DIABLO CODY ON THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE

I can remember the exact moment when I first heard Alanis Morissette’s music.

Honestly, in retrospect, it’s kind of crazy that I remember it, because I listened to so much music as a teenager. I was 15 and sitting in my bedroom in Chicago listening to the radio. The DJ said: “I’m about to play a song, and I think it’s going to blow people’s minds.” I was surprised – this was a big corporate radio station and they didn’t usually talk about the music. I thought: ‘I gotta hear this.’ And that song was You Oughta Know.

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