Uninvited

This was the first song Alanis released since her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which sold over 16 million copies. The wait created a lot of anticipation for this song, which was leaked to radio stations a few weeks before it was officially released.

This was featured in the 1998 movie City Of Angels, starring Nicolas Cage as an angel who falls in love with a mortal woman, played by Meg Ryan. Morissette saw a rough cut of the film and went back to the studio and wrote the haunting, piano-driven ballad, which she calls a "fear of love song." In a featurette about the making of the film, she explains: "I was going through certain thing of my own at the time and it just sort of coincided at the same time that I could write it about myself and it could be something that Meg's character could be communicating throughout." She continues: "I believe in your intuition or your gut is the voice some might call angels and I just believe in that. There's all kinds of different terms and gods that we can use for it. But I believe in 'It.' You don't really know how amazing things are unless you have the contrast of things not having been amazing for a certain amount of time, and I happen to like that theory."

As a teenager, Morissette released two albums in her native Canada before teaming up with producer Glen Ballard for her global debut, Jagged Little Pill. "Uninvited," released in February 1998 and included on the City Of Angels soundtrack, held fans over until her next album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was issued in November. She teamed with Ballard on that one as well, but "Uninvited" she co-produced with Rob Cavallo, who was Green Day's producer.