I've been an alcoholic since 2008, until 2012. Alcohol is useless. You cannot sleep? You drink and you sleep, but you'll be tired. You don't like or you can't stand your life? Alcohol won't solve this.
Being 40 is not old! I still listen to young artists, but it's only to remind me it's still a savage,ungrateful world. Love still concur all. Greed was humanity's death discovery. So love all.
Say it louder for the people in the back. I’m glad someone else thinks that. We were all so full of life and hope in the 90’s and now we’re in our 40’s and adulthood can make you just want to drink and eat
Lolita Pravedoni Iwancew happy birthday!! Enjoy your 30’s! I had a family in my 30’s and it shifted my friendships a lot. So 30’s were way different than 20’s (for me) make sure that if your relationships change, let it be in a good way and if someone is no longer good for you, let them on their way. I know you didn’t ask but I hope it’s helpful. Have fun!
@White Lotus I ended up adopting a little one eye pup who was a lot worse off than I was doing.. I focused all my energy in fixing that little guy. He saved my life.
Her shrugging off the priests hand when he tries to touch her shoulder has so so much symbolism… the entire video does. Such a deep song. Alanis Morissette always was and still is so unique and iconic! What a voice.
That was absolute disgust coming from Alanis when the Pig,I mean Priest touched her. And yes, I’m Catholic. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what “The Church” did over all these years.
My mother left the Catholic Church exactly because of that yet I went to the same private catholic school she did yet I wasn’t as beautiful as she was nor as powerful so no one messed with me I guess 🤷🏽♀️ but none of my kiddos are religious and actually preach against it! We just wish good unto others and live a life of passion and goodness!
6 Million veiws is soooooo much dude! People just severely lost there understanding of numbers! 6 million x 4min = 6666h non stop. This video played over 2 Years non stop pure Alanis ;) Edit: It has more play time than it is old!
7 months and 22 days clean and sober and it was this song when it was released that started my journey of open-mindedness, I've been to rehab, I've got a sponsor, I work a program now, I'm so grateful for your music alanis thankyou
I’m pretty sure Alanis will be just as proud of you as the rest of the world that have read your comment. You are strong & brave & never forget that. We all wish you love, peace & strength on your journey of life xxx
"Jagged Little Pill" got you through Middle school? "Alanis" and "Now Is the Time" albums got me through Early high school before grunge took over. "Jagged Little Pill" got me over the 18 hill into adulthood.
Wait, soooo, was she just wasted in the ironic video, seeing a bunch of hallucinations of herself, and after her car died and she pulled off the road, she was immediately arrested for impaired driving and this AA or NA meeting is part of her sentence? And of course, it makes sense the “You outta know” Alanis is there too, she must have finally been identified as the person caught on camera blowing a dude infront of a packed theatre full of families watching the Lion King!! Ohh nooo 😮
Ahh, Arrested for impaired driving and driving off the road, when cops arrived on the scene she was talking to three other hallucinations of herself. Actually, I think the Alanis with the white shirt is supposed to be the “you outta know” Alanis? I think the scenes where she’s playing with the band, not the walking around by herself parts
Please never stop. You are the rhythm my mother lived by. You expressed what she needed through a divorce/domestic violence and finally cancer. She played your songs with me in her last days. I wish this came out before she passed. Please never stop.
SUBZEROUK yes she is. I teach 10th and 11th grade physics in NYC and all of these students play “ironic” and “hand in my pocket”. And “You Oughta Know”. You are just saying that because maybe you don’t find alanis still relevant. But her songs are always relatable though the decades. Girls are angsty, You just don’t know how “You Oughta Know” speaks to them.
@SUBZEROUK She could be relevant if she made sound bites for Tik Tok. Then the youth of today would flock to find out about her music...lol That being said I know so many youths of today being raised by us '90s kids who were raised on classic rock/County...ect music by our parents thus appreciates past music.
Alanis held our hands through our 20s and now she's finally back to help us process the crisis of our 30s. I got so happy when I saw the Ironic outfit.
My name is Daliah and I'm an alcoholic addict Currently in a relapse about getting back to being sober. I was clean for 10 years before I had a relapse. I did it before and I can do it again. To the addict still suffering.... What we can't do alone we can all do together. 💜🙏🙌
So big. Recognizing parts of herself in the addict's around her. She was under enormous pressure from a very young age. It's amazing that she's here, committed to her craft and her family, and still baring her soul for us. Jagged Little Pill saved my life when my mom died in '96, when I was 18. Alanis will always, always have a home in my heart for that
Alanis' music helped me thru rough patches from 19-25 mainly...funny how singers remain special during hardships...glad she helped u thru your mum's death..young age to lose her
Bro this song makes me cry but this comment section??? Everyone sharing their sobriety journey I am SO PROUD of you!!! I’ve lost too many friends to substance abuse and the world needs you!! Don’t mind me I’m just crying happy tears that this song helped others like it helps me every time I’m tempted to go back.
i feel ya as someone who lost my best friend to substance abuse seeing so many addicts inspired by Alanis's bravery is uplifting. I got another friend battling it now and repeesentation has allowed better therapy options to exist now then what used to be just AA (Which dont work on athiests likeu friends whom don't believe in higher powers lol)
It's like the heroines of Ironic meeting each other after 25 years, telling each other what was their life through these decades. Welcome back, Mrs Morisette!
I'm named after Alanis Morrisette. And i'm very proud of that. She's so brave to put herself on a plate and say this is who i am you can like me or you can hate me either's fine but i'm still me regardless. I'm now clean and sober. 1 year and 4 months clean from Cocaine. 4 months clean from self harm. 3 months sober. 2 months clean from purging. Very proud. It really is one day at a time. I use my addictions to escape the world. To escape reality. To feel happy i used coke. To feel release from the pressure of everything weighing me down i cut. To escape reality i drink. To feel control i throw up. But i'm learning that i can be happy without coke. That i can find ways of release that don't hurt me. There's ways i can get release without having to escape from the fact that that's one of my coping mechanisms. I can have ways of escapism that are productive and helpful. And i can build a life that i don't need to escape from. And that throwing up happens because i can't control it and i can have more control by not doing it. There's a lot i'm able to control and when i control my food and eating i lose control in so many aspects. I'm very excited about the life i'm building. One where addictions aren't something that control my life. I've had to draw the line at any use of these substances or methods because for me there isn't a line after that, i'll just keep doing it. I can't have one drink, i can either have no drinks or as many as possible until i'm unconscious. Thank you so much other Alanis for giving us this part of you.
Proud... music has many healing attributes. Keep on the positive. I was in a dark place once.. actually around the same time of "jagged little pill" came a band called (Jars of clay) with songs like "worlds apart" and "love song for a savior" which pulled me through many a time... I pray you find peace like that!💖
While she’s clearly a gifted artist, this work continues to verify her stability as a person. Always her true self, no pretense or scrambling to “re-invention”. What an amazing testament to her as an individual, all art aside. Bravo!
You've grown, healed and evolved so much but you're still so brutally honest and raw about things that matter and life as a human. I'm so grateful to you Alanis. Thank you for staying true to yourself, your sound and your artform. This song is so upbeat but so deep at the same time and the video totally takes it to another level. I'm so so excited for this next album. Its so rare for a longtime artist to maintain their sound and authenticity after healing and coming out the other side of trauma, but you've done it! And i LOVE IT!
“I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit” I’ve been sober for six months now and this is a brilliant song. It describes exactly how for me drinking is a way to hide/run away from stress and trauma. I also love how she sees herself in everyone in the circle. Addicts and alcoholics may have different stories, but the core feelings are usually the same.
Congrats on 6 months James! I happened to stumble upon this video and something told me that I needed to watch. Im just starting out on my road to recovery, and going to go to my first NA meeting next week. I've known I needed to do this for quite some time and have been self-medicating to control when I can wake up and when I can go to sleep, so hopefully again take this video as a sign that I need to finally follow through and go to a meeting
Kristen Annear wow that is a HUGE step! It’s never easy to admit defeat, but ultimately recovery is a very rewarding journey. I’ve been in and out of sobriety for five years now, so no matter what don’t lose hope and take it easy on yourself. All that matters is today. :)
Congratulations my friend 👍I'm 6 months of buprenorphine.. Life's finally started falling in place.. I wish you all the luck and hope in your journey 👍
Keep moving forward on your journey, my friends! Life can get so much better! I spent 10 years as an addict before climbing out. I'm about to reach my 11 yr milestone and it honestly feels like a completely different life time at this point... There is a light at the end of the tunnel. If you fuck up - just try again. Don't be too hard on yourself 💜🖤💜
I think each persona calls back to a significant moment in her life. The 'Ironic" outfit, like you've pointed out. I think the dressed up in white shirt is from the "You Oughta Know" video, when she first hit it big, which is why that persona is interviewed and signs autographs. Trying to figure out the mom in the robe look.
These are the reasons I drink The reasons I tell everybody I'm fine even though I am not These are the reasons I overdo it I have been working since I can remember, since I was single digits Now, even though I've been busted I don't know where to draw the line 'cause that groove has gotten so deep And nothing can give reprieve like they do Nothing can give a break for this soldier like they do Here we are I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong One more hit It feels so helpful in my need for respite And here are the reasons I eat Reasons I feel everything so deeply when I'm not medicated And so that's it, I am buying a Lamborghini To make up for these habits, to survive this sick industry Nothing can give reprieve like they do Nothing can give me a break from this torture like they do Here we are I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong One more sip It feels so helpful in my need for some long overdue respite And these are the reasons I don't even think I would quit And these are the reasons I can't even see straight And these are the ones whom I know it so deeply affects And I am left wondering how I would I function without it Here we are I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong One more rip I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit
To 1 Sarah from another Sarah, keep up the great work. 5/10/20 was my 16th anniversary !! But all that counts is today. Keep up the great, but hard work !!✌❤
Jeez Alanis , that is a brutal and beautiful video, but the song is more direct !! I love you Alanis ,I will try to drink less, Thank U. From Scotland , Remember us ?
For some reason when this song came out, I dismissed it. I guess I just wasn't in an Alanis mood. I like to think Alanis is "mood food" but really it's just so emotionally weighty that sometimes you can't face her raw lyrics. I'm so glad I found this song
"Morissette also struggled with eating disorders as a young adult, something she has compared to the struggle of someone addicted to alcohol or drugs. "The big question for me around eating-disorder recovery is, 'What is sobriety with food?'" Morissette told Women's Health. "We know with alcohol, you just don't drink it and don't go to a bar. With heroin, you just don't go near it. Whereas with food, you have to eat, so how can one go from, in my case, bingeing and purging, starving, overeating, the scale going up and down - how can I go from that to a 'sober' approach?" (from The List)
Wow never really compared the struggles. I guess it’s realizing you want to live. Food is essential to our human body survival. It can not function without it. You do not have to be consumed by food but you have to consume it to stay alive. Find a balance between what you need and what you want. I’m in no way a professional, and if you feel you need professional help please seek it! I’m just me, who’s been there, and is here now.
Im sure her therapist helped her through that. Food addiction is very real and it goes with the addictions of drugs, alcohol, sex, and gambling. Probably even more but those come to the top of my list.
I think this is a powerful conversation. Alcohol or drugs are harmless if left alone. Food is needed, but in reverse, the neglect of eating causes harm. It's about why we use substances or neglect food. Either way, we are numbing our pain and that looks different to many people. There is a lot of intersectionality to this song which is very powerful.
@@crystallitchfield4639 Must be rough, another poor millionaire with a problem. Do you share that same concern with the homeless as you walk down the street?? or do you need a music video to peak your righteous concern for humanity.
So caught up in helping others that you almost aren't even allowed to face your own demons or cry out for help so instead you turn to vices. That's the message I get from this video and good god it hits home. I imagine this is the four Alanises from the Ironic video, who at the time represented the fun, youthful, and daring sides of a girl trying to navigate the world, but have now morphed into the person she has become: the stressed out mother, the nostalgic woman wanting to cling to her past/youth (dressed as the driver from Ironic), and the dolled up celebrity who can't get a word in without the media and fans bombarding her, yet all we are allowed to see is the cleaned up woman too busy being everyone else's therapist. Love you, Alanis!!
I want to amend one part of my comment. When I said the version of Alanis dressed as the driver from Ironic was her trying to cling to her youth I didn't mean in a vain or beauty oriented way. First off, Alanis hasn't fucking aged in almost 30 years. Secondly, I meant she's longing to be the person she used to be, the person trying to navigate the world which we only do when we feel like we have something to offer the world and the world has something to offer us in return. She no longer feels like she does. She feels like she's slowly losing that part of herself and she's struggling to come to terms with it, hence why that version of herself keeps looking back at someone dying and can't even bring herself to acknowledge it beyond an occasional glance. She feels done, like she and the world have nothing for each other anymore and that's not exactly the best feeling in the world or an easy thing to embrace. I have to say I disagree and can't imagine a world without Alanis's music and even her mere presence, but this is just how I'm interpreting her feelings through what I'm seeing in her video.
Hey "songwriting" kids..Never underestimate the power of a great opening line.."These are the reasons I drink.. The reasons I tell everybody I'm fine even though I am not".. Right through to the last line in the song.."I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit"..Treat this track as a free masterclass in song writing.
Constantly find myself listening to this. I’ve gone through addiction but it doesn’t hit it for me, hits for my sister who went through it last year. She’s 1 year and 4 months sober and every time I hear this it hurts but I’m also so entirely proud of how far she’s come. We do recover 🥰
Hey check out "empty bottles" by yelawolf "addiction " by collichie and "twin lakes" by Rittz...I have many more but 2 of those are my favorite rappers and have met them personally. Good guys.. They have been threw alot. Would mean alot if u checked out my channel and those artist...thankyou..✌👍🤦♂️
i admire an artist that stick to their art and keep doing what made them successful in the first place and dont go changing their identity to please the modern fan.👏👏
She's been so true to herself that at this times it overwhelms me. My brain and my ears were in need to listen to her work again, so fresh at this moment you that you listen to everything the same. Welcome Back Alanis we missed you badly! Come to Costa Rica again pleeeeeeeeease
"These are the reasons I drink The reasons I tell everybody I'm fine even though I am not These are the reasons I overdo it I have been working since I can remember, since I was single digits Now, even though I've been busted I don't know where to draw the line 'cause that groove has gotten so deep And nothing can give reprieve like they do Nothing can give a break for this soldier like they do Here we are I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong One more hit It feels so helpful in my need for respite And here are the reasons I eat Reasons I feel everything so deeply when I'm not medicated And so that's it, I am buying a Lamborghini To make up for these habits, to survive this sick industry Nothing can give reprieve like they do Nothing can give me a break from this torture like they do Here we are I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong One more sip It feels so helpful in my need for some long overdue respite And these are the reasons I don't even think I would quit And these are the reasons I can't even see straight And these are the ones whom I know it so deeply affects And I am left wondering how I would I function without it Here we are I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong One more rip I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit"
@@Global00Vintage You have to click the upside down arrow below the blue "tickets" button to check the extra details and links and lyrics to the video.
This also speaks so well about depression and the mechanisms we use to cope... Not solely addiction. I almost wish there were hotline numbers at the end in case others needed them. Beautiful work Alan's
As I sit here, struggling with the same issues, drinking a beer now, smoking cigs, even tho my boyfriend and I quit smoking last month, awaiting my dealer to show up with some perks....I struggle, I cry, I want to change....I want to do better....I equally don't want to change but I do want to stop. Thank you for making me face my demons. I WILL over come. I am not alone and if you are out there too, facing the same issues, be strong, one minute, one day, one week at a time....WE can do this, we are not alone and change can come....believe it and we can achieve it my friend!
Nik Stamps... You may have heard it said that drugs and alcohol are not your problem they’re your solution. PLEASE don’t do like me and wait your entire life to address the source of the pain that makes you feel the need to escape. For me it’s been FEAR. Every poor decision I’ve made has been based in fear. And it all stemmed from what became stored in my subconscious from infancy. Some pretty deep stuff...proceed with caution. Learn all you can but be sure and take action to change your thinking I never would that’s why I stayed stuck. Good luck to you and yours.
Recently joined AA. I definitely think you have to be completely honest with yourself about what you do and don't believe and are and aren't ready to do, but it is an incredible environment where you can start to face your issues.
I know it's really hard. I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired as the saying goes. Tired of the anxiety and illness that a constant hangover brings. Then you have another drink to stop the anxiety. It's just a big circle that never ends.
Omg she finally came out with a song again. She the only one that has never tried to be glamorous and let anyone take over her career requiring her to look sexy.
To: ANYONE battling any addiction or knows SOMEONE who is, which with that now includes EVERYONE, Alanis deserves a Nobel Prize for this song. She not only shows the courage to speak from the heart, but has her finger directly on the pulse of how it feels to be gripped by this heinous affliction that destroys so much without prejudice. This song should be an anthem to recovery and she has won me over as a fan for life. Keep it real, Ms. Morissette and THANK YOU!!!
My mum died of a heroin overdose when I was 18 months old. Alanis is the only artist who has ever been able to make me feel (just about every emotion there is) and come out the other end feeling stronger and more grateful for the life I have.
@@benjamingill3777 I'm sorry for your loss, and it's all senseless from both sides. The afflicted, the affected and she sees both sides. Becausae she's been there and is handling it with grace and using her forum for advocation of the truth. The truth is the strength you feel when councelor Morrisette walk out of that gym at the end. I tell people the true message of the song needs the video. My eyes are never dry by the end of it.
Is that really true? Is EVERYONE battling addiction or in close contact with someone who is? I think you're trying to normalize addiction, and that really isn't the sort of thing we should normalize.
Work in Social and Healthcare... No, I work with and for people for 32 years and I'm so sick of those who believe they know better for others...or are ahead of someone....We are all learning every day, from each other....Respect to all who "made it" and even more respect for all still trying.❤🩹
I’ve been all those people at AA. (Except the indigenous guy) The one who’s scared staring down. The one with the priest- yes. The mother being wheeled by. The one who’s chowing down on the donuts hahaha AA is a magical place. No one judges ❤ Edit: and the main point is that I saw myself in all of them. I think that’s the point of the video.
Soooo strange when she comes out with a perfect song that I didn’t know I desperately needed to hear. Last time that happened was over a decade ago with “Uninvited”....😳✨💖
😨More like 22 yrs ago, that is such an haunting/amazing song. She can still belt them out though, Great new song. Hope everyone's having a great Sunday🦋
this song is so current. the beat, the tempo, the chords, musically- this is so grounded in relevance. but the lyrics... a timeless issue, speaks to all ages- i've been addicted to at least *something* ever since i was a little girl. sex masquerading as love, love masquerading as validation, cigarettes masquerading as a breather, weed masquerading as clearing of the mind, food as a void filler, booze as a showcase of everything i could be but am not because of all these demons. i need to relisten to this. and more importantly, i think i feel like writing a new song. thanks, alanis. no wonder every alanis out there is named after you! x
@@EllaStone Sure, take care :). Oh, check out this one - brand new, great lyrics: Per Gessle - Around The Corner (The Comfort Song) (feat. Helena Josefsson)
When the comment is significantly more insightful, thoughtful and lyrical than the track... I'd like to hear that song Ms Stone, if all your writing resonates so lucidly. And, take care of yourself x
Her producer from Jagged Little Pill, Glen Ballard, described it so well on his instagram: "The transcendent Alanis ... I am blessed to have collaborated with an artist whose courage and truth is an inspiration to us all." 😭👏❤️😭👏❤️
Aaaaand there go the tears. Well shoot this just kinda hit home. Started buying wine since I lost my job, I never really drank at all since then, and boyfriend has been asking if I've been ok. Thought I was. Been thinking about it since he asked..but I guess you need a goddess to sing in your ear to really hear the warning signs huh. *UPDATE* Its Sep/2021. I'm doing so much better: called help lines and they helped me get into therapy, I'm taking medication, I have reliable work and income, I have a group of close friends for support, family support. Things definitely turned around for me over the last year after working so hard. A lot of you shared kind words and I thank you for them. Sending you all good vibes! Thank you again!!!
Holy shit. I've never listened to this song before but should've known Alanis would deliver an incredibly accurate romance for addiction killing too many people. Wicked song ❤🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦🤘🤘✌️
I got chills whatching this video! Alanis is my all time favourite and I'm so glad to see her doing what she does best. I feel my life is back on track again. Alanis, I freaking love you! Thank you!
Our world needs her voice and wisdom now more than ever. The only way to save the world is to find peace within your self and let that energy flow out through creativity.
SimplyEmily82 I have a different type of canvas... I’m a dog groomer. 🐕✂️ i work with many elderly, rescued and sick dogs and help them feel and look better. I also study astrology.
she was great.... But far from a legend.... she had a good run with the first album. But it may have been because she had GREAT MARKETING team by MAVERICK RECORDS, and her captured market included die hard Madonna fans, who buy anything Madonna touches.
@@eduardochavacanoJagged Little Pill was a game changer especially for female artists and in particular female songwriters. Yes the Madonna connection def helped in a lot of ways but i think the fact that Jagged Little Pill isn't her best work speaks volumes.
@Kevin Warburton she is not INDIE, ha ha ha. She was a pop star for several years.... and was a teeny bopper once, years of failure. Until, Madonna signed her to become the first launch of her record label MAVERICK. Madonna rules MTV and so Alannis in 1996 was given great marketing, while Madonna was busy with EVITA.
I was supposed to see Alanis with a long time friend of mine on the 17th but I just learned of his passing and am deeply saddened. I just had to listen to this song today in memory of him. R.I.P. Matt! You were a great friend and I'll miss you forever and love you!
I can see in this video Alanis is the councelor but she sees herself in her ‘patients’ as a mom battling PPD, alanis as her Havoc era dealing with being a celebrity and Alanis as her Jagged Little Pill era struggling with death sorrow and im guessing heartbreak? If someone can help me understand more that would be cool.
She's kinda mixing emotion and logic in her trademark inebriated vocals, notice she titled these are the reasons I drink, I love the shot at the end when all her so called multiple personalities or selves become different people and the "shrink" prevails, with no noticeable disorders or so called anomalies. But seriously, Alanis, if you ever become a shrink the first thing you need is steel nerves because if you're the introverted emotional type, you'd go nuts hearing the tales of pain from your patients, but prevail anyways! Please! #reasons
My interpretation is she is in an AA meeting. You see parts of yourself in everyone. I don't think she is a therapist I think when we see her walking in that is Alanis and the rest of the 'Alanis'' we see are her finding herself speaking about their reasons to drink, and eat... I grew up in the program (AA) so maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but my interpretation is just that. Successful Alanis, Past Alanis, Mother Alanis and the Actual Alanis. Love this song can't wait for Such Pretty Forks in the Road.
When she sang “ it’s why I feel everything So deeply when I’m not medicated” my heart ♥️ felt like it was clenching up. This is real and so simply put. I know there are so many of us that just get trampled emotionally just going about daily life and it can feel like an anchor tied to your feet. The first time I was given opiates after a snowmobile accident at age 19 was the first time I felt that anchor lift. And that was my downfall. Don’t look for the antidotes. I’m not sure what it is we should look for instead but I know it’s not going to be given to us that easily. It will take self reflection and strength from within. I am still climbing up from the hole that I have been in for 10 years. This epidemic and all of the deaths it has claimed are what it has taking to finally start shedding a light and helping to soften society enough to understand and learn what this really is.
Soulseedart thank you for sharing that. I’m battling the same “demons” and I want you to know that even though I have never met you, I love you and I fucking believe in you! “And I am left wondering how I would function without it”.
Oh wow, I sooo relate to all you've written. That same line, 'Reasons I feel everything so deeply when I’m not medicated." also completely jumped out at me too.
Her music is more timely than ever. She's got that one song where she says she hasn't left the house in a while, that other one where she has to keep smiling, and this one where all she does is drink...i think she hit a world wide chord this time around!
There is a double meaning in the song lyrics made clearer by the visuals: “These are the reasons I ( medicate with xyz crutch)” is the personal story each support group member tells each other to identify into the grp. We see their backstory acted out around each of them. But then the meaning changes when she is interviewed She points to the PEOPLE and says “these are the reasons I don’t even think I could quit” ( the recovery support group members are the reasons now). Tellingly, the news crew isn’t interested in that part lol. The meaning of the lyrics have changed: “ Here we are: nothing could give respite like THEY ( the group members) do. “Cant function without it ( recovery).” Also though The priest actor portrays a “13th” step* attempt in the group ( adding unspoken sexual addiction shame to the long list) and the recipient portrays the discomfort and the internalized social pressure on targets to not set boundary limits directly. . (*There are only 12 steps.) There is also double meaning as parts of her life are portrayed in each character, of course, as many fans recognize. The empowerment from the recovery group itself is the underlying message, which is ultimately rejected by one of the members who leaves them. Not everyone is capable of sharing vulnerabilities or of identifying with others vulnerabilities. Not everyone makes it.
What a wonderful clip and full of references. There is so much of Alanis (past and present), i enjoyed seeing her children and even her husband in the video. Congratulations, Alanis! Please come to Brazil soon! ❤️ 🇧🇷
First viewing = Busy admiring her current body and make up. 2nd viewing = Absorbing her vocals, beat and lyrics. 3rd viewing = Officially hooked again to Alanis.
Tin 💗 Tron for me my first viewing was “ooh! she has a new song!” And I notice the “Ironic” outfit. 2nd viewing: actually watches Video and feel sorry for her.
How many people STILL loves Alanis Morissette???
Um, some of them!
Me 💜
темнота *** me
I still do, wish she would celebrate the other albuns as mush as she does JLP tho. I get why she does it, but man, give us some SFIJ tour.
Tarô Nerd SFIJ is her best album so far!
I’m hitting 5 years sober in 6 days. Love this. Thank you, Alanis.
Well congrats! 💫 💫 That's frickin' _awesome._ 👍You don't know me, but I'm proud of you. 🌞🌟🌠
Just recently got sober after 20+ years of drink & drug...it's a bitch at first but it ultimately pays off ❤
@@BobShay-jf4vf Beautiful! (It may get hard again, for a while, just remember, it never lasts.)
@@Brucebod ....😁👍
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As a 90's teenager and now a 41 years old mom with tons of stories to tell, I can't even beggin to explain how I've loved this.
Same!!! 😀
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Me too :)
Absolutely ❤️ same
Renata Octaviani - Favas Cozinha this 41 year old agrees
Currently battling alcoholism. This song is therapy. Pray for me.
I'm not religious, but I know someone who is. I'll ask her to have a word for you. Hope it's working out OK.
you got this my dude
You, are not alone. Keep at it
I hope you doing well.
I've been an alcoholic since 2008, until 2012. Alcohol is useless. You cannot sleep? You drink and you sleep, but you'll be tired. You don't like or you can't stand your life? Alcohol won't solve this.
This literally picks up where she left off with the 90s teen to 40s life
This is so true!!
Lol right?
so you missed every record from the 00's until now ? I'm sorry.
@@CM-pi8et for real i was confused
Being 40 is not old! I still listen to young artists, but it's only to remind me it's still a savage,ungrateful world. Love still concur all. Greed was humanity's death discovery. So love all.
Yes, we need more “older” singers and celebrities, life doesn’t end when you turn 30. I want to see people, regular people tell their stories
Say it louder for the people in the back. I’m glad someone else thinks that. We were all so full of life and hope in the 90’s and now we’re in our 40’s and adulthood can make you just want to drink and eat
MADONNA'S BEEN DOING IT FOR ALMOST 4 DECADES AND SHE'S BEING VILIFIED FOR IT.
I’m turning 30 tomorrow :,(
Lolita Pravedoni Iwancew happy birthday!! Enjoy your 30’s! I had a family in my 30’s and it shifted my friendships a lot. So 30’s were way different than 20’s (for me) make sure that if your relationships change, let it be in a good way and if someone is no longer good for you, let them on their way. I know you didn’t ask but I hope it’s helpful. Have fun!
2Bdiscovered it’s like women aren’t allowed to age and perform. Like we should shrink. More power to Madonna!
4 years, 64 days sober. I am still here.
💪👍
@White Lotus I ended up adopting a little one eye pup who was a lot worse off than I was doing.. I focused all my energy in fixing that little guy. He saved my life.
@White Lotus I wish you the very best in life, you deserve it.
you're freaken awesome...keep that shit up
Fucking awesome. You are incredible
Her shrugging off the priests hand when he tries to touch her shoulder has so so much symbolism… the entire video does. Such a deep song. Alanis Morissette always was and still is so unique and iconic! What a voice.
That was absolute disgust coming from Alanis when the Pig,I mean Priest touched her.
And yes, I’m Catholic. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what “The Church” did over all these years.
Whats unique about doing drugs and being pro antigod in hollywood?
“Isn’t it i[c]onic? Don’t you think?”
@@JodiJolie Pig, Disgust is calling the priest a pig.
My mother left the Catholic Church exactly because of that yet I went to the same private catholic school she did yet I wasn’t as beautiful as she was nor as powerful so no one messed with me I guess 🤷🏽♀️ but none of my kiddos are religious and actually preach against it! We just wish good unto others and live a life of passion and goodness!
*This song is severely underrated.*
Yes it is.
😢🙏💓💓💓💓
Truth
6 Million veiws is soooooo much dude!
People just severely lost there understanding of numbers!
6 million x 4min = 6666h non stop. This video played over 2 Years non stop pure Alanis ;)
Edit: It has more play time than it is old!
On repeat for MONTHS
Alanis is pure honesty in her art. I missed this kind of music so much.
here here...she is so special
My dad made this video
@@hen4.0 Wow, lucky :)
Same.
@@hen4.0 Now I keep on thinking about your dad when I see the video 😅 Great job! Not just lucky.
Yay Alanis is back, portraying everyones paronioa, anxiety, perpetual misfortune, and depression.
Portraying maybe she like everyone else has a little bit of all of that
The way we like it.
i think this came from her post partum depression
Yassss so trendy!!!
A beautiful empath. 😍
As a 36 years old man, seeing Alanis using the "Ironic" outfit 2:36 , fills my heart with so much nostalgia and feels, simply love u, Alanis
Exactly.
YES!
Me too being 36 doesn't bring us back to the 90s kid mode again?
I thought I was the only one who noticed that.😊
so do i
Loved seeing "Ironic" Alanis in this video. So much love for this woman.
I had the same thing! Nice isn't it?
I lost it when I saw that! My absolute favorite song ever! ❤️
When I saw that, I wondered if other hers would show up from other previous videos, lol!
@@AshleyMintz absolutely same.
Wish I could tell her "thank you" with "one hand in my pocket"
This song deserve a grammy award 👌🏾
And sadly it won’t get one
It’s time
Whole album deserves a grammy award
Yas!!!
Corpsi in a different genre, of course
Holy shit ... Someone wrote a song that speaks truth .. 5 years sober today
Congrats mate keep it up. 11 years for me.
Congratulations
She has always been speaking truth....it is why I love her ❤
14 years sober this year. 🧡
Not sober, yet, but this song hit me like a semi-truck... I don't think a song has ever hit me this hard before. 😭
7 months and 22 days clean and sober and it was this song when it was released that started my journey of open-mindedness, I've been to rehab, I've got a sponsor, I work a program now, I'm so grateful for your music alanis thankyou
Love and support your way. 🙏💜
Great,12step with us from japan
I’m pretty sure Alanis will be just as proud of you as the rest of the world that have read your comment. You are strong & brave & never forget that. We all wish you love, peace & strength on your journey of life xxx
Congratulations! Welcome home... Your not alone.
Hope you're still holding strong! ~hugs~
man...jagged little pill got me through middle school. and now this song...she's helping me get through my 30s.
you nailed this, alanis.
same
Same girl!
"Jagged Little Pill" got you through Middle school? "Alanis" and "Now Is the Time" albums got me through Early high school before grunge took over. "Jagged Little Pill" got me over the 18 hill into adulthood.
Same
seems we were all growing up, together....
The "Ironic" beenie and scarf look 🙌🏼unafraid to reference or be referenced. What a queen!
The Queen of Pain! 🤗
Why would you be afraid to reference? Or be referenced?
Thank you...I've been searching for this comment; any comment that alluded to the "ironic" look.
Wait, soooo, was she just wasted in the ironic video, seeing a bunch of hallucinations of herself, and after her car died and she pulled off the road, she was immediately arrested for impaired driving and this AA or NA meeting is part of her sentence? And of course, it makes sense the “You outta know” Alanis is there too, she must have finally been identified as the person caught on camera blowing a dude infront of a packed theatre full of families watching the Lion King!! Ohh nooo 😮
Ahh, Arrested for impaired driving and driving off the road, when cops arrived on the scene she was talking to three other hallucinations of herself. Actually, I think the Alanis with the white shirt is supposed to be the “you outta know” Alanis? I think the scenes where she’s playing with the band, not the walking around by herself parts
She's back and her voice is better than ever!
Lex but it's not
Absolutely agree! She's amazing, now more than ever!
Her voice it's absolutely tired already to be honest 😞
Do you have an ear?
Don't fight You're ALL right... her voice is amazing, tired, honest, not the same as it used to be, and better than ever all at the same time.
Please never stop. You are the rhythm my mother lived by. You expressed what she needed through a divorce/domestic violence and finally cancer. She played your songs with me in her last days. I wish this came out before she passed. Please never stop.
sorry for your loss
WE LOVE THEIR VOICE\
Amen
❤️ I'm so sorry. Know that you are loved.
' This reasons ' are so very hard to explained to my high educated friends, I don't know why.
A independent artist,still relevant to this generation.
lest we forget she was Madonna's first Maverick artist.
SUBZEROUK yes she is. I teach 10th and 11th grade physics in NYC and all of these students play “ironic” and “hand in my pocket”. And “You Oughta Know”. You are just saying that because maybe you don’t find alanis still relevant. But her songs are always relatable though the decades. Girls are angsty, You just don’t know how “You Oughta Know” speaks to them.
@@eduardochavacano reported for using the word lest
@SUBZEROUK you dont like justin beiber and drake wtf ???
@SUBZEROUK She could be relevant if she made sound bites for Tik Tok. Then the youth of today would flock to find out about her music...lol That being said I know so many youths of today being raised by us '90s kids who were raised on classic rock/County...ect music by our parents thus appreciates past music.
Alanis held our hands through our 20s and now she's finally back to help us process the crisis of our 30s. I got so happy when I saw the Ironic outfit.
I was a young teen when she broke out on the scene and I'm 40 now. 😲
@@Sarah8561 You're still pretty young. 40 means 30 these days.
@@mistersurrealist haha I'll take it! 😊
Same feeling
@@Sarah8561 Same here, turned 40 last year!
I will never tire of Alanis' voice, or her lyricism. Glad to see you back doing what you do best.
Yes agreed
100%!!!
VonBlade I’m with you. I’ve missed her.
This is an adult's brain on fire, put to music, artfully and ingeniously crafted to touch millions. Thank God for Alanis.
dopest post ive ever come across...thank god for alanis and people like you! CLARITY!
That’s very profound. I like it.
I watch dogma, Alanis is God
I once read an article titled "Alanis, the only true voice in Ottawa". ❤
@@hotboytoy138 hh
“The reasons i feel everything so deeply when I’m not medicated” The line that hooked me to this song.
E Israel Andrade E it’s a line for our modern world.
Same
Same especially when I'm at your feet
I'm the opposite. Drinking is kind of the only thing that makes me feel my true feelings clearly. Then it gets to be too much. So I drink more.
She's kinda fat in 2020 and her eyes 👀 sunk into her face
My name is Daliah and I'm an alcoholic addict Currently in a relapse about getting back to being sober. I was clean for 10 years before I had a relapse. I did it before and I can do it again. To the addict still suffering.... What we can't do alone we can all do together. 💜🙏🙌
@Guusje Heijneman thank you. It's not been easy.
Daliah Fuentes you’ve been sober for 10 years , that’s great , you will be able to do it again , if you’ve done once for so long means you can .
@Daliah Fuentes, you can do it again. It's not easy, but easy things are for weak people. Believe yourself.
You’re not alone ! Be proud ! You’re a warrior !
Hang in there. You can do it.
Alanis and Tori Amos are my favorite singers
Isn't it ironic? She still has that voice after all these years.
Dancing Dakini she sounds a bit different but still great.
Nope. I've always expected that voice to be great. You ought to know. ;)
She is god isn’t she,
so duh
What a Jagged little pill
Sounds different to me but about as good
This is why I love Alanis Morissette so much.
So big. Recognizing parts of herself in the addict's around her. She was under enormous pressure from a very young age. It's amazing that she's here, committed to her craft and her family, and still baring her soul for us.
Jagged Little Pill saved my life when my mom died in '96, when I was 18. Alanis will always, always have a home in my heart for that
Alanis' music helped me thru rough patches from 19-25 mainly...funny how singers remain special during hardships...glad she helped u thru your mum's death..young age to lose her
xo
That album helped me through a rough patch in my marriage and insecurities I was dealing with in that time.
JLP also helped me through my mum's death in '96, I was 13. I would sit on my bedroom floor and listen to it on repeat.
Stay strong
Bro this song makes me cry but this comment section??? Everyone sharing their sobriety journey I am SO PROUD of you!!! I’ve lost too many friends to substance abuse and the world needs you!! Don’t mind me I’m just crying happy tears that this song helped others like it helps me every time I’m tempted to go back.
Well done!🎉 It's an awful disease.
Il faut tenir ,pas le choix sinon c'est retour en enfer.
i feel ya as someone who lost my best friend to substance abuse seeing so many addicts inspired by Alanis's bravery is uplifting. I got another friend battling it now and repeesentation has allowed better therapy options to exist now then what used to be just AA (Which dont work on athiests likeu friends whom don't believe in higher powers lol)
😭🫂
😢😢😢😢😮qa😂@@Selfophob
It's like the heroines of Ironic meeting each other after 25 years, telling each other what was their life through these decades. Welcome back, Mrs Morisette!
And she released the video, the same day 24 years apart. How brilliant!
@@noridarodriguez7087 I didn't know that! Thanks for your info!
We need Artists with a real story to tell more than ever. Thank you Alanis
So well said. 100% agree.
Yes. Indeed we do
I can help with that. I’m working on it.
Try listening to Meg Myers he's like the closest thing this new generation has to her
This video and it's accompanying lyrics give me the strength to seek help before it's too late. Thanks Alanis.
Me too,you can over Come. I send you my love and support. Be strong, make that change my friend!
Yes seek there is an abundance of ways to heal. Bless xx
Big hugs🖤
This right here keeps me going. Writing, recording, directing, editing. All here: ruclips.net/video/D292PmJqEnA/видео.html
I just decided this past week to seek help too. You’re not alone. Sending strength 🤙
15 months sober!! Keep coming back.
18 now congratz and keep it up
She's in my mind. She says things so honestly. Everything.
no shit is fucking mmusic!n satan aint dumb gemius!
@Luis Collado well, I am not sure how she will find it in herself to go through with life after this but I am sure she'll manage.
@Luis Collado who are you to say that I’m sure she’s happy and healthy and thankful to be alive to be recovering from addiction
Totally the same. I just discovered this song and I am obsessed.
@@kaytebush6434 I know it’s just full of so much emphasis so much power to her voice
It was so much fun playing the Creepy Priest in "Why I Drink." Alanis was as friendly as could be as were all that worked on it.
Awesome 👍
Jealous...much? Lol
She is amazing. I'm really glad you were able to bring the vision to life!
Congrats dude!
What a privilege to get to work with her. One of the greatest!
The brilliance just doesn't fade. She always has a way of peeling away the outer and into the soul.
How many people STILL loves Alanis Morissette???
I have not used illegal drugs in over 20 years. God. Rehab. Church Friends. Music. Alanis. That is how I stay clean.
I'm named after Alanis Morrisette. And i'm very proud of that. She's so brave to put herself on a plate and say this is who i am you can like me or you can hate me either's fine but i'm still me regardless.
I'm now clean and sober.
1 year and 4 months clean from Cocaine.
4 months clean from self harm.
3 months sober.
2 months clean from purging.
Very proud. It really is one day at a time.
I use my addictions to escape the world. To escape reality.
To feel happy i used coke.
To feel release from the pressure of everything weighing me down i cut.
To escape reality i drink.
To feel control i throw up.
But i'm learning that i can be happy without coke. That i can find ways of release that don't hurt me. There's ways i can get release without having to escape from the fact that that's one of my coping mechanisms. I can have ways of escapism that are productive and helpful. And i can build a life that i don't need to escape from. And that throwing up happens because i can't control it and i can have more control by not doing it. There's a lot i'm able to control and when i control my food and eating i lose control in so many aspects.
I'm very excited about the life i'm building. One where addictions aren't something that control my life. I've had to draw the line at any use of these substances or methods because for me there isn't a line after that, i'll just keep doing it. I can't have one drink, i can either have no drinks or as many as possible until i'm unconscious.
Thank you so much other Alanis for giving us this part of you.
Proud... music has many healing attributes. Keep on the positive. I was in a dark place once.. actually around the same time of "jagged little pill" came a band called (Jars of clay) with songs like "worlds apart" and "love song for a savior" which pulled me through many a time... I pray you find peace like that!💖
Well done and hold on ! You are right to be proud 👏🏻👏🏻
❤️❤️❤️
Lucky you!🍀
I love that she looks like an actual human being, not some unrealistic plastic and silicone concoction. She's beautiful.
Right? So true
She looks good
While she’s clearly a gifted artist, this work continues to verify her stability as a person. Always her true self, no pretense or scrambling to “re-invention”. What an amazing testament to her as an individual, all art aside. Bravo!
Sounds classy to me. And far too Catholic as well hehe
Well, you know how those Catholic girls can be....
0 days sober here. just love alanis... been here past the best of 96' and the breakout. the voice, the message ... you are still the best
Same here !!!! And I relapsed 😢
I feel you both... We'll get there!
I relapsed.
Such a positive comments section. Alanis really deserves that
So Dixie Chicks, Gaga, and Alanis gave us new music in same month.. I can't deal..rise of the artists.. I really miss her voice
Yeah I love Alanis, and always have, she's brilliant. Dixie pigs couldn't wipe her ass, they will sell nothing!
I think Fiona Apple is dropping her new album soon as well.
And Celine is back ! 😊
Grimes!
Now, we need something from Natalie Merchant...
You've grown, healed and evolved so much but you're still so brutally honest and raw about things that matter and life as a human. I'm so grateful to you Alanis. Thank you for staying true to yourself, your sound and your artform. This song is so upbeat but so deep at the same time and the video totally takes it to another level. I'm so so excited for this next album. Its so rare for a longtime artist to maintain their sound and authenticity after healing and coming out the other side of trauma, but you've done it! And i LOVE IT!
My algorithm must be high because it showed me this song 4 years later!!! Come ON RUclips! I've been subscribed to Alanis channel for years now!
“I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit”
I’ve been sober for six months now and this is a brilliant song. It describes exactly how for me drinking is a way to hide/run away from stress and trauma. I also love how she sees herself in everyone in the circle. Addicts and alcoholics may have different stories, but the core feelings are usually the same.
Congrats on 6 months James! I happened to stumble upon this video and something told me that I needed to watch. Im just starting out on my road to recovery, and going to go to my first NA meeting next week. I've known I needed to do this for quite some time and have been self-medicating to control when I can wake up and when I can go to sleep, so hopefully again take this video as a sign that I need to finally follow through and go to a meeting
Kristen Annear wow that is a HUGE step! It’s never easy to admit defeat, but ultimately recovery is a very rewarding journey. I’ve been in and out of sobriety for five years now, so no matter what don’t lose hope and take it easy on yourself. All that matters is today. :)
Congratulations my friend 👍I'm 6 months of buprenorphine.. Life's finally started falling in place.. I wish you all the luck and hope in your journey 👍
Keep moving forward on your journey, my friends! Life can get so much better!
I spent 10 years as an addict before climbing out. I'm about to reach my 11 yr milestone and it honestly feels like a completely different life time at this point... There is a light at the end of the tunnel. If you fuck up - just try again. Don't be too hard on yourself 💜🖤💜
Congratulations to you all!
One of her personas is wearing the same clothes she wore in the "Ironic" music video. Or very similar clothes anyway...
I noticed that, too!
Perhaps the same character?
Yep. Love this woman. Glad shes bck😊
I think each persona calls back to a significant moment in her life. The 'Ironic" outfit, like you've pointed out. I think the dressed up in white shirt is from the "You Oughta Know" video, when she first hit it big, which is why that persona is interviewed and signs autographs. Trying to figure out the mom in the robe look.
You saw that too
Oooohhh her iconic ironic look💜
Loved her since my teens- I am 41. Man, this song hits hard
Ill be 40 come may 2024. I remember my friend copying her jagged little pill album for me way back when.
J ai 45 ans et elle m accompagné depuis mon adolescence, a mes étapes de vie, comme une grande sœur. Qu elle talent je l adore
Love that she is wearing the same outfit as Ironic.
Syl Luc and isn't it ironic, don't you think?
You Oughta Know the other outfit 😉
Exactly the first thing I figured out as well 😄😀
She finally arrived at the meeting she was driving to, *checks notes* ...TWENTY-FOUR YEARS LATER?!
Isn't it ironic?
No 😂
These are the reasons I drink
The reasons I tell everybody I'm fine even though I am not
These are the reasons I overdo it
I have been working since I can remember, since I was single digits
Now, even though I've been busted
I don't know where to draw the line 'cause that groove has gotten so deep
And nothing can give reprieve like they do
Nothing can give a break for this soldier like they do
Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more hit
It feels so helpful in my need for respite
And here are the reasons I eat
Reasons I feel everything so deeply when I'm not medicated
And so that's it, I am buying a Lamborghini
To make up for these habits, to survive this sick industry
Nothing can give reprieve like they do
Nothing can give me a break from this torture like they do
Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more sip
It feels so helpful in my need for some long overdue respite
And these are the reasons I don't even think I would quit
And these are the reasons I can't even see straight
And these are the ones whom I know it so deeply affects
And I am left wondering how I would I function without it
Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more rip
I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit
These are such great and real lyrics!
Να είσαι καλά!!!!
#Love is #Love #29 #02 #2020
Να περνάς όμορφα.... 🌟💓
10
Love this ... I used to have a million reasons to want to drink ...
I used them all up
F**k addiction 9.18.16 and still clean and sober 🙌
👍💚
To 1 Sarah from another Sarah, keep up the great work. 5/10/20 was my 16th anniversary !! But all that counts is today. Keep up the great, but hard work !!✌❤
The only thing that upset me was I couldn't get my chip due to the Coronavirus. Once again, keep up the great work !! 😊✌❤
I'm struggling with drinking right now. This song gives me hope..
Gives me hope. I’m struggling and trying myself
Jeez Alanis , that is a brutal and beautiful video, but the song is more direct !! I love you Alanis ,I will try to drink less, Thank U. From Scotland , Remember us ?
I was 14 when Jagged Little Pill came out, coming to 40 and i'm still here. Thank you!
I was 25 when Jagged Little Pill came out I was coming out of a bad breakup & other emotional crap. Now I'm 51 & I still understand.
I was 13 when that album came out and I still listen to it now
Same here- same exact age. Alanis is still writing meaningful and honest stuff...I'm impressed.
I feel every part of your comment. I was 12 and sadly not all of my friends are still here, but Alanis gave me strength
That's me!
For some reason when this song came out, I dismissed it. I guess I just wasn't in an Alanis mood. I like to think Alanis is "mood food" but really it's just so emotionally weighty that sometimes you can't face her raw lyrics. I'm so glad I found this song
"Morissette also struggled with eating disorders as a young adult, something she has compared to the struggle of someone addicted to alcohol or drugs. "The big question for me around eating-disorder recovery is, 'What is sobriety with food?'" Morissette told Women's Health. "We know with alcohol, you just don't drink it and don't go to a bar. With heroin, you just don't go near it. Whereas with food, you have to eat, so how can one go from, in my case, bingeing and purging, starving, overeating, the scale going up and down - how can I go from that to a 'sober' approach?"
(from The List)
Wow never really compared the struggles. I guess it’s realizing you want to live. Food is essential to our human body survival. It can not function without it. You do not have to be consumed by food but you have to consume it to stay alive. Find a balance between what you need and what you want. I’m in no way a professional, and if you feel you need professional help please seek it! I’m just me, who’s been there, and is here now.
Im sure her therapist helped her through that. Food addiction is very real and it goes with the addictions of drugs, alcohol, sex, and gambling. Probably even more but those come to the top of my list.
I think this is a powerful conversation. Alcohol or drugs are harmless if left alone. Food is needed, but in reverse, the neglect of eating causes harm. It's about why we use substances or neglect food. Either way, we are numbing our pain and that looks different to many people. There is a lot of intersectionality to this song which is very powerful.
@@crystallitchfield4639 Must be rough, another poor millionaire with a problem. Do you share that same concern with the homeless as you walk down the street?? or do you need a music video to peak your righteous concern for humanity.
@@crystallitchfield4639 you don't get it
So caught up in helping others that you almost aren't even allowed to face your own demons or cry out for help so instead you turn to vices. That's the message I get from this video and good god it hits home. I imagine this is the four Alanises from the Ironic video, who at the time represented the fun, youthful, and daring sides of a girl trying to navigate the world, but have now morphed into the person she has become: the stressed out mother, the nostalgic woman wanting to cling to her past/youth (dressed as the driver from Ironic), and the dolled up celebrity who can't get a word in without the media and fans bombarding her, yet all we are allowed to see is the cleaned up woman too busy being everyone else's therapist.
Love you, Alanis!!
Open Casket Ready Faces Love this!
I want to amend one part of my comment. When I said the version of Alanis dressed as the driver from Ironic was her trying to cling to her youth I didn't mean in a vain or beauty oriented way. First off, Alanis hasn't fucking aged in almost 30 years. Secondly, I meant she's longing to be the person she used to be, the person trying to navigate the world which we only do when we feel like we have something to offer the world and the world has something to offer us in return. She no longer feels like she does. She feels like she's slowly losing that part of herself and she's struggling to come to terms with it, hence why that version of herself keeps looking back at someone dying and can't even bring herself to acknowledge it beyond an occasional glance. She feels done, like she and the world have nothing for each other anymore and that's not exactly the best feeling in the world or an easy thing to embrace. I have to say I disagree and can't imagine a world without Alanis's music and even her mere presence, but this is just how I'm interpreting her feelings through what I'm seeing in her video.
Open Casket Ready Faces thank you for this comment
Thanks for that deep and interesting interpretation of the video, this was what I was looking for :)
Radekuroshi Thanks. I try to insert some thought and feeling in between a bunch of comments from people who only speak meme
Hey "songwriting" kids..Never underestimate the power of a great opening line.."These are the reasons I drink..
The reasons I tell everybody I'm fine even though I am not".. Right through to the last line in the song.."I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit"..Treat this track as a free masterclass in song writing.
Constantly find myself listening to this. I’ve gone through addiction but it doesn’t hit it for me, hits for my sister who went through it last year. She’s 1 year and 4 months sober and every time I hear this it hurts but I’m also so entirely proud of how far she’s come. We do recover 🥰
Hey check out "empty bottles" by yelawolf "addiction " by collichie and "twin lakes" by Rittz...I have many more but 2 of those are my favorite rappers and have met them personally. Good guys.. They have been threw alot. Would mean alot if u checked out my channel and those artist...thankyou..✌👍🤦♂️
i admire an artist that stick to their art and keep doing what made them successful in the first place and dont go changing their identity to please the modern fan.👏👏
She's been so true to herself that at this times it overwhelms me. My brain and my ears were in need to listen to her work again, so fresh at this moment you that you listen to everything the same. Welcome Back Alanis we missed you badly! Come to Costa Rica again pleeeeeeeeease
Isn't it ironic?
@@trakrekkid Don't you think?
"These are the reasons I drink
The reasons I tell everybody I'm fine even though I am not
These are the reasons I overdo it
I have been working since I can remember, since I was single digits
Now, even though I've been busted
I don't know where to draw the line 'cause that groove has gotten so deep
And nothing can give reprieve like they do
Nothing can give a break for this soldier like they do
Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more hit
It feels so helpful in my need for respite
And here are the reasons I eat
Reasons I feel everything so deeply when I'm not medicated
And so that's it, I am buying a Lamborghini
To make up for these habits, to survive this sick industry
Nothing can give reprieve like they do
Nothing can give me a break from this torture like they do
Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more sip
It feels so helpful in my need for some long overdue respite
And these are the reasons I don't even think I would quit
And these are the reasons I can't even see straight
And these are the ones whom I know it so deeply affects
And I am left wondering how I would I function without it
Here we are
I feel such rapture and my comfort is so strong
One more rip
I go from one lily pad to another to stay lit"
Thanks 😊
The lyrics are literally in the video description.
MachelTheDestroyer they aren’t on the mobile app. 🤷🏻♀️
@@Global00Vintage I'm on mobile and they are for me. Idk what to tell you. Maybe update your app?
@@Global00Vintage You have to click the upside down arrow below the blue "tickets" button to check the extra details and links and lyrics to the video.
Her vocal is strong and stunning❤
This also speaks so well about depression and the mechanisms we use to cope... Not solely addiction. I almost wish there were hotline numbers at the end in case others needed them. Beautiful work Alan's
Here I am! Fan since 1995! 🇺🇾
I have ALWAYS LOVED how she has balls to say things that most people in the industry don't and UNAPOLOGETICALLY.
Красавица, милая моя любимая Alanis! Лучик солнца в этом сумасшедшем мире!
As I sit here, struggling with the same issues, drinking a beer now, smoking cigs, even tho my boyfriend and I quit smoking last month, awaiting my dealer to show up with some perks....I struggle, I cry, I want to change....I want to do better....I equally don't want to change but I do want to stop. Thank you for making me face my demons. I WILL over come. I am not alone and if you are out there too, facing the same issues, be strong, one minute, one day, one week at a time....WE can do this, we are not alone and change can come....believe it and we can achieve it my friend!
Nik Stamps... You may have heard it said that drugs and alcohol are not your problem they’re your solution. PLEASE don’t do like me and wait your entire life to address the source of the pain that makes you feel the need to escape. For me it’s been FEAR. Every poor decision I’ve made has been based in fear. And it all stemmed from what became stored in my subconscious from infancy. Some pretty deep stuff...proceed with caution. Learn all you can but be sure and take action to change your thinking I never would that’s why I stayed stuck. Good luck to you and yours.
Recently joined AA. I definitely think you have to be completely honest with yourself about what you do and don't believe and are and aren't ready to do, but it is an incredible environment where you can start to face your issues.
reddit r/stopdrinking Come share your struggles.
I know it's really hard. I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired as the saying goes. Tired of the anxiety and illness that a constant hangover brings. Then you have another drink to stop the anxiety. It's just a big circle that never ends.
When a wish to change is bigger then the fear of changing, that's when the change happens.
~I believe in you
Im an old metal head like 50 ish but man o man do i love Alanis Morissette.
🤘
Same here.
Yep
Same here,I am an old metal head in my sixties and I love Alanis
Jay bray me toooo🤘🏿crazy .. she kicks ass!!!! Hard to believe she gots the ROCK goods!!!💀
Alanis still absolutely crushing it
Yeah brother 😍❤❤❤❤❤👏
This women is the voice of the 90s. Really wish musicians had this much talent nowadays!
Omg she finally came out with a song again. She the only one that has never tried to be glamorous and let anyone take over her career requiring her to look sexy.
Natalie Valenzuela When you write and sing like Alanis you dont need to look sexy to sell a lot of records!
@@gercomar2892 I know that's why she is amazing that way
Then you surely havent seen her early work
I’ve always appreciated that about her
@@MonieMuse then you too surely havent seen what she was doing at the beginning of her music career . its on here you can find it
To: ANYONE battling any addiction or knows SOMEONE who is, which with that now includes EVERYONE, Alanis deserves a Nobel Prize for this song. She not only shows the courage to speak from the heart, but has her finger directly on the pulse of how it feels to be gripped by this heinous affliction that destroys so much without prejudice. This song should be an anthem to recovery and she has won me over as a fan for life. Keep it real, Ms. Morissette and THANK YOU!!!
Yes. A Human Race Anthem. Thanks for your comment. It's about all of us.
My mum died of a heroin overdose when I was 18 months old. Alanis is the only artist who has ever been able to make me feel (just about every emotion there is) and come out the other end feeling stronger and more grateful for the life I have.
Alan from Gibraltar - wow says it all - thank you John
@@benjamingill3777 I'm sorry for your loss, and it's all senseless from both sides. The afflicted, the affected and she sees both sides. Becausae she's been there and is handling it with grace and using her forum for advocation of the truth. The truth is the strength you feel when councelor Morrisette walk out of that gym at the end. I tell people the true message of the song needs the video. My eyes are never dry by the end of it.
Is that really true? Is EVERYONE battling addiction or in close contact with someone who is? I think you're trying to normalize addiction, and that really isn't the sort of thing we should normalize.
Her unique voice and presence. Welcome back, Alanis!
Work in Social and Healthcare... No, I work with and for people for 32 years and I'm so sick of those who believe they know better for others...or are ahead of someone....We are all learning every day, from each other....Respect to all who "made it" and even more respect for all still trying.❤🩹
I’ve been all those people at AA. (Except the indigenous guy) The one who’s scared staring down. The one with the priest- yes. The mother being wheeled by. The one who’s chowing down on the donuts hahaha AA is a magical place. No one judges ❤
Edit: and the main point is that I saw myself in all of them. I think that’s the point of the video.
Soooo strange when she comes out with a perfect song that I didn’t know I desperately needed to hear. Last time that happened was over a decade ago with “Uninvited”....😳✨💖
Ms Ginny , I totally relate!
😨More like 22 yrs ago, that is such an haunting/amazing song. She can still belt them out though, Great new song. Hope everyone's having a great Sunday🦋
Thank you was another great song
Ms Ginny more like over 20 years ago...uninvited is an old song.
Then I guess you didnt hear the💫Amazing💫 2012 "RECEIVE"? 😔I'm Sorry!😑
Been loving Alanis since Jagged Little Pill 💊... she’s still as original, sassy and upfront as she has always been.
Also still absolutely gorgeous.
Francesca Powell damn straight
Jagged Little Pill Pill?
Yes!
Yes!
JLP saw me through a terrible marriage, liberating divorce, and the rest of the insane 90's. Alannis is the very soul of Gen X. Preach, sister!
Feb 29th 2024 and Alanis is still the best
this song is so current. the beat, the tempo, the chords, musically- this is so grounded in relevance. but the lyrics... a timeless issue, speaks to all ages- i've been addicted to at least *something* ever since i was a little girl.
sex masquerading as love, love masquerading as validation, cigarettes masquerading as a breather, weed masquerading as clearing of the mind, food as a void filler, booze as a showcase of everything i could be but am not because of all these demons.
i need to relisten to this. and more importantly, i think i feel like writing a new song. thanks, alanis. no wonder every alanis out there is named after you! x
I can relate to all that, except for cigarettes. Insightful in terms of masquerade. Good comment Stone.
@@wojciechchmiel2443 hey thanks chmiel!
@@EllaStone Sure, take care :). Oh, check out this one - brand new, great lyrics: Per Gessle - Around The Corner (The Comfort Song) (feat. Helena Josefsson)
this comment hit me
When the comment is significantly more insightful, thoughtful and lyrical than the track...
I'd like to hear that song Ms Stone, if all your writing resonates so lucidly. And, take care of yourself x
God, her honesty is so beautifully brutal. I love her.
Her producer from Jagged Little Pill, Glen Ballard, described it so well on his instagram: "The transcendent Alanis ... I am blessed to have collaborated with an artist whose courage and truth is an inspiration to us all." 😭👏❤️😭👏❤️
Aaaaand there go the tears. Well shoot this just kinda hit home. Started buying wine since I lost my job, I never really drank at all since then, and boyfriend has been asking if I've been ok. Thought I was. Been thinking about it since he asked..but I guess you need a goddess to sing in your ear to really hear the warning signs huh.
*UPDATE*
Its Sep/2021. I'm doing so much better: called help lines and they helped me get into therapy, I'm taking medication, I have reliable work and income, I have a group of close friends for support, family support. Things definitely turned around for me over the last year after working so hard. A lot of you shared kind words and I thank you for them. Sending you all good vibes! Thank you again!!!
I am happy for you. Realizing there is a problem is the beginning. Hugs and best of luck.
I wish I liked to drink. But I have other issues.
Same here. I don’t even remember how I started relying on alcohol because it’s been so long.... it’s humiliating
Losing your job is one of the hardest things in the world. You will get through this, even if it sucks while you do.
@no comment what?
Holy shit. I've never listened to this song before but should've known Alanis would deliver an incredibly accurate romance for addiction killing too many people.
Wicked song ❤🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦🤘🤘✌️
I got chills whatching this video! Alanis is my all time favourite and I'm so glad to see her doing what she does best. I feel my life is back on track again. Alanis, I freaking love you! Thank you!
Geovani Medeiros 💘
Our world needs her voice and wisdom now more than ever. The only way to save the world is to find peace within your self and let that energy flow out through creativity.
Internet messed us us all up.
Exactly!!
Beautiful. What art do you do? How did you find peace?
SimplyEmily82 I have a different type of canvas... I’m a dog groomer. 🐕✂️ i work with many elderly, rescued and sick dogs and help them feel and look better. I also study astrology.
She’s heading to legendary status (if she wasn’t there already)
she was great.... But far from a legend.... she had a good run with the first album. But it may have been because she had GREAT MARKETING team by MAVERICK RECORDS, and her captured market included die hard Madonna fans, who buy anything Madonna touches.
@@eduardochavacanoJagged Little Pill was a game changer especially for female artists and in particular female songwriters. Yes the Madonna connection def helped in a lot of ways but i think the fact that Jagged Little Pill isn't her best work speaks volumes.
@Kevin Warburton she is not INDIE, ha ha ha. She was a pop star for several years.... and was a teeny bopper once, years of failure. Until, Madonna signed her to become the first launch of her record label MAVERICK. Madonna rules MTV and so Alannis in 1996 was given great marketing, while Madonna was busy with EVITA.
I was supposed to see Alanis with a long time friend of mine on the 17th but I just learned of his passing and am deeply saddened. I just had to listen to this song today in memory of him. R.I.P. Matt! You were a great friend and I'll miss you forever and love you!
I can see in this video Alanis is the councelor but she sees herself in her ‘patients’ as a mom battling PPD, alanis as her Havoc era dealing with being a celebrity and Alanis as her Jagged Little Pill era struggling with death sorrow and im guessing heartbreak? If someone can help me understand more that would be cool.
She's kinda mixing emotion and logic in her trademark inebriated vocals, notice she titled these are the reasons I drink, I love the shot at the end when all her so called multiple personalities or selves become different people and the "shrink" prevails, with no noticeable disorders or so called anomalies. But seriously, Alanis, if you ever become a shrink the first thing you need is steel nerves because if you're the introverted emotional type, you'd go nuts hearing the tales of pain from your patients, but prevail anyways! Please! #reasons
alxbth shes totally channelling all the looks across her career.. i love it.
My interpretation is she is in an AA meeting. You see parts of yourself in everyone. I don't think she is a therapist I think when we see her walking in that is Alanis and the rest of the 'Alanis'' we see are her finding herself speaking about their reasons to drink, and eat... I grew up in the program (AA) so maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but my interpretation is just that. Successful Alanis, Past Alanis, Mother Alanis and the Actual Alanis. Love this song can't wait for Such Pretty Forks in the Road.
This one reminds me of Ironic's MV, where there are many Alanises involved
The red hat with scarf outfit is a throwback to that video.
The album (so far) reminds me of Jagged Little Pill but at a different point in life
Daffa Bagaskara I was just about to comment that! ;)
Yep! Alanis in the red scarf and beanie is the Alanis from Ironic!
Even in the "You learn" music video there were lots of Alanis. It must be a leitmotiv in her life: like a multiple self.
When she sang “ it’s why I feel everything So deeply when I’m not medicated” my heart ♥️ felt like it was clenching up. This is real and so simply put. I know there are so many of us that just get trampled emotionally just going about daily life and it can feel like an anchor tied to your feet. The first time I was given opiates after a snowmobile accident at age 19 was the first time I felt that anchor lift. And that was my downfall. Don’t look for the antidotes. I’m not sure what it is we should look for instead but I know it’s not going to be given to us that easily. It will take self reflection and strength from within. I am still climbing up from the hole that I have been in for 10 years. This epidemic and all of the deaths it has claimed are what it has taking to finally start shedding a light and helping to soften society enough to understand and learn what this really is.
Soulseedart thank you for sharing that. I’m battling the same “demons” and I want you to know that even though I have never met you, I love you and I fucking believe in you! “And I am left wondering how I would function without it”.
This is real. Thank you for sharing.
Oh wow, I sooo relate to all you've written. That same line, 'Reasons I feel everything so deeply when I’m not medicated." also completely jumped out at me too.
Breathe, meditate, sun, exercise...Wim Hof...heal naturally...you can do it...
I am with you, girl. More than you know..
Her songs embody the stages of grief through the years .
Her music is more timely than ever. She's got that one song where she says she hasn't left the house in a while, that other one where she has to keep smiling, and this one where all she does is drink...i think she hit a world wide chord this time around!
H Kay When did she write the album?
@@MM-nh8ez She writing songs about 4 years ago I know Ablaze was one of the first songs she preformed in 2017 and Rest which didn't make the album.
It's super funny the way you put it and so true. . .
"These are the reasons I don't even think I would quit" - very empowering message in this song.
What exactly about this song empowered you?
They literally just included the lyrics lmao. Why do you need more?
@@clockworkNate I like to understand where people are coming.
There is a double meaning in the song lyrics made clearer by the visuals:
“These are the reasons I ( medicate with xyz crutch)” is the personal story each support group member tells each other to identify into the grp. We see their backstory acted out around each of them.
But then the meaning changes when she is interviewed
She points to the PEOPLE and says “these are the reasons I don’t even think I could quit” ( the recovery support group members are the reasons now). Tellingly, the news crew isn’t interested in that part lol.
The meaning of the lyrics have changed:
“ Here we are: nothing could give respite like THEY ( the group members) do. “Cant function without it ( recovery).”
Also though
The priest actor portrays a “13th” step* attempt in the group ( adding unspoken sexual addiction shame to the long list) and the recipient portrays the discomfort and the internalized social pressure on targets to not set boundary limits directly.
. (*There are only 12 steps.)
There is also double meaning as parts of her life are portrayed in each character, of course, as many fans recognize. The empowerment from the recovery group itself is the underlying message, which is ultimately rejected by one of the members who leaves them. Not everyone is capable of sharing vulnerabilities or of identifying with others vulnerabilities. Not everyone makes it.
@@jordanallen3078 focus on yourself, not others. Then you will understand.
What a wonderful clip and full of references. There is so much of Alanis (past and present), i enjoyed seeing her children and even her husband in the video.
Congratulations, Alanis! Please come to Brazil soon! ❤️ 🇧🇷
Come to Indonesia.. ID
E passe pelo Uruguai pelo amor de Deus
Quem é o marido dela?
and Peru too
@@renatenha aparece atrás dela quando os filhos estão fazendo bagunça rs
I'm crying so hard i can hardly breathe
First viewing = Busy admiring her current body and make up.
2nd viewing = Absorbing her vocals, beat and lyrics.
3rd viewing = Officially hooked again to Alanis.
Tin 💗 Tron for me my first viewing was “ooh! she has a new song!” And I notice the “Ironic” outfit. 2nd viewing: actually watches Video and feel sorry for her.
"Today's accomplishments are yesterday's impossibilities."