Olivia Rodrigo, Alanis Morissette.Photo: JMEnternational/JMEnternational for BRIT Awards/Getty Images; Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images
Olivia Rodrigois gearing up to presentAlanis Morissettewith a career-high honor.
Morissette was revealed as one of the2022 Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fameinductees on Tuesday, and the prestigious organization announced that Rodrigo will appear at the ceremony to induct the “You Oughta Know” singer-songwriter.
“I remember hearing Alanis for the first time when I was about 13. I was in the car with my parents whenJagged Little Pillcame on,” said Rodrigo, 19, in astatementto the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The “Good 4 U” musician continued, “I heard ‘Perfect,’ [and] I was like, ‘Oh, my God… You can write songs like that?’ I just looked at music and songwriting in a completely different way.”
Other artists who will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Morissette this year includeBryan Adams, Jim Vallance,David Fosterand Daniel Lavoie. Among the musicians performing tributes to the aforementioned inductees are Chad Kroeger and Ryan Peake ofNickelback, Corey Hart, Jessie Reyez, Charlotte Cardin, Serena Ryder, Neil Donell of Chicago and Deborah Cox.
Rodrigo’s position as Morissette’s inductee marks the two musicians' third recent encounter. Last year, they interviewed each other forRolling Stone’s Musicians on Musicians issueand bonded over opting not to read anything written about them in media and on the internet.
Rodrigo agreed, telling theAlter Egojudge that she’s had a similar showbiz experience and also no longer reads about herself — particularly because she feels as though young women like herself are held to “an incredibly unrealistic standard.”
Olivia Rodrigo and Alanis Morissette.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
“I’ve taken the same route as you have and just don’t look at it,” Rodrigo said. “I don’t think anyone is meant to look at that stuff. I don’t think we as human beings are supposed to know what thousands of people think about what we wore or what we said or how we talk. I think having separation is really important — realizing that that’s not real life, you know what I mean? That world that is created online, it’s just one facet of this very big human existence.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, the women bonded over the fact that they’ve both written critically acclaimed break-up records:SourandJagged Little Pill.
“I think love and anger and pain are energies that move worlds,” Morissette said. “They open things up, they start the currents moving again if something’s stuck.”
In May, Morissette joined Rodrigo onstage at her Sour Tour concert at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles andsurprised fans with a duet of “You Oughta Know.”
After the performance, Rodrigo appeared exhilarated and said, “That’s truly the craziest thing that ever happened to me.”
source: people.com
