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Ironically, for a singer who supposedly becamefamous for her unfettered anger, Alanis' best workis her most subtle. "You Oughta Know" might be thesong that made her famous, but tracks like "AreYou Still Mad" will provide her with careerlongevity and new creative outlets. Much like thehidden number on Jagged Little Pill, thesong asks seemingly apologetic questions to aformer lover: "Are you still mad that I kicked youout of bed? / Are you still mad I gave youultimatums? / Are you still mad I had an emotionalaffair?" After a series of these soft,rhythmically soothing questions, she answers themwith a reverberating "Of course...
...Happy Fourth of July! Sure, it's a free country, but sometimes there oughta be a law against laws. Some don'ts, sensible to silly, from around the nation...
...White House sex scandals are one thing, but how can anyone avoid Viagra and virility? Or public discussions of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS and herpes? Young girls have lip-synched often enough to Alanis Morissette's big hit of a couple of years ago, You Oughta Know, to have found the sex nestled in the lyric. But it's more than just movies and television and news. Adolescent curiosity about sex is fed by a pandemic openness about it--in the schoolyard, on the bus, at home when no adult is watching. Just eavesdrop at the mall one afternoon...
...little mustard on it? Put a little mustard on it? Who does he think he is? Why I oughta...
...this happened?" But Eappen is looking for rationality where there is little. Consider this irony: no doubt many of the people jamming the airwaves condemning Eappen for going to work and leaving a small child at home are the same ones demanding that welfare mothers do exactly that. There oughta be a law, folks clamored, and now there is: the 1995 Welfare Reform Act, which requires welfare mothers to get a job, any job--cleaning houses, flipping burgers or, most ironic, watching other people's children--or lose their benefits...