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''So-Called Chaos'' is the sixth studio album (fourth released internationally) by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released in May 2004. - Wikipedia

When Alanis Morissette sings "I want to be big and let go of this grudge that's grown old" on So-Called Chaos, you know she hasn't taken a Jagged Little Pill recently. No longer the queen of pain, the Canadian songstress writes her sixth studio album from deep in love, specifically with Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds (National Lampoon's Van Wilder). She coos that he's the "Knees of My Bees" and exults that "There's not anything to which you can't relate/ And you're still here." This is more about bliss than chaos, which does take a bit of the edge off Morissette's lyrical excursions into her psycho-emotional condition. But a bit of sweetness and light serves her well; we can only imagine the shape she'd be in if she was still obsessing over the spurned relationship of "You Oughta Know" -(which she seems to finally dismiss in So-Called Chaos's "This Grudge" and "Doth I Protest Too Much.")  And despite crowing over her romantic life, Morissette takes herself down a peg or two, spiritedly poking at her own foibles in "Eight Easy Steps," "Out is Through," "Spineless" and the title track ("I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be"). The happiness contributes to her confident musical pose, too; the album isheavy with swirling, Eastern-flavored ragas on "Eight Easy Steps," "Excuses," "Knees of My Bees" and "Spineless," and gentle, chiming melodicism on "This Grudge" and "Doth I Protest Too Much." Some may miss the biting angst of its predecessors, but So-Called Chaos provides the change of pace Morissette's music was calling for.