This is a song that was scheduled for Maple Leaf March and got bumped for a lesser known artist. I still wanted to share it with you, though, so I saved it. I didn't want it to wait until March. The song is good on its own, and doesn't need to be Canadian to be good.
By the time the fifth single from the album Jagged Little Pill, this song, was released, a lot of people thought they knew what to expect from Alanis Morrissette.
Boy, were people way off base.
The video itself is a closeup of Alanis's face, never changing focus no matter how much she moves. But, really, given how bankable she was at that point, her face was all MTV needed to make this a huge hit song, hitting #1 on the pop chart in the US and also becoming her first #1 adult contemporary song. It would also be one of the biggest hits of the year in her native Canada.
The song is considered to be one of the first pop culture uses of the term "friend with benefits". I don't know about that, but I do consider it to be a sweet - one of the sweetest ever written - soft song that still resonates a quarter century later.
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