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I’ve heard this song a thousand times growing up and never actually listened to the words. Wild. Good stuff.
Important note: she's singing to Dave Coulier, Uncle Joey from Full house, who used Alanis to cheat on his wife.
That is some VERY juice background info. Thank you hahaha
Alanis was also only like 18 or 19 at the time and he was at least 10 years older.
I mean, he still is at least 10 years older.
at least
Cut. It. Out.
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Sometimes I wonder how many millennials have attachment disorders simply because we grew up with this song being pretty much inescapable for almost a decade.
Like, yeah, she’s talented but has anyone ever studied what it does to a young mind when you grow up in a culture that blasts its relationship drama in song format 24/7 everywhere from the car radio to the supermarket, followed by The Offspring’s The Kids Aren’t Alright and Linkin Park’s Crawling?
In chronological order, it reads like a descent into madness if you ask me.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say none. Being abandoned by my parents gave me attachment issues, this is just a song.
Being abandoned into a world that processes its relationship drama for profit by playing it 24/7 in all public areas
People outside the anglosphere were/are being blasted with American pop music just the same, with only a fraction of them understanding anything beyond the hook of any song. And those are simarly fucked up, so my guess is the effect is zero.