How did this shit sell 300 gorillion copies?
How did this shit sell 300 gorillion copies?
it's good
Isn't it ironic?
It was a different time
Way better than the current crop of twat pop
She sold her soul to Satan in exchange for a hit album. Everything else she did flopped.
because for 90s women in their twenties and thirties it was “omg she’s LITERALLY me”: the album
it's good and there are some great session players on it too.
what album is like that now in 2020s?
unique voice with solid songwriting
"alt rock" female artists were basically a money printer in the 90s
millions of people would buy an album even if they only liked one song because that was the only way to own it
Take your pick. There are literally dozens of rock artists with only one or two popular songs who went platinum in the 90s, and this one had 5 pretty big singles
Gracie abrahms
Women
I do wish the lyrics weren't so horrible, because the songs, performance, and production really are great. Alanis became a much better songwriter on her later records, but an artist's best work is frequently not their most popular.
But the big thing is that Alanis is just a really good singer. Combine that with great songs and a real strong sense of personality, it's no wonder this record was such a smash.
Y u call her by her first name you dont know that bitch
Everything else she did flopped.
deservedly so
Lana Del Ray
saw her live yesterday, not a fan of her music but her live energy is contagious and she has an amazing voice
lana del rey most likely because they wont shut the fuck up about her
THIS ALBUM LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE!
fpbp
Its a fucking fantastic album. Her voice is amazing and every song has more hooks than a fisherman's tacklebox. Not sure what there is to be confused about.
I fucking hate Alanis as a person though. She's such a dumb bitch.
if you can record music that's cool wine aunt-coded AND make it cross over to actual moms then you're basically set for life
you gotta hand it to alanis and shania, their biggest most inescapable hits weren't soppy ballads and for that we should all be very thankful
I feel the same way about Tori Amos, an amazing musical talent, but a completely unbearable narcissistic feminist.
kys faggot
You forgot that every one of these songs could be played on the radio which is how everyone heard new music back then.
Say what you will, but I love the guitar on this song.....
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I WANNA SEE ALANIS's MORISSETTE
Quit being cute, Kayleigh Rose!
94
alternative rock was mainstream and lapped up happily by the masses
constant MTV airplay months, if not years on end
Hmm. I wonder why, OP.
rodrigo
Glen ballard does Tori Amos
That's how
Weird timing, I listened to this album today for the first time. It's catchy.
That's a testament to its quality imo. Not really my type of music but an undeniably solid, consistent album
women
Dudes liked this too, it wasn't like it is now. PJ Harvey and Bjork might have even had more male fans in the 90's. Even Tori Amos had a lot of male fans then. My brother was college aged in the early 90's and loved them all, right alongside NIN and Fugazi etc.
I like some of the songs there, but i feel like Juliana Hatfield deserved the success that Alanis got in the 90s
I just found out the other day that You Oughta Know is about fucking Uncle Joey from Full House lmao, they dated when he was 30 and she was 19
My brother was college aged in the early 90's and loved them all, right alongside NIN and Fugazi etc.
you know he's gay right
It was a different time
I too hate narcissists
Glenn Ballard co-wrote (Alanis did most of the lyrics) the entire album, produced it, and played multiple instruments on the album. Alanis did lyrics, singing, and harmonica. She was a teen star with a couple of dance pop albums under her belt but he recognized her talent and took a chance on her and it paid off big. She told Glenn she wanted to "make music like Tori Amos and Sinead O' Connor", but he also wanted a commercial hit so he made alt *radio pop*. She was charismatic and sang great, people loved that shit.
Sadly he didn't work with her after the second album so she pretty much completely fell into obscurity. I just saw somewhere recently that she's about to do a Vegas residency lol.
her ego is unfortunate because her nineties run was god tier
Morrissey's autobiography says that he was called into a record exec's office once but handwaved away when he started doing his gay drama queen bullshit, and supposedly the next in the list was Alanis *Morrissette* who shortly after artificially blew up in popularity. I kinda believe him
The Nirvana effect. I shit you not, after grunge blew up, music label execs were in a frenzy looking for the next big "alt" thing.
If you check out her first 2 albums, they were some very zeitgeisty, funky dance-pop, copying Paula Abdul or whoever was the top in that genre.
Then she does the genre switcharoo, hops on the alt scene and does this album.
All produced with a team from the label headed by Glen Ballard. Who <co-wrote> a lot of that album.
A trust-funded album that rebranded her as alt-rock, so that the music industry could continue to sell the alt hype for a while more. They couldn't find the next Cobain/Nirvana, so they had to settle with Morisette, Bush, Offspring, etc.
You're off, there were a couple grunge affectations on a couple songs but Alanis was never grunge, never part of that throughline or scene, it was girly alternative pop and was followed by a lot more girly alternative pop
Listen to it and you will know why
Not true at all
We are in a pop renaissance you hipster
And that scene came from what?
It was an offshoot of the grunge/alt-rock current, but presented as the next, popified for a wider audience sort of thing
Obviously she wasn't gonna howl until she spit blood like Cobain on songs like School