Alanis

I agree Rod. Exactly. Your interpetation of her I believe is correct.
In fact I have read that she said she does feel more feminine with her new short 'do, and dresses more feminine, wearing dresses, makeup, nice earrings, etc.
She's in love too, which always makes a woman feel more feminine.

Vineman, I think it's sad that Alanis chopped her hair to rid herself of her last vestige of femininity, but this board is supposed to be fun. I, too, am drawn to feminine tresses, but you are WAY too angry! Hair issues are not life and death matters. Bob

That's the one. Because she felt it was unneccessarily feminine. I'm not sure why, but something about that *really* bothers me.

Alanis somehow saw her long hair as her "last piece of stereotypical femininity" and recognized the need to change. She was also quoted somewhere else as saying, I should have done this a long time ago.

Source: MTV Online

Alanis Isn't Angry Anymore..She's In Love

Isn't it ironic? Alanis Morissette is feeling romantic. The singer most often associated with the proverbial "woman scorned" actually has love songs on her new album, So-Called Chaos.

"I just really feel like I've arrived at a place where I'm ready," she said. "I'm ready to commit to someone and ready to do the work. And I'm ready to allow that part of myself to come out. I think for a long time, because of my compulsively wanting to be viewed as an überfeminist, I would really stay away from things like being a hopeless romantic, being dependent on a man, or even wanting to be with a man, frankly."

But now that she and her boyfriend, Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds ("Van Wilder"), have been together for two years, she's rethought the matter. Her songs "Knees of My Bees" and first single "Everything" celebrate the relationship.

And she cut her hair — her famously long hair that shielded her body when she appeared naked in the "Thank U" video — because the shearing symbolized her no longer needing to hide behind what she calls her "last piece of stereotypical femininity." She now allows herself to be feminine in other areas of her life, such as "emotionally, letting [people] take care of me in ways I wouldn't have in the past." Now she looks forward to having a life partner and wants to see marriage happen not only for herself, but for other couples as well.

"It's blowing my mind," she said. "I look forward to growing old with my boyfriend, the both us growing old and wrinkly together. I heard this really great metaphor, that being in a long-term relationship is like a Ferris wheel, whether you stay when it's on the bottom or whether you get off, and I'm realizing at this point in my life that I'm not getting off, finally. Now I know it's an ongoing journey of us helping each other, healing each other, killing each other, laughing together. It's sexy, it's everything."

When Morissette's best friend from high school and her boyfriend recently reached the same point in their relationship, Morissette became an ordained minister so she could perform the marriage. Now she hopes to do that for more couples, gay and straight.

"I don't have any gay-couple friends who are formally engaged, but I would be honored to support the gay community in that way," she said. "I did it as a sort of spontaneous thing at a radio station about a month ago with a couple, and my heart was so with them."

With that thought in mind, Morissette changed a line in her song "Ironic" when she performed it at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's 15th annual awards ceremony in March: "It's meeting the man of my dreams, then meeting his beautiful husband."

Fittingly, Morissette's next movie role is in a film that explores love and marriage via the lives of closeted composer Cole Porter (played by Kevin Kline) and his wife (Ashley Judd). Due June 25, "De-Lovely" looks back on Porter's life as if it were one big musical production, so Morissette gets to do "some singing, some dancing, some barely acting" as she joins performers Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello and Sheryl Crow, among others. She picked Porter's "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" to sing in her cameo, because it fit not just the movie, but her own life as well.

"I'm just allowing myself to be that giggly little girl, the giggly little princess that I never allowed myself to be," Morissette said. "It doesn't mean the competent and powerful feminist isn't still within me. It's still there whenever I want it."

—Jennifer Vineyard

Source:MTV Online

Vineman_ wrote: I still feel she was cutting her hair for the wrong reasons, though.

You know why she cut her hair? Please share that reason.. l can't wait to here this?

The reason Alanis cut her hair is because she felt like it. That's what she said in an interview. That hardly seems like a wrong reason.

A wrong reason would be if someone else forced her to cut her hair, not if she chose to cut her hair because she wanted to, whatever her reason for wanting to wear short hair.

... I was never a big fan of Alanis Morrisette. I diidnt' like her new song anyway, it seemed too samey.
I really liked Jagged Little Pill, and some stuff of her next album, but that's about it.

And as I said, I am a fan of Siouxsie Sioux, who had hair as short as that at times, she just looked good in it, and Sioux had a hell of a lot of more to fall back on than her her.

I never commented on Alanis as a musician, that's just absurd. And most people liked Alanis with long hair better. It's fair enough to cut hair if you want to, but the attitude of some people around here towards really annoys the people who prefered her in short hair.

I still feel she was cutting her hair for the wrong reasons, though.

Jacqui, I am still a big fan of Alanis' music, including her recent release. And, I think she'd look pretty with any non-boyish style. She looks plenty cute now. But I can't pretend that Alanis hasn't lost that intangible mystique and awesome power that her trademark locks gave her.
Brent, I know many guys love short hair, but what I'm saying is that she's now one of many attractive fishes in the sea for men who think long hair is divine. Best, Bob

How bout the new fans she gained when she went to her short hairdo. There are more of us guys around who like short hair on women than you might realize.

Also many women wear short hair and like seeing female celebrities with short hair.

But I have always liked Alanis's music, regardless of her hairstyle. Her hairstyle to me is irrelevant as long as she keeps making great music.

I applaud Alanis for doing as she wished with herself and her hair. She looks great. As far as those who ditched her when she cut her hair, well, I guess they really weren't fans of her music...I guess this is good for her as now she knows who her real fans are.

Jacqui