Dave Coulier Recalls Hearing Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” for First Time
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Full House star Dave Coulier began dating Alanis Morissette in 1992 when she was 18 and he was 33. They broke up in 1994, and in 1995 he pulled over after hearing “You Oughta Know” on the radio, saying to himself, “‘Ooh, I think I may have really hurt this woman.’”
Coulier replayed his first reaction to the song during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk. “We dated, and she was writing all that Jagged Little Pill stuff during that time. And I never saw this ‘angry white girl’ thing that people have kind of coined her as. I never saw that. She was funny, she was sweet, she was super intelligent, super talented.”
But he began to question how she had felt about the relationship after they broke up. “I’m driving in Detroit and I’ve got my radio on, and I hear the hook for ‘You Oughta Know’ come on the radio. I’m like, ‘Wow this is really cool hook.’ And then I start hearing the voice, I’m like, ‘Wow, this girl can sing.’ I had no idea this was the record. And then I was listening to the lyrics, going, ‘Ooh, oh no! Oh, I can’t be this guy!'”
He continued, “I went to the record store, bought the CD, and I went and I parked on the street and I listened to the whole record. There was a lot of familiar stuff in there that her and I had talked about,” Coulier said. “Like [in ‘Right Through You’] ‘your shake is like a fish.’ I’d go, ‘Hey, dead fish me,’ and we’d do this dead-fish handshake. And so I started listening to it and I thought, ‘Ooh, I think I may have really hurt this woman.’ And that was my first thought.”
Regardless of how she felt at the time, there are no lingering hard feelings. “Years later we reconnected and she couldn’t have been sweeter. I said, ‘What do you want me to say when people ask me about this relationship?’ And she said, ‘You can say whatever you want.’ So she was really sweet about it, she was kind.
“I’ll tell you the kind of person she is,” he added. “When my sister Sharon was dying with cancer, Alanis was living in Toronto, my sister was in Detroit. She actually drove to Detroit with her guitar and sat with my sister, playing songs and singing with my sister in my hospital.
“That’s the kind of human being she is. So I’ve never had anything bad to say about her. She’s lovely.” Check out the interview below.
For her part, Morissette has never confirmed the inspiration for the song. But in 2019, she did tell Entertainment Online, “I am intrigued at the thought — or at the fact — that more than one person has taken credit for it. I’m thinking, I don’t know if you want to take credit for being the person I wrote ‘You Oughta Know’ about.”
She added, “I just think: If you’re going to take credit for a song where I’m singing about someone being a douche or an asshole, you might not want to say, ‘Hey! That’s me!’”
It’s also possible that the anger behind “You Oughta Know” began developing years before Morissette met Coulier. Last year, she revealed that she had been sexually assaulted by multiple men at the age of 15.
Morissette recently kicked off the “Jagged Little Pill” tour celebrating 25 years — now 27 years (thanks COVID-19) — of the classic album. Tickets are available here.
Dave Coulier Recalls Hearing Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” for First Time
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