Alanis Morissette

I finally got to see Alanis Morissette perform live.

I don’t consider myself as a music oriented person. For one, I can’t carry a tune to save my life and also, I never really carried on with playing musical instruments. However what I look for the in a song are the lyrics, the meaning, interpretation and what have you.

Over the years, Alanis Morissette provided the above said things and that is why I’ve been such a huge fan for a long time.

I remember her debut album Jagged Little Pill came out in 1995… I was seven years old. Obviously I was too young to understand the lyrics. But one song that always makes me reminisce is ‘Ironic’. Personally, it didn’t mean anything to me when I was younger; I just liked listening to it.



A few years later, my brother met a girl (whom he is happily married to now) who was a hardcore Alanis fan. My brother bought his then girlfriend Alanis MTV Unplugged CD and we would listen to the songs over and over again. From then on, I was hooked. I was old enough to understand the lyrics, apply it to my life and make my own interpretations.

I don’t think of Alanis as a singer but a storyteller or a poet. Her use of words doesn’t seem to fail in conveying things. She is known for not censoring things, she tells what she feels. On the same note, she does not reveal the identities of the people she mentions on her songs which show great professionalism. On some level, even though they’ve hurt her, she still respects them. In one of the interviews I’ve watched, she mentioned that she doesn’t write songs to hurt, punish or throw revenge to that individual. She writes those songs simply to express her emotions.

During my teenage years, I resorted to her music whenever I felt an emotion too strong for me to express. Thus, I “expressed” them by listening to her music on full blast.

After seeing her on concert last Wednesday, Nov. 5, I suddenly got interested about her life. Surely, she experienced struggles that would become the music that she shares with the world. Last night, I spent almost 3 hours searching for videos, concerts, interviews, documentaries and anything to do with her life. And today pretty much consisted of watching videos of her.



Although I would never want to experience the struggles she’s been through in the past, I want to be the aftermath of her-- surpassing those struggles. She’s a strong woman who expresses herself well and does not hide. Very professional, humorous, and a hint of mystery are within her.

Thank you for an amazing concert!