Dave Coulier Talks About The Time He Discovered Alanis Morissette’s ‘You Oughta Know’ Was About Him
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Dave Coulier was in the television shows Full House and Fuller House. He also knows what house he was in with singer Alanis Morissette – the doghouse.
Coulier talked earlier this week about the scathing lyrics of Morissette’s major hit “You Oughta Know,” which told of her heartbreak caused by a breakup with a former lover after a two-year relationship. The song was part of the 10-million plus selling Jagged Little Pill, and spawned the biggest music industry speculation since Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain.”
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He was driving in Detroit when he first heard the song on the radio, Coulier said on Jim Norton & Sam Roberts, a SiriusXM show on the Faction Talk channel. Coulier says he was really enjoying the song before his “Hey, wait a minute” moment, when he recognized the singer’s voice. “Ooh, oh no! Oh, I can’t be this guy!” he claims he thought.
Coulier raced to a record store and bought the album. He then sat in his car and listened to it.
“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.”
The Morissette-Coulier romance started in 1992, when she was 18 and he was 33. They broke up two years later, and Morissette’s album came out a year after the split.
Morissette has not revealed who the song is about.
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