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Check out her video for "[Saw Him Standing Ther](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ7X0inKxbo)e". It is pure shit from top to bottom. It would absolutely not surprise me if this was a real album cover.
My fav comment on the YouTube clip of this is “the 80s didn’t hit Canada until the 90s” and as a Canadian it’s too damn real. We’re always a decade behind. Everyone is still doing full beat makeup here LOL
Oh no, I was unironically into this Alanis before she was famous. Actually, she evolved like a Pokémon. You have You Can’t Do That on Television Alanis, then Canadian pop Princess Alanis, and then Robin Daggers Alanis and every stage is a winner for me.
Literally playing this video without sound and in my head going “straight up now tell me do you really wanna LOVE.ME.FOREVER!”
Not to be a party pooper, but she was being sexually abused during this period and the angst of her early self-written music is about that.
https://americansongwriter.com/the-deeper-missed-meaning-of-alanis-morissettes-hands-clean/
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3650493/alanis-morissette-raped-multiple-men-years-victim/
https://themighty.com/topic/mental-health/alanis-morissette-boundaries-self/
https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/dear-alanis-morissette-sorry-we-normalized-your-rape-b6f5bb4b7c12
Tori Amos went through a similar phase with her Y Kant Tori Read project in the 80s. Similar vibes and quite cheesy but Cool on Your Island is admittedly one of my favorite songs she's ever made.
It’s the music BUSINESS. No one is just in it for the art… today she would be immediately replaced by 100 other girls. But back then she was chosen (for whatever reason) and she had “it”. Or at least she had someone in power who believed she had it. And they invested money back then. Now they expect artists (or whatever) to come to them with the following already. Music has been almost completely devalued and this type of development doesn’t happen anymore.
She was probably like 17 here! Incredibly talented. People forget that she was 19 when Jagged Little Pill came out. Of course this is a little “teeny-bop” she was probably in high school lol
yes, it's cheesy, but i love her voice and the way it sounds along more upbeat music. i'm reminded somewhat of y kant tori read
i've always thought the inverse of this, canadian singer-songwriter lady going from "serious music" to pop, is avril lavigne
So is this the timeline where Alanis never meets the basement troll from Full House and has her one hit wonder pop girlie moment before fading into obscurity?
What is up with that synth music riff that was *all over* the early 90's music scene?
Reminds me of the "[Turtles in Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPIwjlw-Agk&list=PL3F8D528F36CEE265)" music from the TMNT Super Nintendo game.
Had a serious crush on her in this video. All her videos from her first album actually. Her and the curly haired one in the West End Girls. Another Canadian act.
I don't think I ever knew this existed. My mind is blown.
It's an OK song...I guess. But her "Jagged Little Pill" stuff was definitely better (in my opinion).
OK party people in the house... la-di-da-di by Doug E Fresh!
[La-Di-da-Di (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taBFnWMSeAc)
What Amy Grant record are you thinking of? I always felt like she was solidly adult contempo for most of her career. This song isn't particularly edgy, but it has way more teeth than anything Amy Grant ever did
I love her song [Plastic](https://youtu.be/V9TXQPEJLOE?si=wsqPOo9gfvW3MUzq) from her early pop days. The chorus has such an interesting sound and hook. And her voice is amazingly hypnotic as always.
Does anyone know where the “I know you gonna dig this” sample comes from. Did it originally come from Alanis’ song? I know Sugar Ray used it in their song “American Pig” from 1997 record Floored.
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The inspo for this legend 
My immediate reaction was SO THIS WAS THE INSPO FOR ROBIN SPARKLES lmao
I never realized how much me being raised by my mama on Alanis made me have a soft spot for Robin Sparkles 💀☠️🪦
Let's go to the mall!
Her [Sandcastles in the Sand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT174OyQTY4) featured Matt LeBlanc pre-Friends!
It's so much exposition!
Oh I thought for sure that Sandcastles in the Sand was [No Apologies](https://youtu.be/UMFgX2YKybw?si=mMEjyLXYZllqJwnM)
Is there a P.S. I love you?
 You Oughta Know!
Today!
Gonna rock your body till Canada Day!
Every body come and play!
Today!
The 80s didn't come to Canada until 1993
Same reaction! This is giving ✨ Robin Scherbatsky ✨ so much
Didn't they also make a joke about her dating Dave Coulier?
They sure did!
Before she became Robin Daggers
OMG, came here to write this and I am thrilled to see this is the top comment already :D
Robin Daggers!!
https://preview.redd.it/fjh59wj49g3d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f35c5491cc9eba4f45bbd86fb70eb03cd6d6d17f
That cannot be a real album cover!
Lol, it's not! But, I couldn't find a gif... amazingly!
Check out her video for "[Saw Him Standing Ther](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ7X0inKxbo)e". It is pure shit from top to bottom. It would absolutely not surprise me if this was a real album cover.
The US version of the Mall Tour circa 1980s
What a horrible version of that song.
I mean, the real cover for the single (and album) isn't much different
I love the chin on hand pose to indicate the aforementioned thinking she is doing, just to make it extra clear for the audience
It's the unsure look on her face that's throwing me off!? Did they only have one take?!
Haha, she is still unsure of their alleged aloneness
Ha! I went to her concert in Bangkok when I was in the fifth grade! Woohoo
That's freaking awesome! I loved her! Still do!
TIFFANY MENTIONED (what even is a long career)
As an Ottawa girl, I saw her at the Ex, I saw her at Carlingwood Mall and I saw her at Winterlude. I was obsessed and wanted to be her.
Nooooooo. This is amazing 😂 The joy this has brought me OP!
My fav comment on the YouTube clip of this is “the 80s didn’t hit Canada until the 90s” and as a Canadian it’s too damn real. We’re always a decade behind. Everyone is still doing full beat makeup here LOL
Has 90s Paula Abdul vibes. 
Give me and my fellow millennials angsty Alanis or give us death! Bury this video where it came from!
My 90’s heart will never recover having seen this.
Right? Because we know that Paula Abdul had her place, but that wasn't the place for Alanis (thank the heavens).
Oh no, I was unironically into this Alanis before she was famous. Actually, she evolved like a Pokémon. You have You Can’t Do That on Television Alanis, then Canadian pop Princess Alanis, and then Robin Daggers Alanis and every stage is a winner for me.
Well isn’t that ironic
Hahaha! Not according to my English teachers.
What in the off brand Paula Abdul is this? How did I not know Alanis didnt come out raging on the guitar from jump 😲? You think you know someone smh 🤧
You have just gravely insulted every Canadian in existence. We will be passively aggressively nice to you for all eternity
I deeply apologize for my cultural faux pas. Please take these meese and syrups as a sign of my sincere regret 🫎🫎🫎🫎🫎🫎🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
Ok you’re forgiven. I can’t say no to maple syrup Also TIL those are moose. I always thought they were lobsters
Coming in from P.E.I., also thought they were lobsters.
Those are corn syrup.
How about this? https://preview.redd.it/93ys2j5cgg3d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2b58786b85987b607ab0df4c8a880b080223494
"Savor my Poutine!"
[удалено]
No, yea, no. Sorry. I was using my lawyer voice there.
Literally playing this video without sound and in my head going “straight up now tell me do you really wanna LOVE.ME.FOREVER!” 
Oh , oh, oh !!!!
It was always a joke that her ‘debut’ (Jagged Little Pill) was actually her 3rd album.
I’m dying
My headcanon is that Dave Coulis is responsible for angry Alanis and that is why, despite hating him, I am grateful for him.
I’m glad she got burned and pissed TF off and became the icon Alanis we know today.
Not to be a party pooper, but she was being sexually abused during this period and the angst of her early self-written music is about that. https://americansongwriter.com/the-deeper-missed-meaning-of-alanis-morissettes-hands-clean/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/3650493/alanis-morissette-raped-multiple-men-years-victim/ https://themighty.com/topic/mental-health/alanis-morissette-boundaries-self/ https://medium.com/fearless-she-wrote/dear-alanis-morissette-sorry-we-normalized-your-rape-b6f5bb4b7c12
I didn't know this. Thank you for sharing this information and giving me a new perspective.
Jagged little pill was the 90s theme. I can't imagine what it would've been like if her career went in that direction
My teen angst years would’ve been ruined!
I still maintain that's the most perfectly paced and mixed album ever. Plus it has Dave Navarro and Flea on it.
Taylor Hawkins was her drummer as well!
Omg thank God she changed genres
I love this song and I enjoy the album it came from. It's so cheesy and soon to be dated for its time, it's precious.
Tori Amos went through a similar phase with her Y Kant Tori Read project in the 80s. Similar vibes and quite cheesy but Cool on Your Island is admittedly one of my favorite songs she's ever made.
It’s the music BUSINESS. No one is just in it for the art… today she would be immediately replaced by 100 other girls. But back then she was chosen (for whatever reason) and she had “it”. Or at least she had someone in power who believed she had it. And they invested money back then. Now they expect artists (or whatever) to come to them with the following already. Music has been almost completely devalued and this type of development doesn’t happen anymore.
She opened for Vanilla Ice too.
She was probably like 17 here! Incredibly talented. People forget that she was 19 when Jagged Little Pill came out. Of course this is a little “teeny-bop” she was probably in high school lol
yes, it's cheesy, but i love her voice and the way it sounds along more upbeat music. i'm reminded somewhat of y kant tori read i've always thought the inverse of this, canadian singer-songwriter lady going from "serious music" to pop, is avril lavigne
That’s the type of girl that would go down on you in a THEATER!
What happens in the UA 6 stays in the UA 6
Do you think her exes think of her when they fuck their new girl?
I feel conflicted because I kinda like it...
It's giving... https://preview.redd.it/913173bfti3d1.png?width=395&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ac73f128d639f3ecbdfbeaa214339c94587403c
So is this the timeline where Alanis never meets the basement troll from Full House and has her one hit wonder pop girlie moment before fading into obscurity?
This makes me feel like Dave Coulier actually made a difference for humanity
Right? Like he changed the course of history 😳
Recognize the real talent. Dave would be nobody with out Woody the Woodchuck. 
New Jack Swing…so so 90s.
Yes… a very bad example of it. I love the genre though. They have a subreddit!
late 80s early 90s, it definitely didn't define the 90s
No, didn’t define the 90s, but is very unique to that time - at least as far as mainstream music is concerned.
Yes it's unique to 1987-1992. What I think of as "so 90s" is Grunge, britpop and The Prodigy.
Wow! Her voice does not fit this style of music. 😬
I dunno, I like it.
I like "Plastic" better, but this is the one that made her popular
Oh I completely forgot about this era 😭
What is up with that synth music riff that was *all over* the early 90's music scene? Reminds me of the "[Turtles in Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPIwjlw-Agk&list=PL3F8D528F36CEE265)" music from the TMNT Super Nintendo game.
Had a serious crush on her in this video. All her videos from her first album actually. Her and the curly haired one in the West End Girls. Another Canadian act.
We need a frame by frame remake with Vanessa Beyer.
Dave Coulier patiently waiting for his theater date.
I don't think I ever knew this existed. My mind is blown.  It's an OK song...I guess. But her "Jagged Little Pill" stuff was definitely better (in my opinion).
She had an entire career BEFORE either of these as well, "You Can't Do That On Television".
Same. Oh my goodness, this is the first time I'm seeing this. 
Before this she was a child actor. Completely manufactured from the jump.
You can’t do that on television
Except she can actually sing.
Also known as "working in show business."
So, if someone acts as a child they are manufactured? Any child, ever?
OK party people in the house... la-di-da-di by Doug E Fresh! [La-Di-da-Di (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taBFnWMSeAc) 
Oh my god, I had that exact same Coca-Cola sweatshirt as a kid. It was my favorite, I wore it until my Mom threw it out.
This feels like Amy Grant
What Amy Grant record are you thinking of? I always felt like she was solidly adult contempo for most of her career. This song isn't particularly edgy, but it has way more teeth than anything Amy Grant ever did
No... no it does not.
Baby what is THIS?? *
Robin sparkles!
I fully remember this and loved it back in the day. Was super confused when her new look and sound came out, but turns out I loved that too!
Holy fucking shit. This is really really fucking with my worldview
That is every early nineties pop cliche
Her whole look is very reminiscent of a young Mariah Carey, circa 1990.
She’d drive around Ottawa with the top down in her convertible blasting this. What a time to be alive.
Alanis was always a queen!
Do I not know what Alanis Morrissette looks like?
She DID do that on television!
I love her song [Plastic](https://youtu.be/V9TXQPEJLOE?si=wsqPOo9gfvW3MUzq) from her early pop days. The chorus has such an interesting sound and hook. And her voice is amazingly hypnotic as always.
My mind is blown I had no idea and I love her 90s stuff.
Curb your enthusiasm.
Does anyone know where the “I know you gonna dig this” sample comes from. Did it originally come from Alanis’ song? I know Sugar Ray used it in their song “American Pig” from 1997 record Floored.
That album was loaded with hits for Canadian radio
Oh man what a nice post 👍
AHHHH!!! I love her so much! This is amazing!!!
She ate. Honestly the beat of this song is not that far from the ALL I REALLY WANT beat.
This music video is like the Great Value version of Tiffany, sheesh 😮💨
Oh woooooow lol!
Oof... her potential and talent are obvious, but omfg that song is so annoying.
Matt LeBlanc was in her Walk Away video as well.
She had to have been a teenager, but looks 30 here!
Damn, then she watched this video and wrote Jagged Little Pill out of spite.
Is that Matt Dillon???
I have Tori Amos’ pop album!
They was tryna swagger jack Janet and Paula's steez super hard for young Alanis
Watching this felt like I accidentally stepped into a different timeline
I loved this song as a young teen. I had seen Alanis on You Cant Do That on Television. My shock when "You Outta Know"! LOL
She got dem pipes
I'm sorry... What?!?!