| "Eight Easy Steps" | ||||
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| Single by Alanis Morissette | ||||
| from the album So-Called Chaos | ||||
| Released | October 19, 2004 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 2:52 | |||
| Label | Maverick | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alanis Morissette | |||
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| "Eight Easy Steps" on YouTube | ||||
"Eight Easy Steps" is a rock song written by Alanis Morissette for her sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos. The album's opening track, it was released in 2004 as the So-Called Chaos's third (and final) single. The song may be seen as discussing self-help, with the message that it is the "course of a lifetime",[1] but the help that is actually "offered" in the song is tongue-in-cheek, with lines like "How to lie to yourself and thereby to everyone else" and "How to control someone to be a carbon copy of you."
The song reached number nine on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play and number 27 on the Adult Top 40.[2]
- ^ Vineyard, Jennifer. "Alanis Says She's Still Grappling With Self-Image Issues". MTV News. June 30, 2004. Retrieved June 1, 2007.
- ^ "So-Called Chaos > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved June 1, 2007.