The Untold Truth Of Alanis Morissette

Publish date: 2024-05-05

By early 1998, the nearly 13 million people who'd purchased Jagged Little Pill were antsy for any new material from Alanis Morissette. Her follow-up: a cut on the tie-in soundtrack of the Nicolas Cage supernatural romantic drama City of Angels. That album, including Morissette's epic, string-backed power ballad "Uninvited," was scheduled for release on March 31, 1998, but the song leaked early, according to Newsbytes (via MTV), hitting the radio on March 6.

Radio stations around the world, including major Los Angeles alternative rock broadcaster KROQ, played the bootleg on the air, and a number of listeners recorded it and uploaded it to their personal websites. The Recording Industry Association of America sprung into action, managing to entirely shut down sites that posted the unauthorized track. But even in 1998, once something was on the internet, it was on the internet for good. So rather than let radio stations keep playing a poorly recorded copy of Morissette's song, label Warner Music released the entire soundtrack to radio weeks before it was available in stores.

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