Alanis Morissette mixes melancholia with mistletoe in first-ever holiday album
The Globe and Mail · Brad Wheeler ·
Good Weather for Immaculate Conception has carols, covers and two new original songs
On her debut holiday album of carols, covers and a pair of new originals, Alanis Morissette sings that all is calm and all is bright, and a “rum-pa-pum pum” to all. Tis the season, right?
Not for everybody. The weather outside is frightful, and sometimes things aren’t so great inside either. Which is why on the tastefully done and playfully titled LP Good Weather for Immaculate Conception Morissette mixes melancholia with mistletoe. For the less than festive, the societal expectation to be jolly during the holiday season is just more stress. Alanis feels you, literally.
“You don’t have to smile for us, nor have a joyous time,” she assures on To an Empath at Christmas Time, one of the album’s new original songs. “You don’t have to hold your breath until New Year’s time.”
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