Alanis Morissette has come to signify a particular kind of ageing Generation X female celebrity since her initial rise to fame almost three decades ago. This project traces her career and maturation in the glare of transnational media that often fail to accept evolutions in her music and identities as she ages. Exploring scholarship on intergenerational feminism, I seek to establish how Morissette is iconic of discourses that situate women within a specific generational context. Though she explores femininity and ageing in her creative works, media coverage of this musician often confines her to established social narratives that prescribe ideal life cycles of women. A tension between celebrity industry manufacturing of consistency and promotion of reinvention exists in even greater discordance with the representation and self-representation of ageing and self-development that celebrities undertake in their creative works and star images.
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