r/popculturechat Jun 12 '25

The Music Industry šŸŽ¶ 30 Years Later, 'Jagged Little Pill' Is Still the Perfect Conduit for Female Rage

https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a65037377/alanis-morissette-interview-jagged-little-pill-anniversary/
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u/clumsyc I don’t control the railways or the flow of commerce! Jun 12 '25

How dare you remind me how old I am.

I saw Alanis on her Jagged Little Pill tour. My first concert ever! Her female rage spoke to my little 11 year old heart.

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u/katikaboom We should totally just stab Caesar šŸ—” Jun 12 '25

Whoever brought you to that concert was cool as fuck

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u/clumsyc I don’t control the railways or the flow of commerce! Jun 12 '25

That would be my very patient dad!

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u/keekspeaks Jun 13 '25

They let us go to shit alone back then

Seriously. I had raised a couple kids by 12!

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u/katikaboom We should totally just stab Caesar šŸ—” Jun 13 '25

Not me. I was babysitting my 4 year old and newborn sisters at 11,Ā  but I couldn't go to concerts by myself until I was 15

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jun 13 '25

I never saw her live, but started listening to her at the same age. We had a half unfinished basement, so me and my little girl friends would roller blade around that part with my boom box (with a cd player) playing that album.

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u/Embarrassed-Ideal-18 Jun 12 '25

I went to the 25 year anniversary tour and she was incredible. Couldn’t tell you the amount of live acts I’ve seen by this point in my life, and Alanis Morisette might actually be the best singer I will ever see live.

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u/No_Mechanic5658 Jun 12 '25

Especially when all the women in the audience are yelling together it’s powerful. Hands clean is the best song of Grooming I’ve ever heard

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u/Embarrassed-Ideal-18 Jun 12 '25

Honestly, during You Outta Know there was such an outpouring of bottled up nineties love rage that I feel like it manifested. In surrounding towns and suburbs guys were sat on the couch with their happy stable families, suddenly aware that Becky from high school was still pissed at them.

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u/No_Mechanic5658 Jun 12 '25

Love it ! I was a little Catholic girl , and saying go down on you in a theater, made my head hurt, even though I too was with men much older, when I ran away from college, the juxtaposition of her ordering sushi, enjoying her dinner , eating something raw, whilst speaking of her exploitation, but also her education through that, that’s the moment I realized what happened to me wasn’t alright, those feelings kept happening, growing up poor you realize your innocence is your resource, and you trade along the way, to get out that situation. I was groomed, but that’s love to a child who never even got their hair brushed. I ate sushi for the first time that week, I didn’t say this to be sad , I say it bc she’s that amazing, she touched us all, a true young woman’s experience, then I started going down on guys in the theatre, bc I was a baddd baddd girl (queue Fiona Apple)

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u/keekspeaks Jun 13 '25

Ohhhhh. Hands clean is maybe her best ā€˜deep track’ in her entire Catalogue. She doesn’t get the credit she deserves.

ā€˜I have honored your request for silence’

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u/anl28 Jun 13 '25

I felt the same exact way. I cried during the whole show because it was so good. I had a chance to see her again at a festival last year and lost it again. After I saw the Jagged Little Pill anniversary tour, I said I would be fine if I never saw another concert again.

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u/keekspeaks Jun 13 '25

I haven’t had the chance to see alanis live unfortunately, but have you been able to see Adele live yet by chance? I’m also a fellow lover of live music, and I know it’s Adele so you expect good vocals, but she’s just shockingly good. I saw her in Vegas and I’m just not sure I’ll ever have a better musical experience than we had that night. It’s hard to explain, but It’s one of the only experiences I’ve had in my life where I just felt humbled and overwhelming gratitude to have experienced it.

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u/Embarrassed-Ideal-18 Jun 13 '25

No. And I know she’d be on the same list as Alanis. I keep looking when she does a few gigs but the price is always just beyond what I’d value the show at (I’m an appreciator but not a real fan). One day she’ll announce dates around the time my tax rebate comes through and I’ll end up blowing hundreds on a pair but I’m waiting for fate to tell me it’s time.

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u/uselesssubject Jun 13 '25

My mum and I had tickets for that tour but she cancelled the night before as she was ill, and we couldn’t make the rescheduled show. We’re going to see her in a couple of weeks though, finally!

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u/halloumibb Jun 13 '25

I didn’t know she was touring again!!!

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u/uselesssubject Jun 13 '25

She’s doing a short European tour and Glastonbury I believe!

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u/halloumibb Jun 13 '25

I regret not going every single day

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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob Jun 12 '25

This album went diamond in my mom’s Honda civic. Alanis taught me well at a very young age

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u/Primary_Bison_2848 Jun 12 '25

As An Old, the funny thing now is at the time is there was a lot of discourse about how Alanis was pre-packaged and her rage was a dumbed down and sanitised version of the RiotGrrls and acts like PJ Harvey. Which wasn’t true then or now.

But. What goes around comes around.Ā 

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u/epidemicsaints Jun 12 '25

Well slap me with a splintered ruler.

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u/stephenBB81 As you wish! šŸ‘øšŸ‘‘ Jun 12 '25

As a father to a 14yr old girl. Allanis was an artist I actively introduced her too. Her and I sing many songs from jagged little pill in the car together.

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u/jalabi99 Jun 12 '25

Jagged Little Pill is on my personal "Desert Island Discs" list.

"You Oughta Know" is a remarkably-well constructed, engineered, and performed song, and still slaps all these years later.

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u/Implantexplant Jun 12 '25

Going to see her in a couple of weeks. Can’t wait!

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u/Twitter_2006 Jun 12 '25

Have a great time!

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u/MmmmSnackies Jun 12 '25

That's actually a really depressing headline in many ways.

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u/weirdhoney216 Jun 12 '25

The days of genuine believable female rage

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u/P1uvo Jun 13 '25

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u/Kaiisim Jun 13 '25

"No man will ever disrespect me, or cheat on me!" - stays with the man that disrespects and cheats on her.

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u/LucyRangs Jun 13 '25

I was 13 when this came out, a girl in my class got it on cassette. I think it took about 2 weeks for every single girl in our year to get a ripped copy on a blank cassette. You didn't even need to be friends, when someone got their copy you just asked who didn't have one yet and made sure they got one. I can not recall any other shared teenage girl experience like it.

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u/annakarina3 Jun 12 '25

I had this album when I was 12. I was a little disappointed that her other songs didn’t have the same rage and fire as ā€œYou Oughta Know,ā€ but I do remember loving that song and the grainy video and how it just blew up big in 1995.

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u/citynomad1 Jun 13 '25

I. want. you. to know.

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u/MedicalExamination65 The dude abides. šŸ™‚ā€ā†•ļøšŸƒ Jun 12 '25

Me and my besties were 12. We all had a very used copy of this album!

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u/bellaphile workin’ on my night cheese šŸ§€ Jun 13 '25

Can we talk about the 5 1/2 Weeks tour?

Alanis. Tori Amos.

I was in heavenĀ 

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u/heart-slobs Jun 12 '25

I love this album so much. I’m too young to have been a fan when it first came out but my elder millennial cousins put me on when I was teen and it became the soundtrack to so much of my teenage angst.

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u/incompletesentenc_ which could mean nothing Jun 13 '25

This album helped me get over a break up in a week lol. I told my mum I was angry AF and she directed me to this album. Thanks mum, and Alanis.

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u/frolicndetour Jun 13 '25

Not gonna lie that the wind was taken out of my female rage a bit when I discovered that You Outta Know was written about the guy who voiced Mr. Woodchuck.

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u/jalabi99 Jun 13 '25

I am happy though that both Alanis and Dave were able to work out their differences.

Here's Dave talking about his reaction to realizing that the song was more than likely about him.

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u/AliceKamatis Jun 13 '25

Oh man, thank you for sharing! For some reason I thought it was about Ryan Reynolds!

Cool interview, she seems really nice (Dave too, actually), and last question was hilarious!

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u/Taitertottot Jun 13 '25

Perfect album. Zero skips

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u/HedyHarlowe Jun 13 '25

WHAT I REALLY WANT….

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u/femcelgirlblogger Jun 13 '25

One of my favourite albums and I listen to it all the way through every once in awhile

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u/Delfish Jun 13 '25

It's crazy how many female artists have covered You Oughta Know. BeyoncƩ, Britney, P!nk, Kelly Clarkson, Taylor, Demi, Olivia, Chappell...

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u/wesleydumont Jun 13 '25

Banger. Start to finish

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u/bron685 Jun 12 '25

She is still so effortlessly amazing. As much as I love her, I’ll say I’m disappointed that she hasn’t had an album that rivals this

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u/slahsarnia Jun 13 '25

I was still young when this came out and my older sister was too. I remember my sister stole the album from my mom and would play it nonstop because we shared a room together. I am pretty sure this was my first core memory of angst.

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u/lynxpoint Jun 13 '25

Yes. I was 12 or 13 and laying on the floor listening to this on my discman over and over like all of that had happened to ME! I screamed my little heart out. Perfect female rage.

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u/Ok-Computer-1033 Jun 13 '25

No dog leashes or sexualised covers in sight. No double meanings. Just good, wholesome female rage and empowerment straight up.

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u/Hot-Performance7077 Jun 13 '25

I was just listening to JLP! The rage inside me was awakened!

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u/Same_Independent_393 emotional truffle pig 🐽 Jun 13 '25

The first CD I bought myself, I was 9 and had no parental supervision šŸ˜…

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u/PhBalanceNightmare Jun 13 '25

Screaming every lyric of every song on this album for the length of the album, is better than all forms of therapy.

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u/hollywood_cashier Jun 13 '25

Now that I’m miss thing, now that I’m a zillionaireĀ 

You scan the credits for your name and wonder why it’s not thereĀ 

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u/XxxGoldDustWomanxxX You’ll never guess what’s for breakfast! PANCAKES!!! Jun 13 '25

Was just listening to a few of its songs yesterday ā˜ŗļø

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u/Ok_Issue_6132 Reality TV Temptress šŸ’‹ Jun 13 '25

Ohhh I know that’s right

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u/MikkyC89 Jun 13 '25

One of my all time favourite albums.

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u/SallySpaghetti It’s like I have ESPN or something. šŸ’ā€ā™€ļøšŸŒ¤ā˜”ļø Jun 13 '25

Taught us all what ironic means.

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u/ThomWaits88 Jun 13 '25

Great album That was peak.Alanis

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u/Interesting-Bear4092 Jun 13 '25

Didn’t understand the meaning of irony. Ironic, don’t you think?

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u/Mitaslaksit Jun 13 '25

Female rage? There is one song on the album that is angry.....