On one hand, it could just be a less energetic sequel to "You Oughta Know," where the vocalist badmouths a man who sees her as an easy hookup, or maybe the worker that ignored her questions. "Right Through You" is another song that we struggle to rank because, again, so much depends on what Morissette tells us. Although there are certainly no complaints to be made about the songwriting, the vocalist is telling the subject what's wrong with him about as straight-faced as she can, and that means she doesn't need to rely on the emotional bursts that make her best hooks superb.
Morissette wants to be your significant other, not your drug-of-choice. Strong enough to merit forgiveness for a vocabulary snafu. Morissette's voice, love it or hate it, makes this album with epic hooks and "Ironic" features one of the strongest of the bunch. Does that mean we dislike the song as a whole? No way. Does the songwriting lose points with us because of that? Yes. Alas, genius as that would be, the vocalist has since denied that theory, simply stating that she wasn't too concerned about Webster's accuracy.
After all, some have posited the idea that "Ironic" was actually a joke with multiple layers.that Morissette intentionally mangled the use of "irony" as itself an ironic act. We don't need to explain the controversy that's surrounded this song for years.although we kind of did two entries ago. As it doesn't, the song takes on a rather clichéd vibe, as we've seen dozens of movies that carry this same plot line. If so, this song might be more touching, more revelatory. Looking at a track like this, context is everything: Did Morissette herself struggle with living up to parental standards, like Michael to Joe Jackson? It doesn't seem like it, no. "Perfect" tells the tale of children (there are both male and female protagonists.the only occasion on the album) who struggle to "earn" their parents' love by excelling in their respective endeavors. Although the track ultimately plays into the star's take-control-of-your-life approach to the rest of the record, it simply doesn't pack the punch that the rest of these songs hold. That makes it more ironic still that the song "Wake Up," which never claimed to have a grammatical theme, succeeds in irony where "Ironic" never could: "You like snow but only if it's warm / You like rain but only if it's dry" are the opening bars of the album-closing track. One of the more ironic things about Morissette's career (that many have pointed out over the years) is that her hit "Ironic" doesn't really live up to the definition of the word. It's also one of only three tracks where the protagonist/victim simply takes life for what it is, instead of speaking up for themselves. "Mary Jane," interestingly, doesn't happen to be a marijuana reference at all, but rather a theoretical (hopefully) character suffering from the expectations of society ("I hear you're losing weight again Mary Jane / Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?). "Mary Jane" might be the only track to qualify as a ballad.reminding us why we prefer Morissette in our face. There's not much to be said for ballads on Jagged Little Pill, although there is much to be said in the shifting attitudes of its star across its 12 tracks. Hang with Music Times as we count down the tracks on Jagged Little Pill from least favorite to vice versa. Although the vocalist is a rather polite human being, many saw her as an angry performer, sick of sugar-coated lyrics and sugar-coated music in the pop world and-regardless of how true that may or may not be-we're not complaining. Five singles and 33 million copies sold later and Morissette was known the world over, somewhat ironically (coincidentally) as the voice behind '90s movements such as Lilith Fair (a female-fronted music festival founded by fellow Canadian Sarah McLachlan). When the vocalist reared up and roared into the first hook of first single "You Oughta Know," the world took heed. Alanis Morissette didn't release her debut album in 1995 but she may as well have: Jagged Little Pill took the teen pop star who had released two questionable previous records and tore them into jagged little pieces.