Oozing Angst, Lacking Talent

The song that I have to agreed to disagree with was posted by Anna Shoemaker. In her sixth blog post, she wrote about the “pop” song “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette. It’s not that the song is really bad, it is actually decent once it picks up tempo and goes into the chorus but the timbre of this woman’s voice makes my skin crawl. Something about the sound of those first opening words ruin the entire song for me. First of all, I have to disagree with the catagorization of this song as “pop” music. This song was actually Morissette’s first rock song after her transition from performing pop music. Secondly, I have to disagree that this song has transcended generations in any sense. It was made twenty years ago and our generation has already forgotten all about Morissette, replacing her with thousands of new artists who have released a plethora of break-up songs in the last few years alone. Luckily the amount of angst has been toned down in music today and the amount of soul has been increased drastically. Lastly, even thought this song song isn’t pop, it is definitely ephemeral.