Awwwwww - I was so hoping you guys would do the LIVE version - which will absolutely BLOW you away - with the full orchestra. Please check it out on your own - well worth a listen. But very glad to see you cover this song - it's one of her very best. Hauntingly beautiful.
The studio version is very good - but the LIVE version is PHENOMINAL. Please check it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FjTB6EG3xGo.html
Epic is correct... Alanis' best song I feel... this song evokes all kinds of emotions and imagery, but when it reaches it's intense crescendo it almost has Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' vibe, it's cinematic in it's scope.
If you’re doing movies as well, you may want to watch the movie this song came from: City of Angels with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan. The soundtrack is actually better than the movie.
Memory: best friend & I saw this at the dollar theatres. When this movie ended, no one in the audience moved and spoke for a good minute. We were all stunned.
There's a haunting motif stressed by three notes: G, B flat, and B. And then when the orchestra kicks in, you get this Arabian/Egyptian vibe. Very DISSONANT TENSION!!!
Which notes are you referring to? You can't mean that 4 note pattern on the piano that repeats throughout the song? Because then you'd mean Eb Bb B and Bb, assuming your Bb and B are correct, which let's just assume they are. Not having perfect pitch, I can't tell what key this is in just by listening, I only have relative pitch. Or did you mean 3 other notes? Just curious, not attacking. Cheers!
The whole song is influenced by Eastern/Indian music. Not just the strings, but also the percussion (Indian tabla) and the verse melody, second verse in particular. This was the first song Alanis released after her trip to India, and the influence is clear.
@@rpvee another song from Alanis with the eastern/arabic/indian vibe is the end track to Prince of Persia "I remain". Another good one. Not as good as this one, which I adore, but also good. The soundtrack to Prince of Persia is actually pretty good overall.
All I kept saying was “don’t pause it right before the break, don’t pause it.” And Jay paused it. But so glad y’all reacted to this, favorite Alanis song for me!
My favorite Alanis song!👍 More Female Friday suggestions: Natalie Merchant (Carnival); Fiona Apple (Criminal); Edie Brickell (What I Am); and a more contemporary group, Our Native Daughters (Quesheba, Quesheba). 🎶
The City of Angels DOMINATED radio for a very long time on the strength of the and Iris from the Goo Goo Dolls. Those 2 songs really fit the movie like a glove.
I love you guys. My favorite Alanis song. It's so beautiful, so haunting, and it gives me goosebumps every time. I also hope you do "Thank U", which runs a close second. Some of my other faves (and I'm guessing I'm not alone) are "You Learn", "All I Really Want", and "Wunderkind" (from the first Chronicles of Narnia movie).
Yes!!!!! I think "Supposed former Infatuation Junkie" is a vastly underrated album. I think "Thank you" or "Baba" would be great songs for them to listen to next.
Thank you for reminding me about "Wunderkind". It is the last song as the credits ended. I'm a big CS Lewis fan and my oldest daughter read all 7 of the Narnia books and we had discussions adout the books compared to the movies. It lead to doing the same with Harry Potter, Hunger Games etc.... The best part of being a father is watching their ideas and opinions develope. .
💕 such a great song! I'm with everyone else on the live version at the Grammy's, it's memorable for sure. We thought so much of her voice back in the day there was a movie called Dogma that cast her as God, a role in which she doesn't speak a word! Happy Female Friday💚🌻 J... Your Love of violin reminds me to tell you again about Lindsey Stirling! You guys will adore her, she's a fairy who dances ballet at the same time as playing violin, check out her collab with Halestorm's Lzzy Hale..Shatter Me, it's really beautiful!💕🌟🦋
I hate to pick a favourite Alanis Morissette song, but this would likely come out on top for me, the clash of her beautiful voice against the creepy agitated music I think is what does it, it's a masterful piece of music.
Listen to the song again with the knowledge its about an angel falling in love with a human. Lines like "flattered by your fascination with me" and "you speak of love like you've experienced love like mine before"
Creepy stalker song. Her power and the way she directs her voice is simply amazing and for me, the layering during the harmonies is just incredible. Listen close to the notes she is hitting there. That's hella range.
Funny, I never got the stalker angle. I always took it as she 'simply wanted an object to crave'... something physical and temporary. And then the person got inside her head 'uninvited' and she began to have deeper feelings for them. Like she just wanted sex, but found a person she really now cares for, and has to deal with those feelings.
NO, no no. This song is written from a biographical POV of an angel with whom a human has fallen in love. They are warning them that it is unethical and possibly a sin.
She wrote it for a movie with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage about an Angel choosing to fall to Earth for love. It plays at the pivotal and most tragic scene in the entire film. It is PERFECTION! And, won the Oscar for best song that year. She performed it live on the Oscar's that year. She KILLED IT!
The movie was City of Angels. Alanis didn't win the Oscar for Uninvited. She wasn't even nominated (neither was Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls). She was nominated for a Golden Globe for this song.
This is one of my all time favorite songs. You could react to the movie "City of Angels". It's got an awesome soundtrack as you already know and the movie is a classic in my opinion. Meg Ryan and Nicolas Cage. Fantastic reaction.
I agree with Jay. This is my absolute favorite song by Alanis. I’m not sure if at this point Taylor Hawkins - RIP (Foo Fighters) was still her drummer. Thank you Amber for the excellent choice of artist and song. Maybe in a future Female Friday you can react to Tori Amos, song suggestions are “Silent all these years”, “Crucify” and my personal favorite is “Winter”. Great reaction. Thank you!
I was fortunate enough to see her last year. It was an Anniversary for Jagged Little Pill that had been postponed due to Covid the year before. It was excellent with Garbage opening. That's another one that you should check out. Shirley Manson has an excellent voice.
No she says she’s simply wanted an object to crave. The song was specifically written for the movie- and it makes perfect sense. The movie is about an angel (nic cage) who falls in love with a human doctor (Meg ryan) and their love affair. ❤️
I rarely recommend live versions, especially for first listens. but her performance of this at the Grammys was jaw dropping, IMO. And, good job killing the mood of the music by your ill-timed pauses, and NEVER running it back when you do!
Explain how you're supposed to know when to pause it when you're listening to a song you've never heard before. I'll wait. Plus, I don't know RU-vid's rules, but I'm under the impression that if you play a song straight through without pausing, you're far more likely to get blocked. One alternative that some reactors use is to blur or grey out the video itself, but R&A choose not to do that.
A young Alanis after years in a student teacher love affair understanding what kind of toxic, predatory relationship she was in putting a stop to it all. She sends him a note " uninviting" this teacher to her graduation party. That note was then put to music and expanded upon. It is raw and real. She is just so amazing! Love your reactions 💙🧡
Was hoping you’d do the live performance (it was either the Oscars or Grammys). That was so much more impactful and emotional if you can believe it. Please give it a shot. Well worth the time.
Her first hit was a pop song...very in keeping with the times. "Too Hot". Feeling she wasn't in control of the way she wanted her career to go...she "took over" and created the musical career that fit her writing style. Another Canadian musical wonder. 😉
Alanis started out on a kid show "You Can't Do That on Television". When she was 19 she dated Dave Coulier from "Full House". Rumer was Morissette wrote “You Oughta Know” about him. She said she will not confirm that .... maybe one day.
I think it was confirmed by Coulier himself. Specifically he remembered "I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner" really happening when she called him during a dinner party. Again, I think it was him but it might have been her. Either way one of them said that actually did happen
Great song by a great Canadian artist! Other Canadians to consider: kd lang - Hallelujah (same song that Pentatonix did, but her version is SERIOUSLY haunting) Sass Jordan - Make You A Believer Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel Loreena McKennitt - The Mummer's Dance (kinda like Celtic WOmen) The Headpins - Don't It Make Ya Feel (a rocker, kinda like listening to Joan Jett)
@@mamatay7 Glad to know that I am not its only fan. It is too bad that Cowboy Junkies are known really only for that song, since they have released 20+ albums full of great tunes!
Yo guys made my Friday 😂😂😂 I was waiting for months for you guys to do this song! When you did Ironic I was super happy but this is my favorite song by her. She’s so ridiculously talented, and as others said in comments, her live version of this is amazing as well☺️☺️☺️ Thank you for doing this.
Great song! Love Alanis! I'd describe her voice in general as piercing but in this song it is quite chilling. She's definitely my favorite female artist of the nineties and maybe even all time.
Started as a Canadian young pop singer. She was hurt by relationship, faded for bit. Her Album, "Jagged Little Pill " was her coming out as a grown woman. She took control. Completely different from her earlier work. She addressed the pain
Such a great song. I highly recommend doing another reaction to this song where she performs it Live at the Grammys. Powerful and haunting performance.
this song has always made me incredibly sad and ache for 'that' love that makes you just keen.... and the movie *City Of Angels* was a movie that made me ugly cry
Alanis has a twin brother named Wade. He is also a singer, musician, yoga instructor & author. I took one of his yoga classes once years ago & he was amazing. I have several of his "CDs" from years ago, but he really is great.
@@davinaburden7529 I know this is late but I HATE misinformation: Morissette discussed writing “Uninvited” for City of Angels. “I had been going through something at the time that I wanted to write about and I saw a screening of the movie and it applied very much to the lead characters,” she recalled. “I think it was as simple as that really. I just wrote it and I didn’t really think about it. I knew that I didn’t want it to be a single. I just wanted it to be part of the movie and it was.” She wrote it FOR the movie based on the movie and personal experience.
Well its not really Misinformation is it.. The personal thing she was going through was a crazy stalker... So when she wrote the song for the film that was what she was drawing from 🙄
@@davinaburden7529 Stop trying to save face. You were PROVEN wrong and now you are trying to gaslight everyone. She never had a stalker that she spoke of publicly. If you can find me a shred of proof, post it. I will wait for the links to the interviews where she spoke of this...
