As long as you vote for him if he wins the nomination, fight hard for whomever you like best, BUT if people purity test him and we get 4 more fucking years of Trump I am giving up on my fellow liberals as asshole children who deserve the horrible lives they will have created for themselves.

And my biggest pet peeve (if I were ever asked by James Lipton, which is unlikely, as I am not an actress), is pretentiousness. And the vinyl collection mentioned SCREAMED of pretension.

Bingo. I’m 35 as well and this album isn’t just a “women’s album”. Everybody I know loves it. It’s on sat radio constantly and for good reason. I can’t think of any other 90s album that gets as much air play as JLP does. Amen for that. 

God this author is such a pretentious self imposed headache. First, she writes with every corny cliche leftist vocabulary. Second, she even admits that her taste in music is only what people tell her is good. If twitter told her the album was great she would love it. She is the definition of a musical sheep.

Yeah, I just watched the video and said “That totally holds up.” Now there are some other songs on the album (I still have the cassette somewhere) that I thought were lame at the time and are probably worse now, but I’ll still scream along to You Oughta Know.  

Mm, no. This is all wrong. I still listen to Jagged Little Pill on a regular basis. I listen to the regular version, the acoustic version, the live version. It’s all good.

And let’s be honest, the album is not about “Perfect” or even “Jagged Little Pill”. It’s about songs like “Mary Jane” that speak to what it is to…

There’s a lot of things to be embarrassed about the 90s. Anything Lime-green, Zubaz, and “X-treme” for instance. Alanis is NOT one of them. JLP was a watershed moment for a woman breaking out of her teen idol status and realizing, holy shit, this guy I was in love with really and truly dicked me over. Not a song of…

The fact that you’re buying ‘90s alterno records from Amazon while ironically joking about it, then lauding Tower Records as something other than a conglomerate that killed real record stores, shows just how little you ever got the existential Gen X angst to begin with. Alanis was always a little vanilla (I mean, she…

Your article reads like you’re too young to know how old you are. It also reads as if you tried to go out of your way to add edge to an otherwise slightly more forgetful story of nearly any person revisiting the music of their puberty. Don’t be so hard on 14 year old you, but more importantly, don’t make out as if…

As a teenage guy when this album came out I also enjoyed it. I have to wholeheartedly disagree with your re-listening sentiment. To me the album is great because the words still ring with emotion. Not my emotion, but hers. To me, art is about pain. When I get into art, which I have in waves for my whole life. It’s…

Strongly disagree. The album is amazing. Maybe check your speakers... or stop wasting money on vinyl. Some music was never meant to be in the format.

I’m listening to Jagged Little Pill on repeat until I see a retraction for this blatant falsehood. 

This editorial is very bad actually. The songs were written by a young person, FOR young people, and in that context they still work. The fact that they don’t appeal to your much older self doesn’t magically transform them into bad songs. It means your taste changed. Which is natural. Don’t crap on your younger self,…

Jagged Little Pill saved me from killing myself in 2008 when 18-year-old me quit school and moved back into my parents’ house after being raped. Her anger, defiance, unrepentant “messiness” and joy made me feel heard and gave me hope that one day, I could feel better and that I was “good enough,” even though I was a…

Counterpoint, Jagged Little Pill was actually very good. It has won about a half billion awards and is a cultural touchstone for the era. At least 4 of the songs on the album have effectively permeated culture to the point that anyone who lived through that era would recognize them instantly and most people would be…

Nah, I appreciate you’re trying to have a funny take on it, but you’re just wrong. It’s a fantastic pop-rock album. Gotta agree with fellow commenter JennaW:

This is a profoundly bad take! Know your audience. If we’re reading jezebel, we A) love Jagged Little Pill and B) certainly do not value your husbands opinion on it.
This is clearly clickbait and I shouldn’t even engage but I will never not stand up for JLP or AM herself.

FIRST OF ALL, if your opinion of your own music taste is this:
“My taste in music is pretty much either: What the cool kids were listening to back in middle school, or contemporary Top 40.”

Then perhaps you might not be the one to call Alanis Morrissette lyrics “feeble.” Just my two cents.

Second of all, try to tell me…

I think you completely misinterpreted the song “perfect”. It’s more about trying to live up to the expectations of a parent who only loves and validates you when you achieve things, rather than loving you unconditionally as a parent should. The damaging effects of these kind of relationships can be crippling and…

oh look ironic “i’m admittedly not cool but actually that’s what makes me cool” girl has logged onto the Worldwide Web to tell us an album about a woman surviving molestation is bad, actually