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Alanis' lyrics are not only intelligent andhonest, but also remarkably simple. True, sheoccasionally overshoots and ends up withimpenetrable babble: "We left the men and we wentfor a walk in the gatineaus / and talked likewomen like women would / womyn to womyn would?"But when she tightens up her meaning and finds thebackground in which to frame it, the result isoften perfection. "I Was Hoping," for instance, isthe best track on the album simply because itscatchy melody is complemented, rather thantrivialized by it lyrics. No line repeats in thesong, preferring to move in a limitlessprogression...
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