In the past few years, I’ve been an extremely late bandwagon-jumper. By the time I realize something is cool, it’s already beyond uncool. I don’t quite know why I’m pathetic like this. It’s not like I don’t want to be part of the Cool Kids Club because I so do. (Where are the applications for that, by the way?) I think I just get a bit overwhelmed in the hype of things. This past month, I’ve been like a deer in headlights that flash the words, “OMG! EDWARD! VAMPIRE LOVE 4EVA!” I’m rather frightened by it all. Hold me.
Anyway, this is all to tell you that I’ve discovered a super awesome new artist you need to hear. Her name is Alanis Morissette.
OK, OK. Before you think I live on Jupiter or in Wyoming or something, I have reasons for not loving her in the late ’90s when everyone else did. I was a good churchy kid and she sang about things like going down on you in a theater. Also, my freshman English teacher tried teaching us the meaning of irony by dissecting the lyrics of “Ironic.” I didn’t get it. Rain on your wedding day? A traffic jam when you’re already late? These things aren’t really ironic, are they? Mostly just shitty. I didn’t know about this Alanis chick.
Anyway, this weekend, I got to be the singer in Rock Band 2 and picked “You Outta Know” because there are limited song options for girls and this was the only one I kinda knew. Dude. It’s the BEST SONG EVER. I made “the band” (me and Matt) repeat it three times in a row because it’s that good. Singing it makes you feel pissed off and empowered — like a real rock star! Then Matt told me most of her angsty songs are about Uncle Joey on Full House (her ex), which makes it, um, a little less rock star-ish, but whatever. Still love it. Now I totally want to buy Jagged Little Pill and grow my hair long and stare at things with a burning gaze.
Hmm. Maybe if I get really good at the song, there’ll be some vlog action here. Though I’m pretty sure someone will talk me out of it.
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P.S. Thanks for the concern in regards to my last post. I got my meds and just as the doctor predicted, I felt much better after the first pill. Drugs rule!
12 responses so far ↓
1 mimsie // Dec 2, 2008 at 5:07 am
Oh gawd I <3 that album! And I totally did not know that re: Uncle Joey. I can’t decide if that makes it more or less awesome.
Thought about it: more awesome.
2 Laurie | Your Ill-fitting Overcoat // Dec 2, 2008 at 9:31 am
I just want her HAIR in this pic! Va-voom!
3 Noelle // Dec 2, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I didn’t like her much when she first came out because I thought I was too cool for school. Now I know almost all the lyrics to her songs, and I can’t help but like them.
4 Mermanda // Dec 2, 2008 at 3:18 pm
“…Before you think I live on Jupiter or in Wyoming or something…”
LOL!
5 m@ // Dec 2, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Breakups should be as memorable as they are devastating. One can only hope to be immortalized in song form like Uncle Joey.
6 alexa // Dec 2, 2008 at 6:28 pm
i recently listened to alanis’s interview she did on howard stern and it made me love her even more. and her new music is AMAZING.
7 Maxie // Dec 2, 2008 at 7:41 pm
You Outta Know is basically my favorite 90s song. You definitely need to d/l the whole album.
8 Revanche // Dec 3, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Hah, my English teacher used that song to teach us what is NOT ironic. She hated that song, and dissected it all the hell.
9 Jess // Dec 3, 2008 at 6:36 pm
If you find those applications to the Cool Kids Club, definitely let me know. It’s like once I graduated from college I got all kinds of lame. The kind of lame that has me asking my 13 year old cousin “who the hell is that?” during the VMAs. And I was never even a fan of New Kids on the Block so their comeback has done very little for my cool quotient.
10 Fishing Around // Dec 3, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I’d like an application too when you get ahold of ‘em.
I tried not to get in the craze but those individuals whom I know with teenage girls got me hooked. Hence, I have an undying love for Edward.
Alanis. Totally iced. I pretended I didn’t like her music. But I secretly did. I haven’t heard a lot of her new album though.
11 Renee // Dec 3, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I’ve been an Alanis fan since Jagged Little Pill came out in the 4th grade and I got it for Christmas because my parents didn’t know better. I did not know, however, that she was all angsty because of UNCLE JOEY! Now I’m slightly skeezed out…
12 Andrea // Dec 3, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Funny you should mention Alanis… I was a big fan of hers for a while, but I stopped listening to her a few years ago, and just gave her music another spin a couple days ago.
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