So Unsexy

Infobox Single
Name = So Unsexy


Caption = German "Under Rug Swept" album sampler
Artist = Alanis Morissette
from Album = Under Rug Swept
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 2003 (Brazil)
Format = Promotional single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop/Rock
Length = 5:08
Label = Maverick
Writer = Alanis Morissette
Producer = Alanis Morissette
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Utopia"
(2003)
This single = "So Unsexy"
(2003)
Next single = "Offer"
(2004)
Misc =

"So Unsexy" is a pop rock song written by Alanis Morissette, and produced by her for her sixth album, "Under Rug Swept" (2002).

Background and theme

According to Morissette, "So Unsexy" "basically speaks of the process of how loving myself can affect everything and change everything. Why when I don't take care of myself, or love myself or feel connected to my definition of God, everything's very painful and disjointed and disconnected and ... depressing, to be totally honest."van der Kooy, Dan and Cook, Shanon. [http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/05/mroom.alanis.morissette/index.html "Alanis not about to be swept under the rug"] . CNN. July 5 2002. Retrieved April 5 2002.] Morissette said that when she wrote the song, she was trying to investigate "the underbelly of some of my insecurities and why little tiny things that are innocuous and inconsequential are translated in my own mind as to be taken so personally. And that has happened and still happens a lot, and while I think it's very human, it's exhausting. But as long as I have my own back, it's not as scary and it's not as horrifying." [http://www.msopr.com/mso/morissette-cutbycut.html "Alanis Morissette talks about songs from 'Under Rug Swept'"] . MSO. Retrieved April 5 2007.]

Release

"Billboard" wrote that "So Unsexy" "show [s] Morissette proudly wearing her affection for concise, pure-pop hooks".Flick, Larry. "Alanis Excels On Her Own". "Billboard". January 19 2002, vol. 114, iss. 3, pg. 1.] A separate review in the magazine of "Under Rug Swept" described it as "funky ... truly an every (wo)man's tale". ["Album Reviews". "Billboard". March 2 2002. Retrieved January 28 2007.] The "LA Weekly" said that it "pleases, spilling a guitar wash over the hip-hop beat of Biz Markie's 'Nobody Beats the Biz'". [Lewis, Miles Marshall. [http://www.laweekly.com/music/music-reviews/cool-schmool/10621/ "Music Reviews"] . "LA Weekly". March 13 2002. Retrieved January 28 2007.] At the 2003 Juno Awards, "So Unsexy" and "Hands Clean", another song on "Under Rug Swept", won Morissette the "Jack Richardson Producer of the Year" award. [ [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2002/2002junob.htm "2002 33rd Juno Awards"] . "Los Angeles Times". Retrieved January 28 2007.]

"So Unsexy" was considered for commercial release as the album's third single, but other songs were chosen as radio- and promo-only releases instead; the song was, however, promoted in Brazil. The music video for the single, derived from the DVD release "Feast on Scraps", is a performance of the song at Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands on August 13 2002, during Morissette's Toward Our Union Mended Tour.

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