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Alanis Morissette — Not As We
Album: Flavors of Entanglement
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Released: 2008
Length: 4:38
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Reborn and shivering
Spat out on new terrain
Unsure, unconvincing
This faint and shaky hour

Day one, day one
Start over again
Step one, step one
I'm barely making sense

For now I'm faking it
'Till I'm pseudo-making it
From scratch, begin again
But this time I as I and not as we

Gun-shy and quivering
Timid without a hand
Feign brave with steel intent
Little and hardly here

Day one, day one
Start over again
Step one, step one
With not much making sense

Just yet I'm faking it
'Till I'm pseudo-making it
From scratch, begin again
But this time I as I and not as we

Eyes wet toward
Wide open frayed
If God's taking bets
I pray he wants to lose

Day one, day one
Start over again
Step one, step one
I'm barely making sense

Just yet I'm faking it
'Till I'm pseudo making it
From scratch, begin again
But this time I as I and not as we
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Nice technique.........
Posted 15 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
 sirrus wrote:
Why do I always want to replace "Day One..." with "Red Rum" in the lyrics?
Oh yeah.. because I'm odd.
 

Okay, that's a musical I could get behind...I wonder how Nicholson's singing voice is?
Posted 15 years ago by pinklife    [ Reply ]
Obviously, this is a song about her divorce.  Yeah, I'd run for the door too if I had to listen day after day to that overly-calculated yodel she cultivates as a vocal "style."
Posted 15 years ago by Sorcha    [ Reply ]
Jesus, that's awful, down there with high school "talent" contest crap.
a "1" ... and well-deserved


Posted 15 years ago by megisi    [ Reply ]
Thank goodness Alanis Morissette's 15 minutes are up. She makes me hurl.
Posted 15 years ago by steve_san_carlos    [ Reply ]
sappy
Posted 15 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
At first I thought this was going to be Alanis's  version of "My Humps". (worth a youtube)

Posted 15 years ago by zaknafein    [ Reply ]
 Shimmer wrote:

That's the one part I liked. Yes, it's cutesy, but I think it's sincere and it shows some cleverness and creativity.

 
Someone needs to come to Alanis' defense here, and I'll use this semi-positive comment as a starting point.

Alanis is IMHO a very smart, clever and creative pop artist with a fine voice and some excellent choice of collaborators.

After hearing the first single of her first album, long beyond the overplay, overhype, overeverything occurred, I went to a listening station at a record store and heard the entire album straight through.  It was fresh, ballsy, challenging, rocking, fun, thought provoking, well performed and well produced.  Despite all the over's noted above I continued on to repeated listenings finding particular interest in letsser tracks like Forgiven (which I relate to as a a lapsed catholic) and Not the Doctor.

Damn good album.  The second was good but not as and the idea of following the rest just drifted.  But Jagged Little Pill was excellent.

Posted 15 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
song is fine with me...perhaps it's the grey sky, light rain, relationship ending soon...
Posted 15 years ago by sunny_day    [ Reply ]
 hcaudill wrote:
Did she really say "I'm pseudo-making it?" What a pseudo-intellectual.
 

I believe that she is trying to be 'post-modern'.

Yeah, pretty lame.  We may share a hometown but I ain't impressed.


Posted 15 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
 daveesh wrote:
my hope is that one day she will have just disappeared without anybody noticing.
 
She is one of the very few artists on RP that I can't stomach. Oh well.

Posted 15 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
I simply cannot make up my mind about Alanis.  Ying and Yang.
Posted 15 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
I have heard this elsewhere and I certainly have none of her recordings;  I think it was on an episode of "House".  Well, it doesn't really matter.

Posted 15 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
sarah fimm > new U2 > this = three "2's" in a row.  yikes.
Posted 15 years ago by wrangler    [ Reply ]
von_Hayek wrote:
Unerträglich...


I don't know what this means, but it phonetically matches the gagging sound that came out of my throat when I turned on RP to find this song.
edit: Unbearable

Posted 15 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
Why do I always want to replace "Day One..." with "Red Rum" in the lyrics?
Oh yeah.. because I'm odd.
Posted 15 years ago by sirrus    [ Reply ]
Unerträglich...
Posted 15 years ago by von_Hayek    [ Reply ]
Carly Simon look-alike cover art......................ascerbic.
Posted 15 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
 Shimmer wrote:

That's the one part I liked. Yes, it's cutesy, but I think it's sincere and it shows some cleverness and creativity.

 
No, not cutesy. An instance of a larger problem, namely a rampant epidemic of people trying to sound smarter than they are by throwing around terms like "pseudo-" and "quasi-".

Posted 15 years ago by hcaudill    [ Reply ]
my hope is that one day she will have just disappeared without anybody noticing.
Posted 15 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
 hcaudill wrote:
Did she really say "I'm pseudo-making it?" What a pseudo-intellectual.
 
That's the one part I liked. Yes, it's cutesy, but I think it's sincere and it shows some cleverness and creativity.

Posted 15 years ago by Shimmer    [ Reply ]
Too precious
Posted 15 years ago by MJMJ    [ Reply ]

Another boring, breathy song from Alanis with a failed attempt at clevre wordplay, and unimaginative lyrics. {#Rolleyes}


Posted 15 years ago by purplespider    [ Reply ]
I didn't know there had been another Alanis album last year.  Something else to check out.
Posted 15 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]
I've only heard this here. Heard it a few times now. I'm changing from a 7 to an 8.
Posted 15 years ago by ginger    [ Reply ]
One of her better...later....songs.
Posted 15 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
Ah, from Harriett's sublime vocals (Sundays - Wild Horses) to Alanis' screeching. Sorry Bill, this segue needs some work. Not that you aren't still the master of the segue.
Posted 15 years ago by HarrO    [ Reply ]
6 {#Arrow} 7

She got to me today.
Posted 15 years ago by coffee-eyes    [ Reply ]
 lsherida wrote:
Am I especially irritable today, or have the last few songs really been that bad?
 
Must be the former. The last few songs have really lifted me ... course given the uniqueness of the individual psyches tis possible we're both correct.
Posted 15 years ago by Jodiferus    [ Reply ]
Wow. This was the first voice I heard this morning. Think I'll go back to bed and try again.
Posted 15 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
i knew it.  ugh.  i think i killed any love for alanis when i listened to her "jagged little pill" WAY too much in college.
Posted 15 years ago by phillips    [ Reply ]
Am I especially irritable today, or have the last few songs really been that bad?
Posted 15 years ago by lsherida    [ Reply ]

Nuance is completely lost on this woman.



Posted 15 years ago by keller1    [ Reply ]
I give it a 3, but it's not really "ho hum," rather it's cloying. 3's generous, come to think of it.
Posted 15 years ago by MJMJ    [ Reply ]
Very nice!
Posted 15 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]
Wow and Douche Mode on the LRC. It's like being caught in a giant pair of scissors.
Posted 15 years ago by vit    [ Reply ]
 flyboy wrote:
The Neko Case song played after this puts this to shame.
 

And the Concrete Blonde song that follows it now kicks it to the curb!

Posted 16 years ago by nigelr    [ Reply ]
The Neko Case song played after this puts this to shame.
Posted 16 years ago by flyboy    [ Reply ]
Did she really say "I'm pseudo-making it?" What a pseudo-intellectual.
Posted 16 years ago by hcaudill    [ Reply ]
gimme a break. this is crap. she's faking it alright.

Posted 16 years ago by daveesh    [ Reply ]
She is growing up .... i like ...

Oscar 
Posted 16 years ago by oscar_driver    [ Reply ]
God, have I ever been there.
Whew.

Good job with the lyrics.  Not overdone, very poignant.
Posted 16 years ago by agnes    [ Reply ]

Normally I love Alanis, but I think this song might make my penis fall off.



Posted 16 years ago by rickbeec    [ Reply ]
 Smoove_D wrote:
I know a lot of people hate Alanis. I've never minded her. And I think this song is somewhat beautiful, with a good balance of simpleness and emotion.
 
Agreed. Very nice.
Posted 16 years ago by ginger    [ Reply ]
Thanks for adding and playing my upload, Bill! {#Cheers}
Posted 16 years ago by aquadonia    [ Reply ]
Would have to agree...simple and very pretty.

 Smoove_D wrote:
I know a lot of people hate Alanis. I've never minded her. And I think this song is somewhat beautiful, with a good balance of simpleness and emotion.
 


Posted 16 years ago by deathmstrss    [ Reply ]
I know a lot of people hate Alanis. I've never minded her. And I think this song is somewhat beautiful, with a good balance of simpleness and emotion.
Posted 16 years ago by Smoove_D    [ Reply ]