The day I wrote it, we were recording the album, and we had just hired Jorge Casas and Clay Ostwald and a new drummer, and we were getting ready to go hardcore on this tour.
We were talking about relationships, and someone in the band had just broken up with someone, and it started me thinking about what I would feel if we were not to be together. The song in a way was about Emilio, because he is at the core of so many of my songs, whether they are autobiographical or not. That one has already been filled and I have several, but when I look back for any reason to “Anything for You,” there were practically zero changes. I wrote it on this giant leather-bound book. Some songs come through me, and I’m kind of the vehicle. 1” because it had all happened while we were in the air. We were on tour and arriving in Japan and when we landed the whole record company was there waiting for us with signs that said “Congratulations You’re No. Recorded by: Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine I’m just grateful to Diablo Cody and the entire team for every reflection of every song. And now this whole record that we made in 1995 went on to become this incredible musical. All of this mattering about, “Is this ironic or not?” It’s actually fun, and it helped the song become a huge hit. I’ve taken so much criticism about the meaning of ironic and irony, and I literally have an English degree. We were just lucky to have that record come out. They put it on as the 10th track and I was fine with that. I’m the only one who wanted to include this song on the record. at Maverick Records, and Guy Oseary heard it and he said, “We should do this.” And Madonna embraced it. Our saving grace is that we ended up at 8000 Beverly Blvd. We shopped them to almost every major label in L.A. We created all of the demos in my studio. We created Jagged Little Pill without any record company support, believe me. The whole thing so deeply, wonderfully, magically, mystically evolved. How many 19-year-olds can you have that kind of conversation with? And conceptually she understood it right from the downbeat. We had a conversation about just how life goes this way and it goes that way.
“It’s a black fly in your chardonnay/ It’s a death row pardon two minutes too late.” We were just kicking that s–t around. We would start with an idea musically and then we would just chase it, and she would sit on the floor and continually refine the idea.
to write songs, and they put her with Glen Ballard. A guy named John Alexander at MCA Music Publishing in Canada was her publisher and they sent her to L.A. “Ironic” was the third song I wrote with Alanis. The following are excerpts from interviews with some of this year’s honorees, in their own words.Ĭhart peak: No. Post Malone will be honored with the Hal David Starlight Award, which was established in 2004 and carries the name of Burt Bacharach’s longtime songwriting partner and SHOF chairman emeritus, for his support of young songwriters. Rice is the first songwriter primarily known for his work in theater to receive this award since Stephen Sondheim in 1999. EGOT designee Tim Rice, who was inducted into the SHOF in 1999, will receive the Johnny Mercer Award, which goes to a writer already inducted into Song Hall who has established a history of outstanding creative works. The organization will also bestow two special awards at the gala. Sade Adu and Snoop Dogg, who were selected as honorees this year, will be inducted in the future. This year’s honorees are Gloria Estefan Jeff Lynne, the chief architect of Electric Light Orchestra Glen Ballard, Alanis Morrisette’s collaborator on Jagged Little Pill Teddy Riley, credited as the creator of the new jack swing genre and Taylor Swift collaborator Liz Rose. The Songwriters Hall of Fame will officially induct its newest members at the organization’s 52nd annual Induction and Awards Gala on Thursday, June 15 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York and as is our tradition, Billboard caught up with the hitmakers to get the stories behind the songs. The songwriter who introduced Michael Jackson to the new jack swing sound. The story behind Taylor Swift’s monumental “All Too Well.” The genesis of a song that ironically almost didn’t make it onto Alanis Morissette’s blockbuster album Jagged Little Pill.
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