Throwback: Happy 52nd Birthday, Alanis Morisette!

We’ve made it halfway through 2026 y’all. And for my friends, readers and dearest ones in the LGQBTIA+ community: Happy Pride!

June is a busy month for birthdays.

Alanis Morisette celebrates her 52nd birthday today.

If you came of age in the 90s or are a child of the 90s, knowing that may make you start to feel old, because we’re all getting old. How did that happen? How? 

Jagged Little Pill was a revelation for many young women — and it’s really a fucking fantastic album with a ton of smash hits that we all know. And for a good run of the late 90s and early 2000s, Morissete was among the most commercially and critically successful female artists of that period. 

Happy belated birthday, Alanis! May there many, many more! 

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