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Alanis Morissette (b. June 1, 1974) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and the winner of seven Grammy awards. She began her path to fame by being on ''[[You Can't Do That Onon Television]]'', and then going to [[New York City]] to compete in ''[[Star Search]]''. Her first two albums were chock-full of horribly-produced, cheesy dance-pop with lame lyrics. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|She was the opening act for Vanilla Ice, too.]] She gained real international fame with the [[New Sound Album]] ''Jagged Little Pill'' and its follow-up ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'', which were [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel|vast improvements]] over her previous material and introduced her [[Signature Style]] of catchy pop-rock combined with [[Motor Mouth|Motor Mouthy]], really wordy introspective lyrics.
 
She is also [[God]]. Or at least, she played Her in ''[[Dogma]]''. Her website reveals she is going to star in [[The Film of the Book]] of ''[[Radio Free Albemuth]]'', a [[Philip K. Dick]] novel.
 
Also, [[Never Live It Down|she doesn't understand]] the [[You Keep Using That Word|meaning]] of the word [[Irony|"ironic."]] Even if irony was simply any "amusing coincidence" (which is overly generous), most of the lines in the song are not - each one is either tragic, annoying, or inconvenient, but not ironic. The Irish comedian Ed Byrne did once describe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg some qualifiers which would MAKE certain lines ironic] (such as the line about rain on your wedding day -- ironic if you're the weatherman). As American comedian [[George Carlin]] put this in one of his books:
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* ''Feast on Scraps'' (2002) (a combined CD/DVD release; the CD has nine previously unreleased songs that didn't make her other albums, and the DVD was filmed at a concert in [[Freestate Amsterdam|Rotterdam]])
* ''So-Called Chaos'' (2004)
* ''Jagged Little Pill Acoustic'' (2005) ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|an acoustic remake of]] ''[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Jagged Little Pill]]'')
* ''[[Greatest Hits Album|Alanis Morissette: The Collection]]'' (2005)
* ''Flavors of Entanglement'' (2008)
* Havoc and Bright Lights (2012)
 
Also worth mentioning is "Uninvited," one of the major singles from the soundtrack of the film ''[[City of Angels (Filmfilm)|City of Angels]]''. It's never been released on any of her albums.
 
"You Oughta Know" is featured in ''[[Rock Band]]'' 2, with "Ironic" and "Head Over Feet" available as DLC. All songs are on the old platform (guitar, bass, pro drums, one vocal part).
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** ''Under Rug Swept'' is a line from "Hands Clean".
** And ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie'' can be found in "So Pure".
* [[Award Bait Song]]: "Wunderkind" from ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'', and "I Remain" from ''[[Prince of Persia: theThe Sands of Time (Film)|Prince of Persia the Sands of Time]]''.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: "You Oughta Know" is a classic case of Bowdlerization not working. The song was very popular among teens, but of course, there's an F-bomb in it. At school dances and similar functions, the radio edit version would play where the offending word was simply muted. So what would happen when that spot in the song came up? Everyone in the room would shout out the offending word at the muted point.
** To be fair, most radio stations played it such that it went, "When you ffffff- her." Which actually sounded good too.
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* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]
* [[Friends Withwith Benefits]]: "Head Over Feet" is the [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Godiva Hair]]: The music video of "Thank You".
* [[In the Style Of]]: The [[Black Eyed Peas (Music)|Black Eyed Peas]]' "My Humps" [[Rearrange the Song|as a]] [[Lyrical Dissonance|slow ballad]]. Also qualifies as a [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|Funny Moments]].
* [[Isn't It Ironic?]]: The [[Trope Namer]], though not an example.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: ''Jagged Little Pill'' can induce this, as the themes and moods shift drastically from song to song.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: She has this obsession with fitting as many syllables as possible into a line...
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: Starting with ''Junkie'', Alanis incorporated electronic and world influences into her music. Which is not to say ''Jagged Little Pill'' wasn't already pretty genre-fusiony, with its combination of lots of drumloops and electronics filched from [[Beck (Musicmusician)|Beck]] with [[Post -Grunge]] guitars.
* [[New Sound Album]]: Both ''Jagged Little Pill'' and ''Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie''; the latter was an even larger departure.
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: "Front Row" makes a reference to this in the song's chorus:
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* [[Signature Song]]: "You Oughta Know" and "Ironic".
* [[Stage Mom]]: "Perfect" is about this trope.
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: "Your House", the [[Hidden Track]] at the end of ''Jagged Little Pill''. It's a song about sneaking into her ex-boyfriend's house and smelling his clothes. And now you know why men get scared when they hear Alanis' voice or find out that their girlfriends listen to her music.
* [[Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion]]: Alanis, in a show of support, altered the lyrics of her song "Ironic" to:
{{quote| It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife,<br />
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* [[Surreal Music Video]]: "You Learn".
* [[Teen Idol]]: ([[Canon Dis Continuity|Where did you]] [[Old Shame|get that idea?]])
* [[Unplugged Version]]: ''[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Jagged Little Pill Acoustic]]''
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: While there might be a meaning behind it, "Thank U" has verses that qualify in this trope:
{{quote| How 'bout gettin' off of these antibiotics?<br />
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