Alanis Morissette

Released: April 6, 1991

Songwriter: Leslie Howe Alanis Morissette

Producer: Leslie Howe

[Verse 1]
My name is Alanis
I'm a white chick singer
The drums are smoking and so's the bass
Shake your thing
When you sing
Just sixteen
No disco queen
Oh yeah

I'm a white chick singer, I've seen the world
I've got a lesson for you, I'm your teacher girl
Two words you'll be hearing will shake the earth
So repeat after me, no need to be rehearsed

[Chorus]
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

[Verse 2]
My name is Alanis, I'm just sixteen
So please give me a break, I'm no disco queen
Just hear what I'm saying, you don't want to miss
I got a message for you and it goes like this

[Chorus]
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

[Bridge]
Ride my train
Go insane
Your teacher girl
Rules your world

[Verse 3]
Don't overdo it when you shake your thing
'Cause you'll be going insane when you start to sing
Without special training an amateur
Could be a casualty case if they sing these words

[Chorus]
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

Oh yeah

[Verse 4]
The drums are a-smoking and so's the bass
They keep on pumping a groove and it'll melt your face
Come on everybody and blow your mind
Because you'll never escape these two words of mine

Alanis Nadine Morissette was born on June 1, 1974, in Ottawa, Canada. At age 6, she began taking piano lessons, and by the time she was 9, she was writing her own songs.

When she was 11, Morissette joined the cast of a Nickelodeon children’s show called You Can’t Do That on Television, and saved up her earnings. In 1987, she used them to self-release her first track, “Fate Stay With Me.” The song caught the attention of record label MCA Canada; at age 14, Morissette signed a contract with the company. She released a self-titled album, Alanis, in 1991, which went platinum. Quickly following up the success of her first album, Morissette released Now Is The Time a year later, though it did not reach the same level of popularity.

In 1994 Morissette moved to Los Angeles teamed up with industry veteran Glen Ballard, and she began to approach songwriting more organically.

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