You don't want to be Alanis Morissette's ex-boyfriend. Boyfriends - and men in general - take a drubbing in her best-selling album "Jagged Little Pill." Watch it, pal, you may wind up as an angry lyric.The record has become one of the top debuts of any artist in history, is a modern classic of angst-rock, and has been taken to heart by millions. But that hasn't prevented organizations like FOAMS - the Federation to Obliterate Alanis Morissette Songs - from forming on the Internet.
Morissette, who just turned 20 when "Pill" was released, has been writing songs since she was 9. Originally from Ottawa, she spent her early years living alone in a Toronto Catholic girls school.
"Most of these songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself: there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated," she says. "I wrote some of the songs and woke up the next day not even remembering I'd done them."
Make up your own mind about Alanis' tunes. She's playing Saturday afternoon at Richardson Field, Pearl Harbor, where there's a spectacular view of the causeway being built to Ford Island.
When: Gates open at 1 p.m. Saturday