Misogyny in the music industry

Morissette says she repeatedly pressed her new business managers for financial information because her intuition told her something was wrong.

“into the new business manager's office over and over and saying, I need more information because something's up and I don't know what”

Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 19:15

Morissette says radio stations of the era declined her songs on the grounds that they were already playing another woman artist.

“if we called a radio station to see if they would play one of my songs, they would say, we can't play it. We're playing Sinead”

Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 14:55

Morissette characterizes the executives she dealt with as lacking empathy and hating the feminine, not only women.

“there was no attunement or empathy, a lot of personality disorders, a lot of misogyny, a lot of just hate of the feminine, not just women”

Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 13:49

Morissette recalls being overwhelmed by rooms of a dozen men in suits and not understanding the contracts she signed at fourteen.

“Just a room full of, you know, 12 men in suits. And I just remember being really overwhelmed. Like, I didn't even know what the word publishing meant”

Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 9:17

Cooper argues that adults present in those rooms should have recognized the power imbalance and protected young women.

“And at some point, you also wish that there were adults in those rooms who would recognize the obvious power imbalance and help the young woman understand that that is not a compliment”

Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 17:56