In a last-ditch attempt to regain some of her initial commercial success, Alanis has re-recorded her 30-million selling Jagged Little Pill as an acoustic album. ‘Hand In My Pocket’ is the first fruits of such an uncalled for exercise, and it sounds like the sort of terrible cover version you’d hear on something like You’re A Star.
Weak and altogether tame, it’s ripped of any of the power, venom or angst that attracted us to Jagged Little Pill in the first place. For Morissette’s sake let's hope this is forgotten as rapidly as her recent work.