"A little too ironic..."
When I saw on Yahoo! News this morning that Alanis Morissette had become a U.S. citizen, I immediately thought to myself "self, wasn't Alanis griping about America in some form or another awhile back?" And now I can tell myself that, yes, indeed she was.
Behold (thanks, Drudge):
BBC - April 6th, 2004 Singer Alanis Morissette wore a "nude suit" on stage at Canada's equivalent of the Grammys to complain about censorship in the US.
Morissette, who was hosting the Juno Awards in Edmonton on Sunday, wore the cartoon-style bodysuit in protest at TV and radio censorship in the US.
"We can't show nipples on national TV," she said in relation to Janet Jackson's Super Bowl incident.
"I am proud to be able to stand here and do this," she told the audience.
"We live in a land where we still think the human body is beautiful and we're not afraid of the female breast," the singer said, after stepping out of a dressing gown to reveal her "nudity".
...
"They're in an era when they're scared, when there's lots of fear," she said.
Less than a year later, and she's voluntarily taking up citizenship in the Land of Fear.
You know, All I Really Want is for celebrities like Morissette to live up to their symbolic threats from time to time. But I know they're not Perfect and that it's inevitable that their emotions will get the better of them from time to time. However, someone should tell Alanis "You Oughta Know better. You need to Wake Up and realize that we can see Right Through You. Only then can you be Forgiven. Uh, also, Not the Doctor. Ooo, and Head Over Feet, too."
When someone of less affluence is told that "if you don't like it here, you should leave," they rightly point out that it's just not viable to do so. It's expensive and difficult, and generally a last resort.
However, this ideological escape hatch doesn't exist for the Alec Baldwins and Alanis Morissettes of the world, yet most of them stick around. Their feet are telling a different story than their mouths, which is surprising given how close in proximity the two usually are among Hollywood elites.
» February 17th, 2005
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