Tuesday 13 June 2023

Today Is...Jagged Little Pill Released

Alanis Morissette came into existence as an angry, feisty young lady who had been spurned in love and was going to make 13 angry song to make sure everyone knew about it and this is the result but then she must have got a boyfriend or something because after this brilliant album, she went all sappy and i stuck with her for a few more albums just in case he dumped her and she got all pissed off again but he must have been a keeper because she never which is some ways is obviously good for her, in other ways such as for her career, it sucked.
You Ought To Know is her at her ticked off best and serves as a reminder that if you ever find yourself sat behind her and her boyfriend at a theater, then you might want to change seats.
The song Ironic led to many discussions about whether rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid or good advice that you just didn't take is actually ironic at all but whether she was being ironic by singing a song called Ironic which wasn't ironic at all it obviously didn't bother people that much because the album spent 222 weeks in the UK Charts and sold enough copies to allow her to consider retiring without ever having to set foot in a recording studio again which on hearing her follow up albums was a career path she probably should have been followed.
My cassette tape of Jagged Little Pill got dragged into my cars cassette player not that long after i bought it so i borrowed a colleagues CD and burnt my own to prevent paying for the same songs twice, reasoning that i had already paid for them once so i wasn't depriving Alanis of her 75p or whatever percentage she gets from it and i haven't yet been chased down the street by an angry Alanis Morissette demanding her 75p so i guess she's cool with it but if she isn't, then Ironic means using language that normally signifies the opposite and for that piece of advice i will charge you 75p so so we are now all square. Ironic ain't it. 
Jagged Little Pill was a rip roaring 13 songs from an angry young lady with a magnificent set of lungs and electric guitars which happily coincided with the grunge theme of the time.
While you could almost hear the sound of bunnies boiling in her early songs, she evolved into a run-of-the-mill female singer seemingly having got all her vitriol out in that one album and then dialled it down with songs pondering the troubles and joys of maturity and domesticity but not anywhere near as exciting as Alanis at her angsty best.

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