Alanis Morissette 2007
 Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004 dressed in a bathrobe, which she took off to reveal a flesh-coloured bodysuit, a response to the era of censorship in the U.S. caused by Janet Jackson's breast-reveal incident during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show. Morissette released her sixth studio album, So-Called Chaos, in May 2004. She wrote the songs on her own again, and co-produced the album with Tim Thorney and pop music producer John Shanks. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally mixed critical reviews, and it became Morissette's lowest seller in the U.S. The lead single, Everything, achieved major success on adult top 40 radio in America and was moderately popular elsewhere, particularly in Canada, although it failed to reach the top forty on the U.S. Hot 100. Because the first line of the song includes the word asshole, American radio stations refused to play it, and the single version was changed to include the word nightmare instead. Two other singles, Out Is Through and Eight Easy Steps, fared considerably worse commercially than Everything, although a dance mix of Eight Easy Steps was a U.S. club hit.
By mid 2004, Morissette had become an ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, a religious organization that offers anyone semi-immediate ordination as a minister free of charge. In June, Morissette announced her engagement to actor, and fellow Canadian, Ryan Reynolds. During that time, she gave an interview to British newspaper The Mirror in which she discussed her past homosexual relationships, having dated a twenty-nine year-old man at age fourteen and, briefly, her experiences with drugs. In the article, she was quoted as saying: My addictions were work and food. I smoked pot once in a while, but I'm too much of a control freak to be a drug person. She expanded her acting credentials with the July release of the Cole Porter biographical film De-Lovely, in which she performed the song Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) and had a brief role as an anonymous stage performer. Morissette embarked on a U.S. summer tour with long-time friends and fellow Canadians, the Barenaked Ladies, working with the non-profit environmental organization Reverb.[
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