Hyperfixation Friday: Losing the Plot
in which I am haunted by a song by Alanis Morissette
Happy Friday, campers! It is time for another installment of Hyperfixation Friday, where I talk about a thing I’m currently obsessing over. This week it’s music (I am sure this will be the case a lot).
Alanis Morissette’s music has been in my life for a long time. Jagged Little Pill was released not long before I started high school, and I listened to it every single morning of freshman year. It is legendary for reasons! In 1999, she released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, which is one of my favorite albums by anyone ever. I also really liked Under Rug Swept, which came out in 2002.
Unlike other musical artists I obsess over, I honestly did not know much about Alanis’ personal life, except the thing we all wish we could unknow; that the man in “You Oughta Know” was Uncle Joey from Full House. I have been trying to brain bleach the idea of him getting a BJ in a movie theater ever since.
I also know that she was engaged to Ryan Reynolds once and is now married to a white rapper named Souleye, and had some kids. She also did a completely bizarre cover of “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas, which was a Thing That Happened:
She kept making records, and I always checked them out. I would listen to them once or twice and then sort of forget about them. It wasn’t that I thought her music was bad or anything, more that I didn’t find myself connecting with it. Sometimes an artist is in your life only for a time and then you find yourself in a different place. And that is okay!