I’m now 36, and it hits differently, but goddamn it’s so good!” and “ Perfect still speaks to me so strongly, I use it as a guideline when talking to my own children”, testify to its enduring impact. And, judging by all the recent comments on her YouTube channel from people who have been listening to her literally since they were children, the songs resonate as much as ever.Ĭomments such as: “I was 11 when this album came out. Perhaps best-known for the immortal lyric, “Would she go down on you in the theatre?” (from the break-up anthem You Oughta Know), the original album addresses the perennial themes of unrequited love, growing up, ageism, sexism, perfectionism and loneliness head on.
Its latest iteration is the Tony award-winning Jagged Little Pill: The Musical. Twenty-five years later it’s still one of the Top 20 best-selling albums of all time, and has been re-released twice – as an acoustic re-recording on its 10th anniversary, and in 2015 as a 20th anniversary deluxe collector’s edition. How on earth am I not one of the 33 million people that bought Alanis Morissette’s confessional album Jagged Little Pill when it came out in 1995? Nominated for nine Grammys and winning four, including Album of the Year, it skyrocketed the seven-time Grammy winner to what she later said was PTSD-inducing fame at the age of 21, when fans regularly broke into her hotel room to leave notes.
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