Alanis Morissette enjoyed covering The Black Eyed Peas’ hit song My Humps - because creating the parody provided respite from her own over-emotional songwriting process.

The Ironic hitmaker caused an Internet sensation with her 2007 down-tempo version of the track and its accompanying music video, which garnered over a million views in the week after its April 2nd launch on YouTube.

And the Canadian singer insists the creation of her moody rendition was a therapeutic experience.

She says, “I was in the studio with (producer) Guy Sigsworth and he would say, ‘What horse from the apocalypse are you bringing in today, Alanis?’ Because every song was this tsunami of emotions. So I said, ‘I wish I could just write a really simple song - a song like My Humps.’ Then we had a pregnant pause, looked at each other, and said, ‘All right, let’s do it!’ Within moments we were recording the piano version of it, and within a week we were shooting the video in my garage here at my house.”

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Alanis Morissette has a secret boyfriend who’s helping her get over her split from Ryan Reynolds and his engagement to Scarlett Johansson.

The singer was left heartbroken when she split from Reynolds in 2006, and he began dating Johansson just months later.

Following the announcement last month of her ex’s engagement; Morissette insists she is happy for the couple, claiming “On a certain spiritual level, I feel like everyone’s where they need to be.”

And she now confesses she didn’t completely quit men. Morissette admits, “I’m actually dating somebody. My moratorium was on commitment, not dating. I was a full-blown love addict and a co-dependent for a long time. So I took a break, and it’s been a committed passive recover for me. But there have been huge payoffs already.”

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Alanis Morissette says she’s naturally optimistic – but battled hard times over the last few years when she hit “rock bottom.”

“I took a break over the past two and half years. I was tending to my personal life,” says the singer, who called off her engagement to longtime boyfriend Ryan Reynolds in 2007.

During that time, she says she hit “rock bottom” due to “a personal unraveling of significant relationships in my life.” (Morissette did not comment about Reynolds’s recent engagement to Scarlett Johansson.)

But the singer, 33, worked through the low period by writing songs for her upcoming album, Flavors of Entanglement, due June 10, and discovering more outlets for her emotions. She says that “everything from pounding pillows to sharing with intimate friends,” helped her through the hard time. “The record chronicles the rock bottom finally being hit.”

Still, she’s hopeful about true love she says. “Oh yeah. My nature is always hope filled. It’s more about values matching now. That’s the foundation.” Though she admits she is, “dating someone,” she says she’d rather not reveal who it is – yet.

What the singer will reveal is that she’s planning to tour North America this fall – but first she wants to catch one of the summer’s most anticipated movies: Sex and the City. “I will definitely be going to see that movie,” enthused Morissette, who once had a guest role on the HBO series. “I’m the girl that would torture a few of my guy friends and bring them.”

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Only hours after the news broke that Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johansson had gotten engaged, the Van Wilder star’s former fiancée Alanis Morissette was spotted on a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles, where eyewitnesses tell OK! the Canadian singer appeared unfazed by the announcement.

“Alanis seemed fine,” one of the pop star’s fellow passengers tells OK!, adding that she “looked beautiful.”

And, judging by the copy of OK! Magazine Alanis was intently reading during the flight, the best way to keep her mind off of her now-engaged ex-beau was to catch up on all the latest in celebrity news in the pages of OK!

Ryan and Alanis had been engaged for almost three years before finally announcing the end of their marriage plans in February of 2007. He began seeing Scarlett shortly after the split.

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Some of these pictures are really beautiful!  She definitely looks much better with longer hair.  Dontcha think?