Bachelor No. 2 (Or, The Last Remains of the Dodo)

Bachelor No. 2 or, the Last Remains of the Dodo is the third studio album by the American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, released on May 2, 2000. Some songs were previously released on the soundtrack for the 1999 film Magnolia, which Mann wrote in the same period. She co-wrote "The Fall of the World's Own Optimist" with Elvis Costello. Mann took more control over the production than on her previous albums. Many of the songs were inspired by her frustration with her record label, Geffen Records. Mann's previous albums had not been successful, and Geffen refused to release Bachelor No. 2, feeling it contained no hit singles. In response, Mann set up her own label, SuperEgo, and released it herself. Bachelor No. 2 sold 270,000 copies, a large number for an independent artist. According to Metacritic, Bachelor No. 2 is the 28th best-reviewed album and the ninth best-reviewed indie or alternative album of the decade, and Slant Magazine named it the decade's 100th-best album. The success established Mann as a career artist who could work outside of the major label system. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)