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“I didn’t even want it on the album. I remember a lot of people going, ‘Please please, please’. So I said, ‘OK…’”: How Alanis Morissette created her biggest hit

Alanis Morissette.

It’s 30 years since the album Jagged Little Pill seared itself into the public consciousness and turned its creator Alanis Morissette into a household name.

This was the third studio album from Canadian-born Morissette, but it’s perceived by some as her debut as it was the first to be released internationally and it marked a major stylistic shift, from the dance pop strains of her first two releases Alanis (1991) and Now Is The Time (1992) to a hefty, hook-laden alt-rock sound.

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