Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept (2002-2004)

In 2002, after several dismissals, Alanis Morissette let out her third international album , Under Rug Swept, for the first time as the only author and director. Remarkable was the absence of Glen Ballard, with which she had collaborated in the two album precedence.

From the album the single “Hands Clean” was extracted. The text tells, from two points of view, the history of the relation between a Alanis young person and a older man.

Under Rug Swept toed make one's debut to the first place of Billboard, selling 215,000 copies in the first week. In the United States the sold copies were a million, and in the world, in total, ten million. Also not obtaining some nomination to the Grammy Awards, it made to gain to the singer an other Juno Award like director of the year”.

In December 2002 was published Feast on Scraps, that it included a DVD with a concert from alive and a CD with eight coming unknown songs from the sessions of recording of Under Rug Swept. The album were name to the Juno Awards like “best musical DVD of the year”.

2003 was a transition year. Her change was proven by the new songs introduced to the fans during the summery concerts, like “Excuses” and “I know Called Chaos”, and also the progressive one to shorten herelf, to every concert, of by now longest hats.

In the september of 2003, Morissette made news for a presumed “Thank you, Brazil” (“Thanks, Brasi them!”) exclaimed to the term of a concert to Lima in Peru. In reality the pronounced phrase was an innocuous “Thank you, bless you” (“Thanks, God bless you!”), but by now her reputation was damaged.

In the November 2003, Morissette appeared in play off-Broadway “The Exonerated” in the role of Sunny Jacobs.

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