{"id":806755,"date":"2020-04-24T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=989472"},"modified":"2020-04-24T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:40:17","slug":"alanis-morissette-tackles-mental-illness-on-new-song-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/alanis-morissette-tackles-mental-illness-on-new-song-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Alanis Morissette Tackles Mental Illness on New Song \u2018Diagnosis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Alanis.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/alanis-morissette\/\">Alanis Morissette<\/a> has shared a new track from her upcoming album&nbsp;<em>Such Pretty Forks in the Road<\/em>, titled \u201cDiagnosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this simple piano ballad, Morissette tackles the challenges and stigma surrounding depression and other forms of mental illness. Co-written with Michael Farrell and produced by Alex Hope, the lyrics sound strangely prescient nowadays: \u201cI\u2019ve not\u2005left the house in a while\/I\u2019ve\u2005not felt a glimpse of ease\/And I have not made much headway\/Since I have come back from the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morissette previously released the songs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alanis-morissette-reasons-i-drink-video-959029\/\">\u201cReasons I Drink\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alanis-morissette-smiling-956280\/\">\u201cSmiling\u201d<\/a> from the album, which is out May 1st. The latter track was written for the Broadway musical&nbsp;<em>Jagged Little Pill<\/em>, inspired by Morissette\u2019s classic 1995 album of the same name, which debuted at New York\u2019s Broadhurst Theatre this past December.<\/p>\n<p>To promote&nbsp;<em>Such Pretty Forks in the Road<\/em>, as well as commemorate&nbsp;<em>Jagged Little Pill<\/em>\u2018s 25th anniversary, Morissette is scheduled to head out on a world tour this year, kicking off with her North American run from June 2nd through July 25th with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/liz-phair\">Liz Phair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/garbage\/\">Garbage<\/a>. The European leg of the tour will kick off September 23rd in Copenhagen. Tour dates are subject to change due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/alanis-morissette-diagnosis-989472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alanis Morissette has shared a new track from her upcoming album&nbsp;Such Pretty Forks in the Road, titled \u201cDiagnosis.\u201d In this simple piano ballad, Morissette tackles the challenges and stigma surrounding depression and other forms of mental illness. Co-written with Michael Farrell and produced by Alex Hope, the lyrics sound strangely prescient nowadays: \u201cI\u2019ve not\u2005left the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 02:37:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}