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Alanis Morissette—"You Oughta Know"

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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How to Censor You Shouldn't Know

"I knew it was a bad word. I knew it was not going to be okay with my mother," he said of the F-word. "It was just, and are you thinking of me when you turn all the way down? That's the word. Not the word." The song is situated grammatically in a way that's pretty evocative.

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