Alanis Morissette looks back on the phenomenal success of her 1995 album Jagged Little Pill in a new interview conducted for the 'Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso' podcast, and reflects upon the fact that some of the harshest criticism she received at the time came from trail-blazing female artists and music writers who she admired.
"I think I had these fantasies that I would be snuggling up with Annie Lennox, and Joni [Mitchell] would be massaging my feet," the 52-year-old Canadian singer/songwriter jokes. "I just had these fantasies of what it could be like... and it wasn't."
Introduced by lacerating lead single You Oughta Know, an unforgettable takedown of a toxic ex-boyfriend, Jagged Little Pill, Morissette's third album, won five Grammy Awards and has sold north of 33 million copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest-selling albums ever. But the phenomenal success of the record was accompanied by some scathing criticism, with some of the harshest critiques, as Morissette acknowledges, delivered by women she respected, Tori Amos, Sinead O'Connor and Joni Mitchell among them.
