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Date Posted: 11:53:31 12/03/03 Wed
Author: Ana Carolina de Carvalho
Subject: TASK 9

I have quite a varied taste for music and can go from classical music to rap as long as the tune pleases my ear.
When doing the assignment many bands and names from my childhood ran through my mind: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors (those were the "lullabies" my father sang/played to us when we were kids). Eventually one crossed my mind and it brought so many sweet memories to me.
I am still not sure she is my all time favorite singer but Alanis Morissette has definitely been part of my life.
She came out as a hit in 1995, and I lived in the United States then. The first time I heard her song on the radio, I was struck by her strong voice and the way she skilfully played the gaita (I looked up the word "gaita" in two dictionaries and both had the word gaita in English. I'm still not secure about using this word. Is there a better one?)
She had released other albums before her greatest hits, but the smashing one was Jagged Little Pill. Some people say the songs reflect her own experience and some mean comments say that she is an unloved woman who disses men. Anyway, I think her music is great and she herself has said that there is a confessional component about the songs (she is, indeed, talking about herself to some extent). I just wonder how these people who criticize her so much for her lyrics could explain how she has won seven Grammy Awards.
To me it was really interesting learning that before she became a singer, she had a role on a TV show called You Can't Do That on Televison. The reason why I was surprised was that the show was on Nickelodeon - an American channel I used to watch as a child in the United States.

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