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Alanis Morissette—"You Oughta Know"

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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The End of Alonis on the Radio

In 1990, Mariah Carey's first album came out and that would sell 15 million copies worldwide. The Macarena was big around then also if that helps explain anything, which maybe it doesn't. There's a song called Ironic that describes a number of scenarios that are not strictly speaking ironic but primarily it's about you ought to know. In the 90s, music magazines back when it was music magazines, plural put together somewhere between 50 and 800 women in rock packages. What came to set Alonis apart, even from the Lilith Fair crowd to come, was how angry and messy she was.

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