Alanis Morissette has been slammed a “bully” amid a surprising lawsuit accusing the music star of taking credit score for her well-known album Jagged Little Tablet.
Plaintiff Joseph Michael Hunt claims he helped write the vastly profitable 1995 album and obtained no credit score in any respect, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Amid his lawsuit, Hunt informed RadarOnline.com: “Alanis has been requested for years to return my mental properties. She hasn’t…”
He continued: “Alanis offered her soul way back… My opinion of her is she is a gifted bully…”
Jagged Little Tablet is formally credited as being written by Morissette and songwriter Glen Ballard, who additionally produced the album.
In response to court docket paperwork, Hunt first filed his grievance in opposition to Epiphany Productions Inc and Morissette in November 2024, with summons issued to the defendants quickly after.
The summons went unanswered for months, because the defendants requested the lawsuit to be dismissed on January 29.
We’ve reached out to Morissette’s rep for remark.
The singer’s third album – one of many greatest of the 90s – is understood for a lot of tracks together with You Oughta Know, a music followers consider to have been written about Morissette’s ex-boyfriend, and Full Home star, Dave Coulier.
Within the music, Morissette sings: “Did you neglect about me, Mister Duplicity?/I hate to bug you in the course of dinner/It was a slap in my face how shortly I used to be changed/Are you pondering of me whenever you f— her?”
Whereas many theories of who the Canadian pop star was raging about have been urged, solely the hypothesis it’s about Coulier has had probably the most legs.
In an interview in 1995, Morissette confirmed the observe is about an ex, however did not reveal any title.
She mentioned on the time: “I have not heard from him, and I do not suppose he is aware of. Which kind of says lots about him.
“The ironic factor is, if anyone questions whether or not it is them I am writing about, which means one thing in and of itself. Individuals who have been sort and sincere and filled with integrity all through the method of constructing this album would not query whether or not they have been in that music as a result of they’d know.”
Years later, Coulier even responded to listening to the music for the primary time, and absolutely believed it was about him.
He recalled on SiriusXM Faction Discuss’s Jim Norton & Sam Roberts: “I am like, wow, it is a actually cool hook. After which I begin listening to the voice. I am like, wow, this woman can sing. And I had no thought, , that this was the file.”
The comedian continued: “After which I used to be listening to the lyrics going, ‘Ooh, oh no! Oh, I can not be this man…’ There was quite a lot of acquainted stuff in there that her and I had talked about. Like, ‘Your shake is sort of a fish.’ I would go, ‘Hey, useless fish me,’ and we might do that useless fish handshake.
“And so I began listening to it and I believed, ‘Ooh, I feel I’ll have actually harm this girl.’ That was my first thought.”
In response to Coulier, the previous pair “reconnected” years later and hashed it out.
Morissette has but to verify if the observe is about Coulier.
Others widespread songs on the album embody Hand in My Pocket, Ironic, and You Be taught.