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Alanis Morissette Reflects On “You Oughtta Know” 25 Years Later · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It was twenty five
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  Speaker 1: years ago that Atlantis Moore Set released her defiant and
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  Speaker 1: culture shifting album Jagged Little Pill, a project that literally
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  Speaker 1: changed the face of pop music, especially sung by a
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  Speaker 1: female artist, and you ought to know, one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest hits ever. It was an anthem, It was raw,
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  Speaker 1: it was powerful, it was something unique, something different, coming
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  Speaker 1: from a woman in pop music. Not many people did
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  Speaker 1: that before Atlantis Moore Set. She's reflected on its release
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  Speaker 1: and an essay for The Hollywood Reporter where she writes,
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  Speaker 1: in part, if some people were afraid of their own anger.
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  Speaker 1: There I was on stage emoting mind and having no
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  Speaker 1: apologies about it. Anger is so empowering for me. I
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  Speaker 1: was giving myself permission to not redirect physical anger, depression
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  Speaker 1: and sadness that were told not to feel, especially women.
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  Speaker 1: But we're built to feel them, so you either implode
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  Speaker 1: or explode. When I write songs there for me, when
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  Speaker 1: I share them, it's an offering the words of Atlantis
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  Speaker 1: Moore Set. The brand new musical Jagged Little Pill, based
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  Speaker 1: around the music of the album and written my Oscar
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  Speaker 1: winning scribe Diablo Cody, is on Broadway now direct from
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  Speaker 1: only writed