Of course, the sing-alongs to “Ironic” and “You Oughta Know” were wholly encompassing, an enormous unified sound for money lines “It’s like rain on your wedding day” and “I’m here to remind you.”īut what was perhaps more interesting was what played from the PA just a few minutes before Morissette took the stage. “This is my first wave of my white flag / This is the sound of me hitting bottom / This, my surrender, if that’s what you call it / In the anatomy of my crash / And I keep on smiling.” The best new tune, however, was her poignant ballad “Smiling,” written for the Broadway production, which details the trials of mental health and societal expectations to simply grin, grit and bear it. Morissette is now a 47-year-old mother of three, who celebrated her children with the new track “Ablaze,” which dedicates a different chorus to each kid and was backed by sweet home videos on the big screen. Soon after she was spinning in place, head-banging her long blonde locks and falling to her knees like she was again 19 years old. It was truly a clinic as Morissette stalked the large stage, back and forth, over and over, rarely looking into the crowd, singing like no one was there, hammering the harmonica for her solos on “All I Really Want” and “Hand in My Pocket,” both early singalongs.Īs the impassioned “Pill” closer “Wake Up” wrapped up, she strapped on a black sequin guitar to finish the song with a hurtling jam. It speaks to her enduring power, that she can position the mic in such a way and still send her voice soaring over a five-piece band and 20,000 people.
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In those moments, she held the microphone a full arm’s length from her lips, farther than any artist I’ve seen. I can name on one hand vocalists who’ve taken such pristine care of their instrument.įor “Pill” album tracks “Forgiven,” “Perfect” and “Mary Jane,” Morissette reached and held notes so loud and so long they bordered on inhumanity, like a magic trick requiring suspension of disbelief. The artist spoke little to the South Jersey crowd beyond requisite thank-yous, saving her breath for a bevy of towering belts and idiosyncratic yodel-runs, all as crystalline as they were two and a half decades ago.
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Over 90 minutes, a joyful yet highly concentrated Morissette surged through all 12 original “Pill” tracks, plus later minor hits and a few cuts from her 2020 LP “Such Pretty Forks in the Road,” her first album in eight years.
Instead, the incomparable Canadian singer did what she’s always done - let her music do the talking. Morissette could’ve spent half her Thursday set at Camden’s BB&T Pavilion unpacking the origins of “You Oughta Know,” little-known tidbits about “Ironic,” or feelings toward her 1995 record spurring a new hit Broadway musical, also called “Jagged Little Pill,” which is currently nominated for 15 Tony Awards (delayed from 2020, as was this concert tour). In this case, it was 25 years of “Jagged Little Pill,” Alanis Morissette’s seminal global debut, a titanic work of alt-rock angst and an unlikely mainstream conqueror - still the second-best-selling solo female album of all-time (behind Shania Twain’s “Come On Over”). Typically, an anniversary concert tour is accompanied - and sometimes overburdened - by a hefty dose of artist chitchat, commemorating the night’s album of honor.
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