Uninvited (song)

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Uninvited
Alanis Morissette
publication February 24, 1998
length 4:36
Genre (s) Progressive rock
Author (s) Alanis Morissette
album City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture

Uninvited [ ˌʌnɪnˈvaɪtɪd ] is a song by the Canadian composer and singer Alanis Morissette . The single is the second track on the soundtrack to the US feature film Stadt der Engel ("City of Angels") from March 1998. It was Morissette's first recording after her internationally successful debut album Jagged Little Pill from 1995.

Morissette composed the song and produced it with Rob Cavallo. The song is based on four repetitive piano notes (d² – a² – b² – a²) and increases to an instrumental climax with a haunting atmosphere, which is accompanied by a cryptic lyrics .

publication

Uninvited was released by US radio stations in March 1998 and achieved substantial airplay on radio by August . The North American alternative radio station KROQ broadcast a leaked version of Uninvited on March 6, 1998 . The radio broadcast was recorded and made available on the Internet. This forced the Warner Music Group to release the soundtrack even before the official start of sales, which was scheduled for March 31st. According to a spokesman for Warner Music Canada , the measure was an "inconvenience" intended to prevent radio stations from playing the low-quality Internet version. After the leak, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) forced several website operators to remove the song from their website. According to Newsbytes , several websites were affected, including those in the metropolises of Los Angeles , London and Mexico City . Unauthorized material has been removed and, in some cases, entire websites have been taken offline. The action was part of a campaign by the RIAA to prevent unauthorized reproduction of sound recordings on the Internet.

composition

Uninvited is a song with an "unforgettable melody and a melancholy atmosphere" to cryptic lyrics. The emotional song has a tempo of 66 beats per minute and is composed in the key of G minor to match the melancholy mood .

{\ new PianoStaff << \ new Staff {\ tempo 4 = 66 \ clef violin \ key g \ minor \ time 4/4 {fis'4 r4 fis'8 g'8 a'8 fis'8 (f'8) d'8 r8 fis'8 (fis'8) g'8 a'8 bes'8}} \ addlyrics {Like an - y - one would be, I am flat - tered} \ new Staff {\ clef violin \ key g \ minor \ time 4/4 {d''4 a''4 bes''4 a''4 d''4 a''4 bes''4 a''4}} >>}

The studio version has a length of 4:36 min. Strings and guitar kick in after 53 seconds and contrast the dragged drums, at 3:20 the singing ends and the song closes with instrumental music .

The lyrics deal with the disparaging rejection of love by a woman:

“Like any hot-blooded woman, I simply wanted an object to crave. But you, you're not allowed. You're uninvited. An unfortunate slight. "

“Like any hot-blooded woman, I just wanted an object to crave. But you, you are not allowed. You are uninvited. A regrettable hurt. "

Awards

At the 1999 Grammy Awards , Uninvited was nominated in the three categories of Best Female Rock Vocal Performance , Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television and Best Rock Song , the latter two of which it won.

It also won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Film and Television Music Award in the Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures category . At the Golden Globe Awards 1999 the song got a nomination in the category Best Movie Song .

Although no official single was ever sold through retail outlets, the song became a hit. It was Morissette's fourth number one single on the US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream Charts and reached number 5 on the Adult Top 40 and Top 40 on the Modern Rock Tracks charts. In total, over 7 million copies were sold worldwide by the end of 1999.

Music video

For Uninvited no official was music video rotated, but the recordings of three live acts published. The first documented performance was at the 1999 Grammy Awards , the second was shown on Morissette's DVD / CD package Feast on Scraps in 2002 , and another is on the Extended Cut of the VH1 storyteller : Alanis Morissette from 2005.

Sound carrier

Uninvited was not on the studio album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie contain, published on November 3, 1998, but a demo version was on the Australian and British CD single of Thank U . The compilation Alanis Morissette: The Collection (2005) was the first album that included the version recorded in the recording studio . Acoustic versions of the song appeared on Morissette's MTV Unplugged recording in 1999 and on DVD Live in the Navajo Nation on August 27, 2002 . The latter recording was made as part of the Music In High Places television series on the US pay-TV channel DirecTV in the Navajo Nation Reservation .

  • 04/06/1998 - City of Angels - Soundtrack - 4:34 - Film version
  • 10/12/1998 - Thank U - single B-side - 3:02 - demo version
  • 11/03/1998 - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie - studio album - 3:05 - demo version
  • 11/18/1999 - MTV Unplugged - Live album - 4:37 - Liveact
  • 11/11/2005 - The Collection - compilation - 4:36 - studio version
  • 08/24/2012 - Live in Berlin - Live album - 5:58 - Liveact

Cover versions

  • The hard rock band Westworld covered Uninvited on their second studio album Skin from 2002 in a somewhat harder interpretation with influences from heavy metal . From the second half of the song, Bruno Ravel on bass guitar and Mark Reale on electric guitar and the song closes with a violin solo.
  • The German-British singing group Gregorian released a version in the form of a Gregorian chant on their album The Dark Side in 2004 .
  • The Finnish Gothic Metal band Silentium released a cover version on the B-side of their single Frostnight in 2005 .
  • In October 2007 the British DJ and producer duo Freemasons successfully remixed Uninvited to a dance music track with the vocals of Bailey Tzuke.
  • In 2015, the American singer and actress Lea Michele sang the song in her role as Rachel Berry in the US musical comedy television series Glee in the episode Loser Like Me (season 6, first episode).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Craig Rosen: City 'A Set-Up For New Alanis, Goo Goo Dolls Albums . In: Yahoo! Music . August 27, 1998. (English)
  2. ^ Richard Cairney: Cover Story. In: SEE Magazine. March 19, 1998, archived from the original on October 18, 2006 ; accessed on March 8, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Morissette’s Uninvited websites shut down, no tours on the book. In: MTV . March 20, 1998, accessed March 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Uninvited by Alanis Morissette . In: Allmusic . (English)
  5. ↑ Uninvited . In: Musicnotes .
  6. ^ The Winners of the 41st annual Grammy Awards. In: Billboard . March 6, 1999, accessed March 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ 1998 41st Grammy Awards. In: Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on May 19, 2006 ; accessed on March 28, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ Uninvited . In: Billboard - 1999: The Year in Music . January 3, 2000. page 15.