Co-writer and producer Glen Ballard says "Ironic" was the third song he wrote with Alanis Morissette and it was rolling within 15 minutes. "Ironic" was the third official single from Jagged Little Pill. "And every time you speak her name Does she know how you told me You'd hold me until you died Till you died, but you're still alive"Īlanis Morissette - "Ironic".
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Alanis Morissette held the record for the most consecutive weeks at the top of the alternative chart by a female artist until Lorde broke the record 18 years later with "Royals."Īlanis Morissette didn't identify a real-life individual who is the target of "You Oughta Know." It became a much-talked-about pop music mystery much like the identity of the man in Carly Simon's legendary "You're So Vain." Former boyfriend Dave Coulier, star of the TV show Full House, said many of the lines hit very close to home. It topped the alternative chart for five weeks and reached the top 10 at mainstream pop radio and on the Billboard Hot 100. To the surprise of Alanis Morissette's label, the song became a major hit. Before the release of this single, Alanis Morissette recorded bubblegum pop as a teen artist. Courtesy Maverickįew debut pop singles have ever had the visceral impact of the bile Alanis Morissette unleashed in "You Oughta Know" against a former lover. American Idol contestant Crystal Bowersox covered the song as a short cut in an early round of her Idol performances.Alanis Morissette - "You Oughta Know". It was also covered by alt-country band The Cowlicks on their album Psychedelic Service Station. The song has also been parodied by Amateur Transplants on the album Fitness to Practice as part of the song "Snippets".
It was parodied by ' Rockin Jock' but credit for this parody, 'Trouble', is usually wrongly accredited to Billy Connolly under the title 'Evil Scotsman'. The song was covered by Rolf Harris on his 1997 album Can you tell what it is yet. While Morissette does not carry the scheme consistently throughout the song (there are, for instance, no rhymes for "hailing a taxicab" or "playing the piano"), it is, nonetheless, a fairly sophisticated literary device. In the first chorus for example, "fine, fine, fine" is coupled with "a high five", when it should, according to traditional rhyming schemes, be instead set against the "a peace sign" which closes the third chorus, and which is in turn, coupled with a first line ending with the phrase, "a cigarette", which is a clear rhyme with the end of the second chorus: "out just yet". The chorus of "Hand in My Pocket" utilized a poetry technique, "rhyme juxtaposition" (utilized by authors such as Lewis Carroll and musicians such as Bob Dylan and John Lennon), as its primary lyrical structure, as exemplified by the off-set coupling of the first and second stanzas of each chorus.
"Hand in My Pocket" served as the theme song in the unaired pilot episode of the television show Dawson's Creek, but Morissette decided not to have it used as the theme after the show was picked up. The single's video features Morissette among a homecoming parade and was filmed in black-and-white and slow motion. single, and its video premiered in July 2005 (see 2005 in music). In 2005, Morissette released Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, an acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill. "Not the Doctor" (live acoustic) – 3:57."Head over Feet" (live acoustic) – 4:09."Hand in My Pocket" also received substantial airplay on pop radio, reaching the top five on the Top 40 Mainstream chart, but its success in the United Kingdom was limited. It was released as the album's second single in 1995 (see 1995 in music) and became Morissette's second number-one hit on Billboard's U.S.
" Hand in My Pocket" is a song written by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard, and produced by Ballard for Morissette's third album, Jagged Little Pill (1995). Template:Extra chronology Template:Extra chronology From the album Jagged Little Pill Acoustic