Dennys Ilicĭuring her opening set with Garbage, frontwoman Shirley Manson went off on the crowd when someone in the pit started tossing a beach ball around, calling the display “disappointing and, quite frankly, pathetic.” “This is enough already,” she added.
In the final pre-chorus of “You Learn,” Morissette acknowledged her trio of kids with a knowing smile, swapping the original line “The way a 3-year-old would do” for “Like a 10-year-old, and a 5-year-old, and a 2-year-old would do.” She also gave a cheeky update to “Ironic” by changing “It’s like meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife” to “meeting his beautiful husband,” with the big screens focusing on a gay couple kissing in the crowd to rapturous cheers.Īlanis Morissette performs at the Hollywood Bowl for the Jagged Little Pill 25th Anniversary Tour on Wednesday, Oct. The way her intonation cut through the Bowl crowd singing along to every word and how she held on to notes for an impossibly long time (especially on the seething JLP standout “Wake Up”) was, honestly, extraordinary.
tour stop, where she was joined by Garbage and Cat Power as openers and a crowd full of fans who have made Jagged Little Pill their own over the past 25 years.Ĭapturing the powerful wails and crystal-clear yodels that she recorded more than a quarter-century ago might seem like a tall order, but Morissette far exceeded expectations when it came to her live vocals. 1…īelow, find some of the best full-circle moments from Morissette’s final U.S. Rewinding The Charts: In 1995, We Got to 'Know' Alanis Morissette, As She Scored Her First No. It’s all at once intimately personal and surprisingly universal. Jagged Little Pill still represents 2021 Alanis, just as the ripped-from-her-diary songs somehow managed to encapsulate the complicated and complex worlds of a lot of women back in 1995 through today. This time, instead of a 21-year-old raging against her shady ex with wild hair shrouding her face in the blurry, desert-set “You Oughta Know” music video, we saw a 47-year-old thrashing her now-blonde (but just as wild) locks and delivering just as much of the song’s trademark vitriol even though she’s now a happily married mom of three. date of the Jagged Little Pill 25th Anniversary Tour on Wednesday night at the Hollywood Bowl, the second of two nights at the venue. 1 on the Billboard 200 and made her the youngest artist to that point to win a Grammy for album of the year - back to life for the final U.S.
Which is why it was such a beautiful, full-circle moment to see Morissette bring her breakthrough album - which spent 12 weeks at No.