I am taking the advantage of spending my time at home catching up on some TV shows that I have missed over the past few years. Since 2016 I have spend many evenings out working on productions with my local Community Theaters. As photographer, stage manager and even on a couple of shows as a part of the cast.
Even with it being called one of the best shows on TV, one of the shows I have missed is “This is Us”. I am now nearly finished season 2, and I have to agree it’s an amazing show telling the story of the Pearson’s. Even not watching it, there has been parts of the story I knew from reading about it. But there has been a lot of heart touching items that has hit me like the proverbial ‘lead ballon’.
Last night I watched the episode when Jack and Kate discussed music. Kate was off to a record store to see Alanis Morrisette. An musical artist that spoke to her through the album “Jagged Little Pill.” Of course her father, Jack, was into Bruce Springsteen and couldn’t get into it.
It took me back to the mid-90’s. My favorite period of is the 70’s, which I think would be the same for Jack. At that time I was busy living live, and not doing really listening to much music of that period, and when I did it was usually County Music. Tanya Tucker has been a long time favorite and I was enjoying Garth Brooks.
The Grammy Awards was one of the Award Shows I still always watched. By that time there were many artists nominated that I didn’t know. One of them was Alanis Morrisette and her Grammy nominated Album “Jagged Little Pill”.
When she performed “You Oughta Know”, I was blown away. After she won Four Awards that night, ironically she didn’t win the award for New Artist, that went to Hootie & the Blowfish, I had to hear more. The next day on my way home from work I purchase the CD. This was a time when music could only be heard on the radio, seen on MTV (when they were still playing music) or buying the CD.
I wasn’t a young girl, nor a young man. I was approaching 40. But I loved the album. I actually credit the album as the one that brought me back to listening to Pop music again.
Here is that Grammy Award performance. The arrangement is a bit different than the album version. And the best one that I have seen.