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Alanis Morissette—"You Oughta Know"

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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How Alanis Made Me Feel Grown Up

"I want my mother to know that I know that this is not appropriate, but everything else like is okay. And I'm grown up enough to handle this and to self-sensor," she says. "My mother is not really a musical person or a pop culture person so I have no idea if she even knew what was going on in the song." She had no appreciation for all that you were doing for her,. That's very sad in its way. Did Alanis sound grown up or did she make you feel grown up? Like did this record change you in any tangible way if only to make like the childish shit that you'd been listening to before feel more childish? You

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