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"An Emotion Away" is a pop-dance song co-written by Alanis Morissette, Leslie Howe and Serge Côté, and produced by Howe for Morissette's second album Now Is the Time (1992). Its protagonist tells someone who "completely took heart by surprise" that "love is just an emotion away". It was released as the album's first single in 1992 (see 1992 in music) and reached number twenty-four on the Canadian singles chart. "An Emotion Away" was the most successful single from Now Is the Time, which sold moderately. Leslie Howe engineered and mixed the song. The B-side on the cassette single was "When We Meet Again", another track from Now Is the Time.

The song, along with "Too Hot" and "Feel Your Love" (from Morissette's 1991 debut album Alanis), was used on the soundtrack of the 1993 film Just One of the Girls, in which Morissette appeared.

Music video

A music video was produced to promote the single, and was filmed in Rome, Italy. Canadian actor Evan Sabba appeared in it. The video begins with Alanis watching a black-and-white 1940s mock noir crime film, with Alanis portraying a character herself in it. Alanis then flicks the channel, and appears on the television - ecstatic, dancing dressed in a suit and hat, jumping and dancing around, and singing the song. Several times in the video, we see the Alanis 'outside' readjusting her position on the seat, or providing amused facial expressions. A 'commercial' is also embedded into the television, advertising a perfume - also featuring Alanis.

Notes

"Alanis Morissette - Biography" . The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 21, 2006.

References

"Alanis Morissette Discography - An Emotion Away" (Archived 2009-10-25). GeoCities: alanisdisco. Retrieved August 21, 2006.
"Early Releases". Vip portal. Retrieved August 21, 2006.
RPM searchable database.
Unknown (1992). In Now Is the Time . Canada: MCA Records.

v t e Alanis Morissette
Awards and nominations Discography Songs
Studio albums	Alanis Now Is the Time Jagged Little Pill Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie Under Rug Swept So-Called Chaos Flavors of Entanglement Havoc and Bright Lights Such Pretty Forks in the Road The Storm Before the Calm
Compilation albums	Feast on Scraps iTunes Originals The Collection
Other releases	Space Cakes The Singles Box
Live releases	Jagged Little Pill, Live MTV Unplugged Live in the Navajo Nation Feast on Scraps Jagged Little Pill Acoustic Live at Montreux 2012
Concert tours	Junkie Tour 5 ½ Weeks Tour One Tour Au Naturale Tour The Diamond Wink Tour Flavors of Entanglement Tour Guardian Angel Tour Intimate and Acoustic
Musicals	Jagged Little Pill
Related articles	Wade Morissette (brother) Jagged (documentary film)

v t e Alanis Morissette songs
Discography
Alanis	"Feel Your Love" "Too Hot" "Walk Away"
Now Is the Time	"An Emotion Away" "No Apologies"
Jagged Little Pill	"All I Really Want" "You Oughta Know" "Hand in My Pocket" "You Learn" "Head over Feet" "Ironic"
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie	"Thank U" "That I Would Be Good" "Unsent" "So Pure" "Joining You"
MTV Unplugged	"King of Pain"
Under Rug Swept	"21 Things I Want in a Lover" "Hands Clean" "Flinch" "So Unsexy" "Precious Illusions" "Surrendering" "Utopia"
So-Called Chaos	"Eight Easy Steps" "Out Is Through" "Everything"
The Collection	"Crazy"
Flavors of Entanglement	"Underneath" "Not as We" "In Praise of the Vulnerable Man"
Havoc and Bright Lights	"Guardian" "Lens" "Receive"
Such Pretty Forks in the Road	"Reasons I Drink" "Smiling"
Soundtrack songs	"Still" "Uninvited" "Wunderkind"
Other songs	"My Humps"

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