Throwback Thursday: Alanis Morissette – “Hands Clean”
Today is Alanis Morissette’s 49 to birthday, and while she is arguably in possession of a few Grammys she doesn’t deserve, a good song is a good song — and the ‘90s rocker has made a few.
It was too tempting to make “Ironic” today’s pick — it is, after all, her signature hit. However, the shining star in her catalog is her 2002 single, “Hands Clean.”
Released as the lead single from her fifth album, Under Rug Swept, the song is a retelling of an inappropriate (and illegal) relationship she had with an adult man when she was a teenager. It isn’t a new topic for the singer — “You Oughta Know” is also about a problematic relationship. While she has never named the boyfriend in question, it’s assumed that these songs are all about the same question. And in a move that can only be described as an odd choice, Full House star has basically outed himself as the subject.
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