(“If you weren’t so wise beyond your years I would’ve been able to control myself,” read the lyrics, told from his point of view. Morissette’s fourth album, Under Rug Swept, contained a song called Hands Clean whose confessional lyrics tell of an underage Alanis being taken advantage of by an older, more powerful man in her industry. Most surprising, or perhaps not surprising at all, is how relevant these songs still are, bristling with the anger and energy of the #MeToo movement that’s sweeping the globe.
She follows You Learn with All I Really Want, harmonica and all, and a woman behind me whispers delightedly: “She sounds exactly the same!” And it’s not just women, but the feminine that’s rising up.’ Photograph: Sam Tabone/WireImageĪn Evening with Alanis Morissette was billed as an exclusive set of acoustic shows for Australia and New Zealand, and the audience are mostly as old, or older, than me and remember all the words. She got the memo.Īlanis Morissette: ‘It’s a different world now, thank God. She settles into a stool, flanked by two guitarists, and commences to play pretty much every song from the album. I say ‘we’ because I’m terrified of intimacy.” “We’ve missed you!” she says, before correcting herself: “Well, I’ve missed you.
Morissette walks on to the middle of the stage to deafening applause. One of the bestselling albums of all time, it won five Grammys, sent Morissette on an 18-month tour of the world, and has soundtracked the daggiest singalongs of every hen’s weekend for the past two decades. Since then, it has been followed by five LPs, acting cameos on TV and film (Morissette plays an actual God in Dogma), a wellness and spirituality podcast and, for a brief stint, an advice column in this publication.īut most of us are at Melbourne’s Palais theatre hoping for Jagged Little Pill. She started writing Jagged Little Pill when she was 20.
Googling her before her first Australian show in almost 20 years, I’m shocked to discover that my idol back then wasn’t a fully formed adult at all, but just 22.
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