About the artist
Alanis Morissette is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter born in Ottawa, Canada, who first found local fame as a teenage dance-pop artist before reinventing herself as one of the defining voices of 1990s alternative rock. Her breakthrough came with the 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, produced with Glen Ballard, whose raw, confessional lyrics and abrasive vocal delivery on songs like «You Oughta Know» and «Ironic» broke sharply from the polished pop of her earlier work and resonated with a generation of listeners.
Musically, Morissette blends alternative rock with pop hooks and occasional electronic textures, favoring lyrics that explore anger, vulnerability, spirituality, and self-discovery with unusual directness. Tracks such as «Hand In My Pocket», «You Learn», «Head Over Feet», and «Uninvited» showcase her range from anthemic catharsis to introspective balladry, and her songwriting helped open space for a more emotionally unfiltered style of mainstream female singer-songwriting.
Beyond Jagged Little Pill, she has continued releasing albums across subsequent decades, maintaining a career built on candid lyricism and a distinctive, elastic vocal style. Her influence is frequently cited by later generations of pop and rock songwriters who credit her with normalizing raw emotional honesty in commercial music.
Popular tracks
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Ironic
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Hand In My Pocket
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You Oughta Know
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Thank U
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You Learn
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Uninvited
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Head Over Feet
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All I Really Want
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Ablaze
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Hands Clean
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Reasons I Drink
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Forgiven
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Right Through You
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Perfect
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Smiling
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Mary Jane
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Not the Doctor
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Everything
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Torch
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Your House
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That I Would Be Good
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Wake Up
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Unsent
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Flinch
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21 Things I Want in a Lover
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Front Row
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Joining You
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Diagnosis
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Guardian
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Reckoning
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Baba
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Not as We
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Her
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Ironic (Alanis Update’s Lyrics)
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Discography
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (Thank U Edition)
2024
Last Christmas - EP
2023
the storm before the calm
2022
Such Pretty Forks in the Mix
2020
Such Pretty Forks in the Road
2020
Jagged Little Pill (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
2020
The Demos: 1994-1998
2016
Jagged Little Pill (Spotify Landmark Edition)
2015
Jagged Little Pill (Deluxe Edition)
2015
Big Sur - Single
2014
Underneath (Remixes)
2013
Underneath (Remixes) - EP
2013
Receive - Single
2013
havoc and bright lights
2012
havoc and bright lights (deluxe edition)
2012
Guardian - EP
2012
Not As We - Single
2008
In Praise of the Vulnerable Man - Single
2008
Flavors of Entanglement (Deluxe Edition)
2008
Flavors of Entanglement
2008
Underneath - Single
2008
Crazy (Remixes)
2005
The Collection
2005
Jagged Little Pill Acoustic
2005
Crazy - Single
2005
Eight Easy Steps (Remixes)
2004
Eight Easy Steps - Single
2004
Out Is Through - Single 2
2004
Out Is Through - Single
2004
iTunes Originals: Alanis Morissette
2004
Everything - Single 2
2004
Everything - Single
2004
So-Called Chaos
2004
Feast on Scraps
2002
Precious Illusions - Single 2
2002
Precious Illusions - Single
2002
Under Rug Swept
2002
Hands Clean - Single 2
2002
Hands Clean - Single
2002
That I Would Be Good - Single 2
1999
That I Would Be Good - Single
1999
That I Would Be Good (MTV Unplugged) - Single
1999
King of Pain (MTV Unplugged) - Single
1999
You Learn (MTV Unplugged) - Single
1999
MTV Unplugged
1999
Unsent - Single
1999
So Pure - Single 3
1999
So Pure - Single 2
1999
So Pure - Single
1999
Joining You - Single 2
1999
Joining You - Single
1999
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
1998
Thank U - Single
1998
Head Over Feet - Single 2
1996
Head Over Feet - Single
1996
Ironic - Single 3
1996
Ironic - Single 2
1996
Ironic - Single
1996
All I Really Want - Single
1996
You Learn - Single 3
1995
You Learn - Single 2
1995
You Learn - Single
1995
Jagged Little Pill
1995
You Oughta Know - Single 2
1995
You Oughta Know - Single
1995
Hand In My Pocket - Single 3
1995
Hand In My Pocket - Single 2
1995
Hand In My Pocket - Single
1995
Now Is the Time
1992
Alanis
1991
Fate Stay With Me - Single
1987
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