Next Whines - Alanis Morissette Lyrics Quiz

Answer: Oughta Know

This song comes from the 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill", and was the first track to be released as a single. This song gained Alanis worldwide fame, with it's angry lyrics, and became a break-up song for teenage girls all over the globe.

Recently, I found a video on the internet of some crazy girl miming and singing along to that. Slightly off-topic, but hey!

Answer: The course of a lifetime you'll never forget

This song comes from the 2004 album "So-Called Chaos". According to Alanis, it's lyrics came from the fact that there are so many "# Step Programs That Will Change [insert undesirable quality]" out there, she felt compelled to write a sarcastic version. In a song. And at 2:52 minutes long, it's one of her shortest songs yet.

Answer: If I was no longer queen

That was a tricky one. Alanis sings "That I would be [insert positive adjective] many times, with many different "if"s or "even"s. Congratulations to you if you got it.
This song comes from the 1998 album "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie", and was later a part of the "MTV Unplugged" album in 1999, and "The Collection" in 2005. One of the more memorable aspects of this song is the flute segment, played by Alanis herself.

Answer: Pretentious / Utterly

This song appears to be a collection of Alanis' neediest whines. It seems to reflect on some of the feelings and experiences she's had during her early celebrity years, and is quite a nice tune. Comes with incoherent screams at the end too.

Answer: Think?

This song is quite possibly the only thing of Alanis' still in circulation. It occasionally gets played on the music channels, which is more than can be said for most of her other videos. An interesting fact is that none of the situations described are truly ironic, but Alanis counteracts this with a story: While in a bookshop one day, a woman asked her if the song was ironic because none of the lyrics were. So nyeah!

Answer: I am the harm that you inflict

Alanis is no stranger to film soundtracks, having made contributions to the films "Dogma" (in which she played God), "City of Angels", "De-Lovely", and "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe".

Answer: Toilets

Most people remember this song from "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" for it's video, in which Alanis went through a city completely naked. It eventually became one of Alanis' best-selling singles, reaching #1 in the United States charts and #5 in the United Kingdom. It was also nominated for the "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" at the 1999 Grammy awards.

Some people also remember it for the fact that when Alanis sings "Thank you, thank you silence" in the last line of the chorus, it sounds as if she is thanking "toilets".

Answer: To watch the stoic squirm

This song was Alanis' contribution to the "City of Angels" soundtrack, and won her two Grammy awards in 1999: "Best Rock Song" and "Best Female Rock Vocal Performance".

Answer: You Learn

Naming albums after a lyric on one of its tracks became a trend with Alanis, which was only broken when she named "So-Called Chaos" after its sixth track. "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" was a line in "So Pure", "Under Rug Swept" was part of the bridge on "Hands Clean", and "Feast On Scraps" was featured in a lyric from "Bent For You".

Answer: Scarcity still fuelling

This lyric was part of the track "Sister Blister". The song could easiy be deemed one of Alanis Morissette's most illegible productions, with lyrics that can rarely be understood as they're sung. Still, it was a rocky, up-tempo song, reminiscent of the "Jagged Little Pill" era, that many fans have liked.

Answer: What I resist you love, no matter how low or high I go

"Everything" was the first single to be released from "So-Called Chaos" and didn't do too badly in the charts. The video saw Alanis getting her hair cut off, making paper aeroplanes, playing guitar, all while walking down a highway. In one section of the video, Alanis jumps on the back of some guy who is presumably her boyfriend. It turns out that the guy was SUPPOSED to be her partner Ryan Reynolds, but he couldn't make it. So he sent his best friend instead.
Wonder if he'll do that at their wedding...

Answer: Listen to a Björk album

This song was released as a single and featured on "Jagged Little Pill". This video had Alanis backflipping in a green jumper and having a food fight. Fun!

Answer: It's all your fault

Those two lines came from the chorus of the song "Head Over Feet", from "Jagged Little Pill". Another single from the album, the video featured deliberatley awful lip synching and was filmed in the dark at her home.

Answer: Hailing a taxi cab

Alanis does many things with one hand in her pocket.
This song became a "Jagged Little Pill" single and was one of the most successful. In the black and white video, she drove a car as part of a parade. She later claimed that this was because she wanted other people to be in the limelight.

Answer: Hungarian

A rarity that became a part of her greatest hits album, "The Collection", in 2005. She also lent her vocals to another few song songs on the "Prayer Cycle" album, and sung in French at one point.

Well, that's the end. Thanks for playing, and thanks to Flynn_17 for continually pushing me, over and over, to do this quiz. He helped with the intro and a few questions too.

Seeing as I put so much hard work into this, you should probably give me a decent rating...