Alanis Gets Her Ya-Yas Out
April 30th, 2006
Canadian rocker Alanis Morissette used her homeland’s recent Juno awards to mock America’s puritanical obsession with indecency and the conservative uproar over Janet Jackson showing her breast during the Super Bowl.
She showed up for the Canadian equivalent to the Grammys wearing a flesh-colored bodysuit with realistic breasts and pubic hair, only to be told by the shows producers that she couldn’t go onstage in it. Alanis ripped off the offending fake body parts and went out anyway, bringing shock and laughter from the audience. She was not only commenting on the overreaction to the Jackson incident, but also protesting her own recent censorship issue. “As you may or may not be aware, recently in the United States, I ran into a little problem with regards to a lyric in one my songs, which includes the lyric, ‘I can be an asshole of the grandest kind.’ It was requested that I change a word in the first verse.
Well, I am overjoyed to be back in my homeland, the true North - strong and censor-free,” Alanis explained. My only question is whether that bush she ripped off was nicely groomed or was it a jungle down there?
