Alanis Morissette: The Collection
When Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill first came out, I was 16 years old, but I sewar to you, I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the angst ridden collection of anthems every girl in our school swore “spoke” to her. And, since I hung out with just about every angst ridden girl in our high-school, I too, by association, connected with Alanis.
Then, she turned around, grew up and got nice. Too nice! When she started thanking India, I turned elsewhere for my musical inspiration. By the time she finally got back to being somewhat perturbed, it was too late. I’d moved on!
Now, ten years later, sporting a slightly more fem haircut and a jumbo sized rock from fiancée Ryan Reynolds (all the more reason for me to hate her, the bitch), Alanis offers up The Collection, her greatest hits (and yes, actually, most of these songs were indeed hits) spanning angry to spiritual to poetic to just plain uninspired.
Revisiting some of these songs after years of growth, a few things are evident. First, there’s nothing wrong with nice Alanis. The lyrics are a bit hokey and saccharin at times, but the come from an authentic place, unlike the hundreds of imitators who’ve followed in her footsteps.
Second: Most of the things on “Ironic” are not really forms of irony. At 16, it was the coolest song in the world. Now, I just wanna know what class taught her that “good advice you just didn’t take” or “rain on your wedding day” was indeed irony. Try getting married in Seattle, lady. Odds are!
Third: There are some hidden gems sprinkled throughout Alanis’ long and potent career that now, in retrospect, deserve far more praise than they were given at the time. “Uninvited,” her hit from the City of Angels soundtrack, finds Alanis sure voiced and raging, the orchestrations lush and intricately composed. Alanis wrote the track herself. “That I Would Be Good” is an ode to acceptance every young person should hear and “Sister Blister,” a track only released as an extra on the 2002 release Feast on Scraps, is Alanis at her lyrical best.
The only new offering here is a remake of Seal’s “Crazy,” and it’s Alanis’ finest hour in years, a sign that while the first stage of her career may be over, there much more in store for this oft misunderstood, sometimes under appreciated Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.
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Then, she turned around, grew up and got nice. Too nice! When she started thanking India, I turned elsewhere for my musical inspiration. By the time she finally got back to being somewhat perturbed, it was too late. I’d moved on!
Now, ten years later, sporting a slightly more fem haircut and a jumbo sized rock from fiancée Ryan Reynolds (all the more reason for me to hate her, the bitch), Alanis offers up The Collection, her greatest hits (and yes, actually, most of these songs were indeed hits) spanning angry to spiritual to poetic to just plain uninspired.
Revisiting some of these songs after years of growth, a few things are evident. First, there’s nothing wrong with nice Alanis. The lyrics are a bit hokey and saccharin at times, but the come from an authentic place, unlike the hundreds of imitators who’ve followed in her footsteps.
Second: Most of the things on “Ironic” are not really forms of irony. At 16, it was the coolest song in the world. Now, I just wanna know what class taught her that “good advice you just didn’t take” or “rain on your wedding day” was indeed irony. Try getting married in Seattle, lady. Odds are!
Third: There are some hidden gems sprinkled throughout Alanis’ long and potent career that now, in retrospect, deserve far more praise than they were given at the time. “Uninvited,” her hit from the City of Angels soundtrack, finds Alanis sure voiced and raging, the orchestrations lush and intricately composed. Alanis wrote the track herself. “That I Would Be Good” is an ode to acceptance every young person should hear and “Sister Blister,” a track only released as an extra on the 2002 release Feast on Scraps, is Alanis at her lyrical best.
The only new offering here is a remake of Seal’s “Crazy,” and it’s Alanis’ finest hour in years, a sign that while the first stage of her career may be over, there much more in store for this oft misunderstood, sometimes under appreciated Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie.
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