 under rug swept is the fifth album and third internationally released album by canadian singer-songwriter alanis morissette. released by maverick records in the united states on february 26, 2002 and in the united kingdom a day earlier (see 2002 in music), it was the first album morissette had written and produced all on her own. it debuted at number one on charts in 12 countries, including the united states and canada, and produced the singles "hands clean" and "precious illusions". sales, however, did not match those of morissette's previous two studio albums. ==background and production== before recording of the album began, when she hadn't written songs or journal entries for nine months, morissette went to toronto not knowing whether she was going to write songs herself or with someone else. in the first week of her stay she had written seven songs alone, and she described the writing process as "really fast and accelerated". as on her previous albums, morissette took a stream-of-consciousness approach to the songwriting. she wrote the music and lyrics at the same time, spending around twenty minutes or less on each song, and recorded the vocals during the writing process, in one or two takes. "i really wanted to make sure that i wrote in the studio so that, while i was writing, i could be singing it at the same time", she said.stringer, jeffrey. "she's only human: an interview with alanis morissette". borders group. march 4, 2002. retrieved april 5, 2007. according to morissette, she had a "little space station" with a keyboard, an acoustic, an electric, her journal and a microphone set up, and everything was recorded onto dat.vineyard, jennifer. [http://www.mtv.com/bands/m
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