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  • A big part of the 80's was the induction of music video. This song was pumped, she was hot, it served her well. I used to love listening to this.

  • I think Alanis always wanted to be traditionally "hot" but she's not.....which served her well in the backlash "reinvention" of Jagged Little Pill where she's, like, so alternative and droll; which was about as fabricated as this ridiculous song. Sorry Alanis, Canadians are harsh on their own :) You made it -- so who cares!!

  • the best thing alanis ever did... was not this.

  • WTF?>?? OH HELLLLLL NO.

  • love

  • what's this s**t??

    

  • wow....I def like "Jagged Little Pill" Alanis Morissette better than this...some of you call JLP stuff 'weird'. Well, to me, this is 'weird'. :D:D

  • Loved this song when it first came out.Who would ever think you would become so big

  • Well, at the time when this piece hit the Charts I thought, dam, what a singer! But then she started making strange songs... weird songs... very bizzare songs... and when she hooked up with madona, I knew right then and there she would tumble down. I thought what a waste of talent and potential. That was (back then) how I learned to lower my expectations as per the "music" that was to come in the future.

  • @jnyveslbl You prefer this generic dance fluff to her later output? If she'd stuck with this format, today she'd be as forgotten as Tiffany.

  • @cygil1 As a "singer", yes, this piece allowed her to express her talent (as a singer). Now she's gone, she made tons of gold and that's all what she wanted (the "american way"). She made her own choice and that's fine.

  • This song was HOT back in the day! Alanis always knew what was going on!

  • This song was the jam when I was kid. I knew about pop Alanis before Jagged Little Pill. I like both, people evolve and change :)

  • omg I remember this song!! I remember when she came out in the pop genre first...when i saw her do alternative music for the first time after this i just knew she was going to hit rock stardom! Not a bad song but just imagine if she would have continued on this path...she would have been a nobody and music would not be what it is today...she changed music because everyone after her started cracking their voices and what not..also alternative became mainstream

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  • jagged little pill...ok 

  • holy nut balls! O_O alanis???? WOW and I thought she was a total hippy all the way......lol this is ok tho..lol people morph into different personalities all the time...lol

  • I used to like these songs because they were the OST for Corey Haim's movie Just One of The Girls, I didn't even know this was her! OMG, I wish she had kept this attitude, I mean, her post Jagged Little Pill stuff was good but this music was much more fun to listen to, Dave Coullier must have really destroyed her for her to turn her music into utter despair.

  • this wa sthe shit back then a hottie from canada who did pop justice and for that time was great to get pumped up and dance ...pre jagged this wasepic wish she never went to alt angry bitch bullshit dont get me wrong i like songs off jagged but nothing compares before lagy gaga and britney it was alanis!

  • Awesome song

    I love Alanis, she was good then and good now!

  • Eww.

  • I Think Alanis should guest star on How I Met Your Mother as Robin's musical competition during the Robin Sparkles era, Kinda like the Debbie Gibson / Tiffany era in the 80s

  • @PowerGlove79 I agree. This is funny.

  • Back in the day I used to like shit like this and Paula Abdul...by shit I don't mean it sucked though, it *is* pretty catchy, honestly. Kinda weird for me I guess, but hell, I appreciate all Alanis's stuff, from then to now. It does crack me up as to how corny stuff was in the early 90's though. Compared to todays crap though, this is actually pretty good, I mean she at least always was a good vocalist. You go, Alanis!

  • I say this is like a Pre Kelly Clarkson

  • I loved her attitude back in these days until she went all "Jagged Pill".

  • I think this is more like Paula Abdul than Robin Sparkles.

  • @gipnfdl007 She's only 37, and she's beautiful. Don't be a dick, she is now who she wants to be and that's something to be proud of.

  • Women in the early 90's were hot.

  • i think tyce diorio is in this

  • Nice!

  • 29 people have voted thumbs down on this video, that means 29 people need to lighten up and learn how to have fun.

  • She did a current take on this song, and it was horrible. Morbid crappy, low tempo. This is a fun up-tempo tune. I admire her, but sometimes I thing she takes this dark, morbid shit to far. If your not going to do it the right way leave it alone.

  • Ms. Morissette if you're nasty!

  • =s

  • W T F?

  • aside from the cheesiness, this is a very well done pop song!

  • It's so weird seeing her like this.. lol

  • I don't like how she sings now I like her more better here in this video.I like the old Alanis better.She was AMAZING back in the 80's/90's.Only song I like of hers is Ironic.But anything else I don't like.She was way more better in this video.I don't know why she changed.

  • @SexyAngel79 To be true to herself and not the pop world? If you like dance music better kudos- But how you could lyrically, vocally or musically hold this simple dance track over a still simple but way more enlightened and lyrically charged song like u learn is beyond me. But to each their own of course. :)

  • @SexyAngel79 However if you're issue is that she isn't upbeat-you said you don't like her new music and then went on to refer to a track off of jagged little pill (which was 16 yrs ago.) Have you heard Giggling again for no reason? I have a feeling that may be more up your alley-she put that out in 2008.

  • Wow! The first person that I thought of immediately, when I saw this, was Paula Abdul. It's definitely the big hair and dance moves. However, I find this song very catchy and upbeat. I never would have thought of her as a pop starlet such as this, but she was equally good at singing this type of music as well. She is quite talented.

  • Ok how did this song NOT become super famous when she released it? I think this song could have potentially put her up there with Paula Abdul. It reminds me of "Straight Up" with a touch of "Opposites Attract" but with more attitude than both songs :)..

  • Alanis performed this for us Toronto fans a concert a few years back. She made a joke of it, but it sounded good. Don't be ashamed Alanis, you were 17 and brilliant! 

  • HAHAHAHAA LOL!

    (I'd do her anyway)

  • The 80's didn't come to canada 'till the early 90's eh???

    #1 in late 1991, kinda looks like a male version of this!!!

    dumb americans always thinking their better by responding in ignorance.

  • @Wolfgar2007

    Try looking up "marky mark good vibrations" that's exactly the same thing but american and was a #1 after this album got a Juno! eat your ignorance!

  • @Wolfgar2007 dumb non-americans thinking all americans are like that

  • This song is only matched in its inspirational message by Stan Bush's The Touch

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  • Wait a minute, isn't she the lady that made a song/video against Black Eyed Peas "My humps, my humps"? Isn't it ironic?! :-)

  • @omahonnelly yes

  • I like this song alot, it is one of my fav. And alanis is good looking too!

  • i remember the Newfoundland girls with big hair due to lots of hair spray singing along to this, ahahah

  • Like her better here.

  • From the standpoint of a US citizen living in the 21st century who's unfamiliar to pre-JLP Canadian Alanis, this comes off almost like a parody song. Right??? They really crammed almost every cliche from late 80s - early 90s pop into song & video (ie Paula Abdul / Janet Jackson / Kylie Minogue). Alanis' voice sounds great on this song actually. It's total pop fluff, but as someone who enjoys that, it's not necessarily a bad thing. :)

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  • Is this Robin Sparkles?

  • @YuJeong2005 Alanis Morissette

  • @YuJeong2005 i think they got the idea from this. lol

  • was this up against lets go to the mall?

  • This song was huge here in Canada. When she came out with Jagged Little Pill Canadians at first were 'You mean the "Too Hot" chick?" Lol. This has a great chorus.

  • Whoa, she was a pop retard.

  • Wow , this cookie-cutter BS music which gave Paula Adbul a run for her money, but a younger,hotter girl, she nevere really connec ted untilm5 years later

  • what the F...?!? lol forgot all about her past

  • it's horrible, kudos for Alanis for breaking the mold  and becoming the woman she is!

  • Yeah this isnt Alanis, she figured that out thankfully

  • fuck. i never thought that alanis was that... LOL!!! i mean is this for real?

  • Id love to sing this and dance to it lol :)

  • actually the drums and tempo are the same as well

  • some parts of this song remind me of Straight Up by Paula Abdul, not so much the song itself but the samples they used. Listen to the guitar slide thing at 3:08

  • @SpiceyGrooves I never thought of that LOL...u r right...this would make a great mashup with Straight Up....also if u listen to other songs on the early albums u will hear other similar things...like on Feel Your Love they say funky down, just as salt n pepa did with Shake Your Thing

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  • Robin Sparkles approves this video!

  • people wonder why she became a singer/songwriter like at this commerialized crap. Wow. i was her i would not be proud of this. yikes

  • I think I have become the whitest person ever.

  • she looks like paula abdul alittle in this 

  • Oh, my word...

    Well, this was unexpected. 

  • Ms Morissette if you're Nasty.

  • czy ktoś wiedział że Alanis umie tak tańczyć ?????

    Normalnie mnie zatkało !!!!!!

  • Alanis WYMIATA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • It's worrying to think that the Jagged Little Pill Alanis may have just been an act :S

  • @dallama182 Why would you think that? Because as a girl and young woman Alanis parents pushed her into the industry and when she could she got out forged into the artist she is today. I always say when people suggest this that had that been the case...that she put on an act to make money- then why didn't she continue in that vein? after jagged little pill she peaced out and pretty much stayed that way, She grew up and her music grew with her despite sells or fame.

  • @yancybutler Surely if it wasn't an act then her follow up work would have had the same style and not been mellowed out? My research shows that Alanis didn't write Jagged Little Pill by herself, she wrote it with top hit maker Glen Ballard.

    It seems suspicious that after her successful album, which she wrote with someone else, that she kinda changes her style when doing her own work. Yet you seem to disagree with the idea that it could have all been an act to make money?

  • @dallama182 Glen ballard co-wrote the music but had nothing to do with the Lyrics of Jagged little pill. The Lyrics For are the key point of that album and everything follow though the music mellowed out (Alanis at times even producing her own albums.) Her follow up also had ballard as co-writer-this is when her peace vibe transition started. That has stuck with her but again her music changes with her growth. Have you even heard anything by her in the last five years? Artist evolve.

  • @yancybutler You say evolve, I say change their sound to suit the market so they can make the most money possible from consumers.

    Doesn't the change in styles suggest this?

  • @dallama182 I would agree had the change been appealing to the masses and it wasn't the change was in favor of deeper more complex lyrics. Obviously you have you're opinion...I'm just not seeing it your way. Alanis wasn't like Britney spears or the other sex uped pop tarts and wasn't a media whore so I'm not sure what your issue really would be with her.

  • @yancybutler Personally, I would say that Jagged Little Pill perfectly appealed to the huge alternative/grunge scene in the States at the time of its release. And obviously it did, or it wouldn't have been so successful. I would say she was the Post-Cobain Britney Spears for the girls of that generation.

    The only issue I have is with the obvious change in style of music in videos like this to the work on JLP - it just doesn't seem genuine. Maybe I don't know the whole story, I dunno.

  • @dallama182 And I can totally see what you mean there. I'm 26 and I know what was big and in during those times. The Reason I think it was genuine is that her lyrics have stayed on the deeper end of the spectrum as opposed to most simple pop-despite the fact that it hurts sales (pseudo intellectual music doesn't really do well amongst the unthinking masses.). Alanis could have continued being angry which is what made her big. After that no one cared and she didn't seem to care about that.

  • @dallama182 I think the issue here is that you're strictly looking at this and her Jagged Little pill work despite her 15 Years of work after Jagged little pill. If you haven't heard Alanis in a while check out her newer work (Not as We, Tapes, The Guy who Leaves,Underneath, Orchid) or even an interview. She does address her pre pill work and doesn't try to hide it.

  • @dallama182 Why would you think that? Because as a girl and young woman Alanis parents pushed her into the industry and when she could she got out forged into the artist she is today. I always say when people suggest this that had that been the case...that she put on an act to make money- then why didn't she continue in that vein? after jagged little pill she peaced out and pretty much stayed that way, She grew up and her music grew with her despite sells or fame.

  • @ djaps really? She was 17. Don't you cringe at how *you* were at 17? Oh wait, you probably *are* 17. So, the you you are today will someday make you cringe. Fun thought, eh? And yes, I'm obsessed with my kitten.

  • @TheGrottoGirl Indeed... you said it rather eloquently. (EVERYONE was kind of silly at 17, and some remain silly in their horrible old age...)

  • She was very Janet-esque

  • this just shows you how fake she really is

  • @djaps pfft if there was a musician who was fake, alanis is not her

  • @djaps HOW!? Lady, signature voices are never faked... even at 17

  • it figures. 

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  • Don't care what they say abooot ya

  • Reminds me a little bit of Milli Vanilli...

  • @mandaladouble even mariha back in the day lol...............

  • Dear, Lord. Alanis was once a Paula Abdul / Janet Jackson wannabe? No wonder she's refused to allow any of her teen pop albums to be re-released. To quote her directly, "You live, you learn".

  • How old was she ? 16 or 17 ?

  • OH..... MY...... GODDDDDD!

  • ROBIN SPARKLE??

  • Hey, it's Alannah Miles.

  • thank you av club

  • Robin Sparkles!

  • Dave Collier from Full House is what happened. After he left her for another woman she dropped the Teeny-Bopper thing and released an album full of songs aimed at him (Jagged Little Pill)

  • You gotta go for gold!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Alanis was Britney Spears before Britney was ... thankfully she grew out of it.

  • this is a good song, so was her other songs later on in her career. she doesn't have to do the same style of music

  • she's so fucking hot in this video

  • omg, this is some robin sparkles shit

  • even when she acts as a pseudo-slut, she does it better than others.

  • I love how all the haters on here are like "So glad she left this genre", however, this shit comes on at a wedding or something, ya'll will be out on the dance floor moving your asses to it and having a blast.

  • what happeded to the jagged lil pills

  • i grew up listening to Alanis but not this music i was introduced to her with her jagged little pill album my mom loves her .... but this is really weird to see her singing pop lol

  • She looks like "Martika" in this video...

  • omg

  • I got snapped up in the same contract as Alanis by the same record company.

    I claimed bankruptcy at the age of 19 to get out of it.

    I'm so glad that I did.

  • 1:05 Don't care what they say abeutcha.

  • she traded in shampoo for her last name!

  • she traded in shampoo for her last name!

  • I just fapped to this

  • The 80's didn't come to canada 'till the early 90's

  • @wanderlust2008 There was this horrible store in all the malls called "Randy River" and I actually bought a stoned-washed outfit (jeans pants and jeans jacket) there... Hip-hop Alanis... isn't THAT ironic? :-)

  • @wanderlust2008 I don't think so! The ONLY thing Canada has been behind the "Nited states 'Merca" in, is economic collapse.... I think we ( CANADA) should raise the price of OUR oil ( yes 60% of your oil is purchased from CANADA) to $400.00 a barrell .... then MAYBE you will look at your past and learn NOT to disreguard it... `why is your Whit house where it is?

  • @wanderlust2008 not quite true....remember TU? Platinum Blonde? Gowan...The Arrows, I could go on...

  • @wanderlust2008

    Take a look at the video by Marky Marky doing the video "good vibrations" male version of this, just worse choreography, a lady who sings very well, marky wahlberg showing off his pecks and getting laid for the first time in his 20's.

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  • @wanderlust2008- NOT TRUE AT ALL! Canada isn't like the midwest you know. Canada went through the same style phases at the same time as America and Europe.. I have all the pictures to prove it and we all had MTV, I remember all the changes from 80s to 90s.. you should know the early part of a decade is quite similar to the late part of the last, like how the early 80s was similar to the late 70s.. remember Roxette-Joyride(1991) good example.. plus, the fashion is this video looks early 90s

  • @weirdscience85 you are right, a prominent fashion editor once said that a decade didn't become identifiable by style and design until midway through the decade, And if you look at it, conventional wisdom hold's true...the 60's identifiable as Hippie and Woodstock, that was 69', 70's with disco and Studio 54, that was the late 70's as well...the 80's didn't officially end until 1993 when Marc Jacobs while at Perry Ellis put 'grunge' and waifs on the runway...good point you made.

  • oh God that is weird..she doesn't even look like her..

  • Don't appreciate my country being called s dump thank you. Highly unecessary...

  • WTF

  • New Kids On The Rag

  • @madsketcher

    You actually said that. Very inventive. I will allow to misogeny on account that you are ribbing some awefully banal shit from the times. 

    Awesome.

  • Oh no! Wave 'em like you just don't care? It just gets better!

  • Oh Christ I can't stop laughing

  • I used to masturbate to this all the time. The VHS I taped this on was always sticky.

  • @dannyplouffe lol

  • like this alanis so much better then the new one..

  • Uhhhhhhhhhhh i loves this! 

  • y esa onda tan roquera en que año seria??me gusta mas adulta mas profunda

  • I remember her on 'You Can't Do That on Television' ('Alistair, why are you ripping up the carpet?') Most people who grew up in Canadump remember Alanis' 'hip-hop' phase, and EVERYONE knows about her second singing career....

  • the sox looovvee eemm\

  • good thing she change her style :D

  • Ha! The funny thing is, I like this WAY better than any song on Jagged Little Pill!

  • is that Tori from Saved by the Bell?

  • i never knew that she made songs like this :S

  • Ok Paula...

    thank God she went a different direction.

  • Sky Ferreira sent me here! :)

  • Imagine what we could have lost if she kept this style...

  • to be fair this wasnt her choice, the studio she signed with wanted to market her as a pop artist, nonetheless i love it:)

  • @prestonhyysteria Right, I'm sure Alanis was dying to make 'deep' folksy music in 90-91 when nobody was into it. Truth is she went with the trends. My only problem with it is that she tried to hide from these two albums because she knew it would hurt her Alternative Rock sales if people (Americans) knew she started as a Paula Abdul wanna-be. But she probably had no choice since most Alt Rock fans are/were anal like that.

  • @glamorous7169  Is there any way you can KEEP downloading without donating 20 buks

    ???

  • OMG... this was the year I was born. Giiirrrll

  • It's... good! O.O

  • Who would've thought that Alanis would sooner or later, after recording this song, that she would go from being a Canadian Dance-Pop version of Debbie Gibson and Tiffany to being an angry version of Sarah McLachlan in Alternative Rock Music that would change history for many female (or male) Singer/Songwriters with anger issues within themselves that they want to release through their mind, body, and soul. thank You, Alanis. Thank You for being influential and for Us not being full of silence :)

  • I guess in 1991 she was not yet full of angst!!

  • Oooh ... This could be messy ...

  • Paula Abdul :)

  • @urguelfa

    OMG u r so right

  • I just wanna pinch her cheekies! > Check out the song "Plastic" off this album...true Alanis form!

  • I just wanna pinch her cheekies! > Check out the song "Plastic" off this album...true Alanis form!

  • OMG... dis is 1st time i saw her in dance pop..looked like mariah wannabe wit all those revealing clothes and mekap..... thanks gud she moved to JLP....

  • my goshhhh! those hair rockkkk!

  • this is a pretty darned decent song, even by today's standards! She rocked the choreo :D

  • My main memory of this song is dancing in my driveway at night, and my best friend at the time fell and broke her foot. LOL We loved the song, and I still kinda like it. Hilarious.

  • omg alains morrisette..pretty then and now looks like she came out of a septic tank...oufff ...what when wrong???

  • Oh my god!! Is this actually the same Alanis Morissette from "Ironic" and "Head Over Feet" ?!

  • alanis never fails to impress me. ever.

  • Just shows us that she can.

  • I have this CD. Alanis needs to get out of her bad mood and release some more dance tunes like this.

  • I really wish she'd re-release this :(