Nr. 20 – Alanis Morissette

I had almost forgotten how much I like Alanis Morissette. Since I was 11 years old she has been one of the most played artists on my stereo. Her music was such a huge part of my teen years I sometimes think I would have grown apart from it but I never do. Thank You is still one of my favourite songs of all time. Growing up I admired her a lot for her natural appearance. She’s not known to be very fashionable, she often wore t-shirts on her concerts, she kept her hair long no mater what trends came and went through the years and she never had a glamorous and gracious way of moving on stage. With all this said I love her having the humour and self distance enough to do a cover of Black Eyed Peas’ My Humps. Why is she cool? She is cool for all the reasons I wrote above, plus she’s a really good song writer. If you haven’t listened to her lyrics’ that much (except for the classics Hand in My Pocket or Ironic), I recommend That Particular Time, These Are the Thoughts (where she plays with the classical form of writing song lyrics, letting sentences overlap through the melody) and Front Row (where she ends a verse in the middle of a sentence and takes it up again after the chorus).