Jagged Little POLL - Alanis Morissette

Yeah! Exactly that.

Hell, I'm totally checking that out ASAP!

“Not The Doctor” is my favorite, closely followed by “Head Over Feet” and “You Learn”

and the new documentary is pretty good

“not the doctor” and “mary jane” are the best deep cuts for me. “head over feet” the best single

thought the doc was pretty ok but could’ve been 30 minutes shorter

and i felt there was more focus on the phenomenon of the album than the album itself which i wanted more of the latter but this is why they don’t give me money to make documentaries

don't have a lot of interest in watching it tbh but still wanna know what made her disavow it and her own participation in it

I am semi-interested in the doc, but some details of her background sound, well, triggering. I was thinking of starting when she starts working with Ballard?

xpost brad i agree with that

i liked how much of her thoughts we get though, she’s great on camera. and i had no idea taylor hawkins had played on her tour.

I watched the 2021 Jagged doc last night (I had forgotten about it, then noticed it on Max). It's so bizarre to me how Alanis ended up disavowing it, saying it had a "salacious agenda" and "includes implications and facts that are simply not true." The film is essentially a hagiography, with nothing remotely critical or that makes her look bad in any way... and most of the "implications and facts" come from (or at least are framed by) her own long interview (which she vaguely walked back in her statement at the time, saying it had been conducted at "very vulnerable time (while in the midst of my third postpartum depression during lockdown)"). I'm at a complete loss to see what misgivings she had, after the fact, about what essentially feels like a glossy, "official" doc that could have been produced by her own camp. (Maybe she herself said something that wasn't true? Idk)

Anyway, I too wish it had focused a little more on the album itself; though it was cool that it talked as much as it did about her process making it w/Ballard. Some of the tour footage was pretty wild, with these stadiums full of intense fans... I guess I hadn't realized, at the time, just how big a "rock star" she was!