Alanis Morissette
Jagged Little Pill
Were there any albums that came out in the ’90s that weren't Jagged Little Pill? There were? Color me surprised. Not only was this one of the pinnacles of awesome alternative rock by equally awesome women, this record taught all of us faggots how to be angry girls. Cheating boyfriends, beware. —Mark Dommu
Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album by Canadian recording artist and songwriter Alanis Morissette and her first album released internationally. Her first studio album after a three year hiatus following her break with MCA Records, it became a commercial and critical success, selling over 33 million copies worldwide. Co-written with the album's producer, Glen Ballard, who introduced a pop sensibility to Morissette's bitter angst, Jagged Little Pill produced six singles, including the Grammy nominated "Ironic".
Morissette started recording the album after moving to Toronto, Canada until she traveled to Los Angeles where she met Glen Ballard, who was the only producer for the album. The album had charting success worldwide, peaking at number one in her native Canada for 24 weeks (three weeks in late 1995, an unbroken 19-week run in 1996 and two separate weeks later in the year) as well as reaching number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, staying there for twelve non-consecutive weeks. By 2009, the album had sold over 33 million units/copies worldwide, topping the charts in ten countries, including the UK, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Finland and the Netherlands and even ranking on the top 100 on many countries' best selling of all time lists. Billboard further ranked the album as the number one Best Selling album of 1990s.
During the last three years of the 1990s, the album was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. Morissette won five awards. In 1996, she won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making her the youngest artist in history to win the title at age 21, a record she held for fourteen years until Taylor Swift won album of the year at age 20 for her album Fearless. She also won Best Rock Album. Her single "You Oughta Know" won two Grammys, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance & Best Rock Song; the same song was also nominated for Song of the Year. The same year, Morissette was nominated Best New Artist.
Jagged Little Pill received general acclaim from music critics, with many praising the album's talent and lyrical content. The album received many accolades. In October 2002, Rolling Stone ranked it number 31 on its Women In Rock - The 50 Essential Albums list, and in 2003 the magazine ranked it number 327 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album also holds a title in The Definitive 200 Albums list, in which it is placed at number 26. The album ranked at #50 on Rolling Stone's list of Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2012.
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