Here are 12 revelations from the film.Īlanis wrote her first song at 10 years old.Īround the same time that she booked a gig on the iconic kids’ show You Can’t Do That on Television, Alanis was discovering her voice - literally. So if you want to know about everything going on behind the scenes that made that album what it was - the creepy older producers and the abusive record-company execs and the horny bandmates and the young girl who was left to fend for herself in a very adult world - Jagged fills in some of the blanks. It’s just an expression, unjudged, uncensored. “I’m writing because it’s the only environment where I can get angry and not be destructive.
“When I write really angry songs about someone I’m not writing to get back at that person,” she explains in an archival interview. And shamed.”īut Morissette took it all in stride for the times, decades before MeToo and Time’s Up she saved her slings and arrows for her work. If you spoke up you were just immediately shut down. “All of a sudden I started naming it or singing about it - that was not welcome. “Empowerment was exciting for a lot of people, but it was not good news for the patriarchy,” current-day Alanis says in the film. Even the cover stories and four-star reviews held their noses at the scent of Alanis’ so-called female rage (her first cover for this magazine, shown in the film, bore the line “Angry White Female”), resting their praise on a bed of skepticism and condescension. Of course, despite the massive success Jagged Little Pill became - it sold 33 million copies, making it the second-biggest-selling album by a female artist of all time - the album wasn’t received sexism-free. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songs Charting Morissette’s explosive rise to fame, director Alison Klayman artfully stitches together archival footage and present-day interviews with several of the people who had a front-row seat to the phenomenon: the singer herself her co-writer and producer, Glen Ballard bandmates Taylor Hawkins and Chris Chaney record executive Guy Oseary childhood friends and various music journalists and cultural critics. Focused first on Morissette’s time as a tween star in her home country of Canada, and then on the making and release a few years later of her breakout album, Jagged Little Pill, the documentary is a time capsule of the mid- to late-Nineties music scene - that brief sweet spot when Courtney Love and Shirley Manson and Gwen Stefani and Alanis nudged their way into the boys’ clubs of alt-rock and grunge, no spray-on abs or push-up bras in sight. That’s the one Jagged is concerned with, and man, is it nice to re-meet her. The one who threw on Adidas low-tops and an oversized T-shirt and thrashed her hip-length, un-straightened, un-blonde hair around any stage she could find while absolutely destroying a hook about how her whole purpose in life is to never let some guy forget what a prick bastard he is.
Do you remember Alanis Morissette? Not the Buddhism-practicing, essential-oil-mixing, Earth-mother figure we know today.
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