It would hurtle through us really quickly, says Morissette.
At night, when we finished, wed just be chest-bumping.
For Morissette, the sessions were essentially broken up into two halves.
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Wed written maybe five songs.
The songs before then were written with Glen throwing lyrics out.
But after Ironic it became me telling stories.
I think Glen, to his credit, was like You got this.
Once we started getting into the hyper-autobiographical, it just became that way.
It was March 8, 1994, explains Ballard.
She was smiling, kind of mystical, and just completely alive.
I felt this really alive presence with her.
I didnt really know what she had done, and she didnt really want to play me anything.
So we just had a good conversation.
I was much older, but she felt like a younger sister to me.
So we wrote a song.
And I said, Lets write a song about the metaphorical bottom line and the real Bottom Line.
I immediately could see she was conceptual in the way she approached it.
I made the track right there with her.
We demoed it, and by 10 oclock that night she sang it and she went home.
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