{{Infobox song | name = So Unsexy | cover = Under Rug Swept German album sampler.jpg | alt = | caption = German ''Under Rug Swept'' album sampler | type = promo | artist = Alanis Morissette | album = Under Rug Swept | released = November 2003 (Brazil) | recorded = 2001 | studio = Dog House Studios (Lafayette, CO)<ref name=allmusic>{{cite news|last1=Erlewine|first1=Stephen Thomas|title=Under Rug Swept – Alanis Morissette | Allmusic|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/under-rug-swept-mw0000015524|access-date=24 August 2014|publisher=AllMusic|date=8 February 2002}}</ref> | genre = | length = 5:08 | label = Maverick | writer = Alanis Morissette | producer = Alanis Morissette | prev_title = 21 Things I Want in a Lover | prev_year = 2003 | next_title = Everything | next_year = 2004 }}
"'''So Unsexy'''" is a song written by Alanis Morissette, and produced by her for her fifth album, ''Under Rug Swept'' (2002). It was released in Brazil as the seventh and final single in November 2003.
==Background and theme== According to Morissette, "So Unsexy" "basically speaks of the process of how loving myself can affect everything and change everything. Why when I don't take care of myself, or love myself or feel connected to my definition of God, everything's very painful and disjointed and disconnected and ... depressing, to be totally honest."<ref name=CNN>van der Kooy, Dan and Cook, Shanon. [http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/05/mroom.alanis.morissette/index.html "Alanis not about to be swept under the rug"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116180205/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/05/mroom.alanis.morissette/index.html |date=2007-11-16 }}. CNN. July 5, 2002. Retrieved April 5, 2002.</ref> Morissette said that when she wrote the song, she was trying to investigate "the underbelly of some of my insecurities and why little tiny things that are innocuous and inconsequential are translated in my own mind as to be taken so personally. And that has happened and still happens a lot, and while I think it's very human, it's exhausting. But as long as I have my own back, it's not as scary and it's not as horrifying."<ref name=MSO-cut>[http://www.msopr.com/mso/morissette-cutbycut.html "Alanis Morissette talks about songs from 'Under Rug Swept'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124210013/http://www.msopr.com/mso/morissette-cutbycut.html |date=2009-01-24 }}. MSO. Retrieved April 5, 2007.</ref>
==Release== ''Billboard'' wrote that "So Unsexy" "show[s] Morissette proudly wearing her affection for concise, pure-pop hooks".<ref name=Billboard-Jan2002>Flick, Larry. "Alanis Excels On Her Own". ''Billboard''. January 19, 2002, vol. 114, iss. 3, pg. 1.</ref> A separate review in the magazine of ''Under Rug Swept'' described it as "funky ... truly an every (wo)man's tale".<ref>"Album Reviews". ''Billboard''. March 2, 2002. Retrieved January 28, 2007.</ref> The ''LA Weekly'' said that it "pleases, spilling a guitar wash over the hip-hop beat of Biz Markie's 'Nobody Beats the Biz'".<ref>Lewis, Miles Marshall. [http://www.laweekly.com/music/music-reviews/cool-schmool/10621/ "Music Reviews"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201350/http://www.laweekly.com/music/music-reviews/cool-schmool/10621/ |date=2007-09-30 }}. ''LA Weekly''. March 13, 2002. Retrieved January 28, 2007.</ref> At the 2003 Juno Awards, "So Unsexy" and "Hands Clean", another song on ''Under Rug Swept'', won Morissette the "Jack Richardson Producer of the Year" award.<ref>[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/2002/2002junob.htm "2002 33rd Juno Awards"]. ''Los Angeles Times''. Retrieved January 28, 2007.</ref>
"So Unsexy" was considered for commercial release as the album's third single,<ref name=CNN/> but other songs were chosen as radio- and promo-only releases instead; the song was, however, promoted in Brazil. This is because the promotion for ''Under Rug Swept'' ended in North America and Europe in early 2003. {{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}
==Music video== The music video for the single, derived from the DVD release ''Feast on Scraps'', is a performance of the song at Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands on August 13, 2002, during Morissette's Toward Our Union Mended Tour.
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