album of women’s rock music in the 90s. She has also won several Juno Awards, Canada’s most authoritative music awards, and has won seven awards. times Grammy Awards .
Performing Experience
Alanis does not seem to have the potential to become a superstar, but the truth is that at the end of the nineties, she was the last selling star. The former TV child star followed the path of Liz Phair and Tori Amos into a deep-seated singer-songwriter as an adult . Her third album "Jagged Little Pill" added enough popularity, a mild hip-hop style and her own insight into the market into the above concept, creating a miracle of selling 16 million copies in a short period of time. .
Alanis Morissette was born in Ottawa, Ontario , Canada on June 1, 1974. He is one of the most famous alternative singers in the mid-1990s. Morissette used to be a child star, later became the darling of the pop dance music world, and eventually became a singer in the alternative music world, and would write his own lyrics and music, keeping pace with Liz Phair and Tori Amos.
Morissette is a native of Ottawa. She began to learn to play the piano and compose lyrics and music when she was a child. At the age of 10, she participated in the shooting of children's TV programs. She used the money she earned from filming to record her first single "Fate Stay with Me", which was released when she was 10 years old. At the age of 14, she signed a contract with Canadian MCA Records. In 1991, she went to Toronto to seek development and released her first album "Alanis".
"Alanis" is an album full of elements of popular dance music that prevailed in Canada at the time. It sold 100,000 copies and won the "Most Popular Singer Award" in the Canadian Juno Awards for Morissette. However, her success at this time is only limited to China. In 1992, Morissette released the album "Now Is the Time", which was similar in style to the previous album. The sales volume of this album is only half of the previous album, and it has only been successful in China. Later, Morissette moved to Los Angeles and met Glen Ballard in 1994. Ballard wrote the famous song "Man In the Mirror" for Michael Jackson and successfully produced his first album for Wilson Phillips. He also collaborated with David Hasselhoff. Inspired by Ballard, Morissette decided to abandon her previous "popular princess" image and change to Alternative Rock 's route. As a result, she launched "Jagged Little Pill" under Madonna's company Maverick. The ending song of "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA" released in the United States in June 2006 chose Alanis Morissette to sing Seal's "CRAZY".
In the summer of 1995, due to the strong impact of the single "You Oughta Know", "Jagged Little Pill" attracted a lot of attention. Soon, this single was played frequently on MTV TV and alternative radio stations, and the album reached the top 10 charts and achieved multi-platinum sales.
However, the well-known female player Alanis Morissette in the pop rock music industry, since a hurricane in 1996, her commercial performance has become less and less attractive. Her 2002 album Under Rug Swept has even sold in the US market. No more than 1 million copies. Her 2004 album So-Called Chaos seems to be declining in the U.S. market. In the first week of release, it only sold less than 115,000 copies, and only ranked fifth on the charts, regardless of its weekly sales. Still ranked far below her previous albums.
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