Alanis Morissette
When Alanis Morissette landed in Los Angeles in March 1994, the city was still reeling from a devastating earthquake. Glen Ballard, the lyricist behind Michael Jackson’s “Man In The Mirror”, was one of the locals affected by the natural disaster. He had barely managed to put his recording space back together when the 19-year-old singer walked through the door.
Morissette was in town for a specific reason. At the time, the artist was virtually unknown in the US but a sensation in her native Canada. A former child star with two fizzy dance-pop albums under her belt, she was desperate to establish herself with a new sound. For that, Morissette needed a writing partner. Enter Ballard, and his earthquake-shaken studio.
Together, the pair collaborated on hit after hit after hit: the seriously catchy “Ironic” (which is famously not ironic),
