NASHVILLE |FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/MARCEE RONDAN/LATHUM NELSON
ALANIS MORISSETTE TO LAUNCH
ÔUNDER RUG SWEPT’
VIA TELEVISION PERFORMANCES AND MSN WEBCAST;
“HANDS CLEAN” SINGLE
RECEIVES AIRPLAY ON SIX FORMATS;
HANDS CLEAN AUDIO AND VIDEO STREAM GENERATE 1,000,000 STREAMS AT AOL MUSIC
ALANIS MORISSETTE will launch under rug swept, due February 26 on Maverick, by performing the album’s first hit single “Hands Clean” on a series of high-profile television appearances. The singer, songwriter and musician will appear on the “Today Show” (February 21 from Salt Lake City, Utah), “Late Show With David Letterman” (February 25), “Rosie O’Donnell Show” (February 26), “Charlie Rose Show” (airdate TBA), “The View” (airdate TBA), “Last Call With Carson Daly” (February 26) and the new Bravo series “Musicians” (February 25).
In its initial weeks at radio, “Hands Clean” has garnered airplay (with an estimated 27.6 million listeners) on Top 40 Mainstream, Adult Top 40, Modern Rock, AAA, Modern Adult and Hot AC–where the single set the all-time record for most Hot AC adds in a single week. The song examines a past relationship and how its effects linger. Employing a haunting lyrical approach, the verses are written from the presumed viewpoint of the person whom the song is about, while the chorus and bridge represent her own feelings.
ALANIS recently previewed material from the self-written and produced under rug swept when she performed her first-ever show at the Whisky in Los Angeles–to a crowd that included Russell Crowe, Matthew Perry, Ashton Kutcher, Sophie B. Hawkins and Sheila E–for a webcast that will kick off MSN Music’s All Access concert series February 18. Meanwhile, ALANIS–who is AOL’s “Artist of the Month” for February–has received more than one million total streams to date for her “Hands Clean” audio and Francis Lawrence-directed video on AOL Music. In the first week alone, the audio of the song received over 525,000 streams.
In a review of “Hands Clean,” Larry Flick of Billboard said: “Alanis Morissette ushers in the imminent Under Rug Swept with a track that comfortably lands somewhere between the singles from 1995’s edgy Jagged Little Pill and 1998’s darkly poetic Supposed Former Infatuation JunkieÉThe result is a hit-bound single with palpable confidence and vibrance, in which she performs with equal parts aggressive intensity and playful sensuality…Morissette has mastered the art of wrapping rich plot and interesting language within a taut melody and a concise chorus that sticks to the brain upon impact.”
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