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Alanis Morissette returns in fine form with her warbly, abnormal vocal as an angel in her just-released new video for bright guitar-pop jam, "Guardian," the lead single from 38-year-old Canadian superstar' upcoming album, "Havoc and Bright Lights," her first album in four years, which deals with themes of motherhood, politics, spirituality, philosophy, and due August 28. The clip is prove that she's growth as both a musician and a mother.
Commending its freshness and brightness, the pop rock song itself, aside from a riff-worthy chorus, is a bit more downtempo than fans of her earliest work have come to love. It's a bright guitar-pop jam that shines with instant Morissette familiarity while still managing to sound fresh, and sticks to the loud-quiet-loud alt-rock dynamic, keeping up that trend, and happily also feeling like old-school Morissette. Her warble still has the power to peel shingles off rooftops. Nonetheless, all it takes is one earful of her voice to remember what drew you onto Morissette's team way back when.
The clip was filmed in Berlin and continues the heavenly theme of her 'City of Angels' soundtrack contribution "Uninvited," featuring Morissette as guardian angel to the black-and-white city of Berlin, complete with big, feathery wings. "Guardian" carries on with the long-standing music video tradition of pop stars as emotive savior to the masses, though it's a bit unclear just how much of a "guardian" Morissette really is. According to Morissette, she sees the otherworldly spirit-role as linked to that of hers as a mother.
The clip introduces Morissette writing 'I'll be your keeper for life,' and then shows her as a guardian with wings overlooking the city, beneath her off a building. She begins singing the song, and we are provided with glimpses of the lives of the citizens in a city; a couple arguing with their teenage daughter caught in the middle; a young boy being bullied; and another couple situated with their child. During the chorus, Morissette is seen playing the guitar in a white-colored abstract room, along with her new band members, proclaiming she is 'your guardian.' The video concludes with all of the featured citizens looking above, realizing they have a 'guardian.'

Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette premiered the video on Yahoo! Music, to her new remixed single "Not As We Are," the second single from her seventh studio album "Flavors of Entanglement," an album like any of her previous ones that channels her emotional states. "As soon as I start to write there's this uncensored, unedited freedom to step outside out of the shackles of the thoughts in my head around being ashamed," the Canadian singer has won 12 Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, said. "If I could offer anything to anyone listening to my songs it would be just a four minute moment of dropping any shame of anyone being human."
The ballad "Not as We," is a song about learning how to relive your life without someone else in it. Someone who was a big part of your life and now you don't know how you're going to get by without them, so you have to "psuedo-making it" and basically just taking it one day at a time. Morissette explores the often cyclical nature of learning in track in this pensive, rock bottom-capturing "Not As We." The Canadian singer takes steps towards a new life as herself in the new music video, directed by James Whitaker and produced through RSA's promo division Black Dog Films, was shot in Los Angeles on September of 2008. Simple in its concept, the video features Morissette in various stages on the path to emotional recovery.
A dozen years after the breakthrough debut of the rock-influenced "Jagged Little Pill," an album which earned four Grammys and spawned a dedicated worldwide fan base, Morissette remains not only an enduringly popular artist, but one whose success stems from a fierce commitment to authenticity and, to an equal extent, vulnerability. Both of these traits enable her to climb to new ground with her latest album, "Flavors of Entanglement." The Album Version is a piano driven ballad while the shorter Radio Edit adds guitars, bass and background effects and starts with the first line of the song while the Album Version has an instrumental opening. The music video uses the Radio Edit. The studio version first appeared on Fox's TV series "House" and later made a return to primetime on MTV's "The Hills."