However, there’s another famous Joey who has denied and confirmed he’s the muse. It could even be Matt LeBlanc - yes, Joey from Friends - who appeared in Morissette’s music video “Walk Away” in 1991. Who are those six people though? It could be Mike Peluso, who was a hockey player for the New Jersey Devils. “But I think I was really just devastated when I wrote that and it’s a lot easier to siphon that through anger sometimes.” You can’t be anything… Just squish it all down,” she said. “For women sometimes, we’re told we can’t be angry we can’t be sad and we can’t be…17 other feelings. She also said “devastation” was a major emotion she felt as she wrote it.
She has quite the point Morissette went on to say that if anyone was going to take credit, why do it on a track where she’s going on about how much of an “*sshole” they are. I’m thinking, I don’t know if you want to take credit for being the person I wrote ‘You Oughta Know’ about.” “No revealing,” Morissette said after being asked who it was about, “but I am intrigued at the thought-or at the fact-that more than one person has taken credit for it. In December, Morissette appeared on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen and shared that not one, but six people have “taken credit” for being the subject of “You Oughta Know,” according to E!. Alanis Morisette said that 6 people have claimed to be the subject of the song It also has the glorious line, “And are you thinking of me when you f*ck her?” Again, rage singing is a must when this song comes on, even 25 years later. If you need a refresher, “You Oughta Know” famously talks about doing explicit activities in a theater and a lot about sex. Thanks to that boost from the station, the explicit lyrics got the attention of listeners and it became a hit. However, when a prominent radio station - KROQ-FM - played “You Oughta Know,” it changed the trajectory of the single and Morissette’s album.
The album came out a little less than a month earlier, and was a “slow burn” with sales and enthusiasm, as Salon called it.
“You Oughta Know” debuted on July 7, 1995, as the lead single off of her well-known album Jagged Little Pill. RELATED: Alanis Morissette Says Music Industry Needs a #MeToo Movement for ‘Ubiquitous’ Predatory Behavior 18, 1995 | Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Alanis Morissette performing on stage during the KROQ 6th annual Almost Acoustic Christmas Concert on Dec.