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JLP Acoustic | 17427__alanis_l
SHE OUGHTA KNOW BETTER Morissette
Alanis Morissette: Stephane Gizard/Starface/Retna

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Release Date: Jun 13, 2005; Lead Performance: Alanis Morissette; Genre: Rock

Ten-year reunions are fun. Who got fat? Who got married? What happened to the dark-haired boy you mooned over in homeroom? They're a little less fun, however, without the element of surprise. When Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill came out in 1995, it exploded like a giant Canadian grrrl bomb, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide. Today, of course, the raven-haired banshee who howled ''I'm here to remind you/Of the mess you left when you went away'' has mellowed into a kinder, gentler creature, a champion of the dear-diary, incense-and-vanilla-candles school of confessional songwriting. JLP Acoustic, though pretty, the stripped-down treatment of tracks like ''You Oughta Know'' is mostly free of innovation, softening rather than sharpening the originals' enjoyably jagged edges. Call it Sort of Pointy Pill.


Posted Jun 13, 2005
 

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