| "So Unsexy" | ||||
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 GermanUnder Rug Swept album sampler | ||||
| Promotional single byAlanis Morissette | ||||
| from the albumUnder Rug Swept | ||||
| Released | November 2003 (Brazil) | |||
| Recorded | 2001 | |||
| Length | 5:08 | |||
| Label | Maverick | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alanis Morissette | |||
| Producer(s) | Alanis Morissette | |||
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"So Unsexy" is a song written byAlanis Morissette, and produced by her for her fifth album,Under Rug Swept (2002). It was released in Brazil as the seventh and final single in November 2003.
According to Morissette, "So Unsexy" "basically speaks of the process of how loving myself can affect everything and change everything. Why when I don't take care of myself, or love myself or feel connected to my definition of God, everything's very painful and disjointed and disconnected and ... depressing, to be totally honest."[1] Morissette said that when she wrote the song, she was trying to investigate "the underbelly of some of my insecurities and why little tiny things that are innocuous and inconsequential are translated in my own mind as to be taken so personally. And that has happened and still happens a lot, and while I think it's very human, it's exhausting. But as long as I have my own back, it's not as scary and it's not as horrifying."[2]
Billboard wrote that "So Unsexy" "show[s] Morissette proudly wearing her affection for concise, pure-pophooks".[3] A separate review in the magazine ofUnder Rug Swept described it as "funky ... truly an every (wo)man's tale".[4] TheLA Weekly said that it "pleases, spilling a guitar wash over thehip-hop beat ofBiz Markie's 'Nobody Beats the Biz'".[5] At the2003 Juno Awards, "So Unsexy" and "Hands Clean", another song onUnder Rug Swept, won Morissette the "Jack Richardson Producer of the Year" award.[6]
"So Unsexy" was considered for commercial release as the album's thirdsingle,[1] but other songs were chosen as radio- and promo-only releases instead; the song was, however, promoted inBrazil. This is because the promotion forUnder Rug Swept ended in North America and Europe in early 2003.[citation needed]
Themusic video for the single, derived from the DVD releaseFeast on Scraps, is a performance of the song atAhoy inRotterdam,Netherlands on August 13, 2002, during Morissette's Toward Our Union Mended Tour.
