“You Oughta Know” was sung from the perspective of a woman who’d been dumped by her partner and needed her ex to realize just how much pain the breakup had inflicted. The plot wasn’t original, but the details were rich and disarmingly explicit. One of Morissette’s rhetorical questions was whether the man’s new girlfriend was willing to perform oral sex inside a movie theater. The implication was not unclear—this question was being posed as a reminder of something Morissette herself had done when they were still a couple. It was too specific to be a metaphor. “Are you thinking of me when you
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