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Alanis Morissette revisits her past, literally, in the video for her new single, "Eight Easy Steps." In the Liz Friedlander-directed clip, Morissette is digitally inserted into a host of pre-existing footage from throughout her career, including the video for her star-making single "You Oughta Know" and a teenage appearance in which she is "slimed" on the TV show "You Can't Do That on Television."

Wherever possible, Morissette's face in the previous clips has been morphed to show her singing the lyrics to "Eight Easy Steps." Says Friedlander, "The first step was to go through literally hundreds of hours of archival footage." From there, Morissette spent more than 16 hours recreating facial expressions for digital manipulation.