In 2019, Morissette left Los Angeles with her husband and children for Northern California, where she moved in order to be closer to her best friends and redwood forests. She hasn't looked back since (via Vogue and The New York Times).
That's because moving was about more than just Morissette's love for skiing on Lake Tahoe. That's the story she tells intimately in "Losing The Plot." Beyond the song's universal questions, it also tells us the very personal journey of a middle-aged rock-pop star struggling in an industry that idolizes women ages 17 to 29 and gives older women really reductive views. As she told Vogue, after reaching middle age, Morissette became "super disenfranchised" with the city.
This feeling of not belonging no doubt contributed to the desperation that drove Morissette to compose the album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road: "Okay, if I stay in this place, I don't even mean Los Angeles, but if I stay in this headspace, I'm probably going to die of something." Both getting out of Los Angeles and composing music was Morissette's way to "move to the next phase."
Rolling Stone might criticize "Losing the Plot" as "ironically sleepy." Perhaps that's the point. Realizations don't need to be jarring to be powerful. Sometimes our most powerful emotions and most potent revelations come not with a bang, but with a whimper.
