24: you oughta know-- alanis morissette

finally. an angry rock song by a canadian lass that you can sing along to. and it has the f-word (the christmas present i had been waiting for). i mean, to my juvenile brain, this song was very racy and very (strangely) exciting. and i definitely appreciated the fact that the words were discernible, though, knowing what was being sung did not exactly mean that i undertood it (going down?).

back then, if we let this cd get played in the car with mom driving, we always had to skip over track number 2. i also recall older kids in the neighborhood coming over and being impressed that we had the cd (technically my sister and i owned it collectively). so the magic of alanis was double: unacceptable for mom. accepted by older kids. score.

for me, this song had edge; at the time, i had never heard a woman sound so angry, and to a notsoangry 5th grader, it was very compelling. the sexual element of the song also made it downright scandalous (which was kinda cool). it had an element of rebellion in it; a song i could listen to in private but never around adults, and i liked that. it was kind of at that point where deviance in a more adolescent form was becoming evident (like cussing to be cool, which i unfortunately attempted) and this song fit that for me. the timing, attitude and lyrics of this song perhaps ushered me further along that road to being well, more immature (in that olderthan5thgrade kind of way). thanks, alanis.