Jagged

For all the controversy about Alanis being unhappy with the film and finding it "salacious," it's actually pretty dull. After the Woodstock '99 documentary, which was informative, entertaining, and did a great job contextualizing the events depicted, I had much higher hopes for this. Unfortunately, it's less of a documentary and more of a retrospective without a whole lot to say. The music is still great, though.

Fascinating look at her origins, the issues she dealt with as a female artist in a male dominated commercial industry and her thoughts regarding it. Her music still stands up and I can't wait for her to get her due properly.

I'm not sure what these other reviewers were smoking, but Jagged was great. There. I said it.

I was 18 when I first heard Alanis play on the radio, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. I'm 45 now.

This nostalgic trip back to when music was music, when artist still experimented, when life was care free, Apartheid had just ended, and we were all brimming with hope for a future - made me reminisce on how great it was to be alive.

Artists were artists - today, we have studio groomed performers singing unfeeling songs created from dead templates that corporations mass feed to the public.

Everyone is encouraged to be unique as long as everyone is the same.

If there was no Alanis, there wouldn't be an Adele, a Joan Osborne, a Tracy Bonham, etc. She revolutionised the male dominated industry by giving it a massive middle finger.

I remember how she popped out of nowhere. I recall the rumours - from her being a former adult movie actress to men that wrote the songs for her.

This vid corrects everything and sets the past straight.

Her voice was unique, her stage presence persona was unfake, her music is timeless and her personality real... and if you didn't like it, then go listen to Jim Reeves, you pretentious tonsil. Every major female artist today have traits copied from the original.

The previous generation was one of strength.

Gen X was one without fear - like Alanis.

And this show reminds you of that.

It started off so well then the #metoo movement high jacked it (which Alanis didn't sign up for) and it turned quickly into a how bad men are in the industry. Myself as a male in the nineties absolutely loved the album and still listen to it a lot to this day! She paved the way for women (and men) to make these kind of songs. She is, and always will be a trailblazer and unbelievably great addition to the music industry. She was exactly what was needed after the Nirvana grunge era and Taylor Hawkins going to the Foo Fighters just proves it. She's the type of person that you would love to have a drink & a discussion about music with.

Great doco, and nothing salacious about it. Could have gone much deeper but still worth a watch. No doubt there will be loads of blokes saying it's boring because it wasn't salacious enough - so watch it for feminism's sake ;-)