My emotional reaction is screw you teen boys. As someone who was barked at while walking my high school halls, I want them all held accountable for their behavior. (Decades on this still stings.) My logical reaction: good for this school for addressing, and let’s keep calling this behavior out so young men no longer…

Thank you. I came around again to say this about Perfect. Even as a 9-year-old (JLP was my first CD!), it was pretty crystal clear to me that it’s about shitty parents, not self-image. That’s not because I was exceptionally bright, but because the lyrics are literally a parent gently berating and then rage-screaming…

This whole article smacks of internalized misogyny. 

Tracy Clark-Flory Is Actually Very Wrong???

Bra-fucking-vo! Spot on! Her take reminds me of the people who take enjoyment from others by denigrating something that they no longer think is “cool”. The sports writer (though his best columns actually aren’t about sports) Joe Posnanski wrote about the time his daughters were watching a parade at Disney World, and…

I’m kind of a music snob. And in my music snob universe, I’ve always considered Alanis a new-age Leonard Cohen. She wrote her hit album at NINETEEN, for volcano gurl’s sake.

Saw Alanis Morissette on tour with Tori Amos in '99. Went for Tori, stayed for Alanis. It was a great show! It was right after the follow up to JLP when she did that video for "Thank You" where she was naked on the subway. All the guys in my class hated that video, so I naturally liked it.

How is encouraging someone to listen to something new bad? They may find something that they really like, or just really relate to. I’ve found tons of new music that I really enjoy because my friends (male and female) have recommended something to me.

Did you miss the part where Shane said that Mandy didn’t listen to…

I kinda felt like Shane West was making of himself for trying to get MM to listen to his style of music. Like “LOL look how dumb I was trying to get you to listen to The Ramones”

I’m sorry the person you were when you were younger embarrasses you so much now, but that does not make this album bad, it makes your perspective shallow.

Quintessential 90s album on vinyl?

Think about the term “guilty pleasure” and what’s often cited:  things women are “supposed” to like such as romantic comedies, pop music, chick lit.  Have you ever heard of anything masculine-coded as someone’s guilty pleasure?

Girl. No. This is a bad take and you should feel bad about it.

I was 22 when this came out.  I still like it and make no apologies.

Girl, yes. Jagged Little Pill and Live Through This came out when I was 14/15 and they were perfection to me.

Yeah, but I saw the musical “Jagged Little Pill” last summer at ART in Cambridge, Massachusetts and it was REALLY GOOD. And it’s coming to Broadway, so there’s that...

I don’t agree with your take. I saw Alanis in concert last summer and she rocked all the songs from Jagged Little Pill and it absolutely still holds up. 

As a kid that hit middle school a year after this album came out, Jagged Little Pill felt like the first time I had permission to be ANGRY or disgruntled.

I have not listened to Jagged Little Pill in a very long time, but don’t ruin it for me. What’s next on your list? Pieces of You by Jewel?

I personally think if the Fab 5 just focused on telling them to execute the basic responsibilities of just being an average accountable adult, that some of the men they were helping would still not grasp it. I find it is was more effective of them to use the “Self Care” angle to introduce concepts like that to…