![]() ![]() ![]() I was so captivated by the unapologetic fire in Alanis Morissette's voice as she belted out "You Oughta Know" that I knew this record too would become a regular part of my listening sessions. In 1994, to avoid the ninth grade onslaught of agonizing over algebra and earth science homework, I often blasted Tori Amos' Under The Pink and Hole's Live Through This, shouting along with Courtney Love to "Violet," and getting chills every time I heard Amos sing, "Can't stop what's coming, can't stop what is on its way" on "Bells For Her." My love for Madonna - forerunner of these brazen, beautiful talents and the subject of an English paper written that year - was unwavering, so Like A Prayer, her 1989 tour de force, was also in heavy rotation, played out of nostalgic reverence.Ī year later, when Jagged Little Pill made its debut in 1995, I was 16, heaps more infuriated with the world, still yearning for a sign that beyond my salacious thoughts and underneath my too-bright mask of Maybelline, there was a sliver of something soft and magical wedged inside me that someone could see. ![]()
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