Alanis Morissette - “Hands Clean" from the album ‘Under Rug Swept’
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LYRICS
If it weren't for your maturity none of this would have happened
If you weren't so wise beyond your years I would've been able to control myself
If it weren't for my attention you wouldn't have been successful and
If it weren't for me you would never have amounted to very much
Ooh this could be messy
But you don't seem to mind
Ooh don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime
We'll fast forward to a few years later
And no one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this
You're essentially an employee and I like you having to depend on me
You're a kind of my protégé and one day you'll say you learned all you know from me
I know you depend on me like a young thing would to a guardian
I know you sexualize me like a young thing would and I think I like it
Ooh this could get messy
But you don't seem to mind
Ooh don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime
We'll fast forward to a few years later
And no one knows except the both of us
I've more than honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept?
What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
What with this distance it seems so obvious?
Just make sure you don't tell on me especially to members of your family
We best keep this to ourselves and not tell any members of our inner posse
I wish I could tell the world cause you're such a pretty thing when you're done up properly
I might want to marry you one day if you watch that weight and keep your firm body
Ooh this could be messy and
Ooh I don't seem to mind
Ooh don't go telling everybody
And overlook this supposed crime
"I have honored your requests for silence." - I love that line.
my beautiful
Ela sofreu pedófila, não significa uma coisa boa não 😢
20 years ago maybe when this came out? Havent looked it up for years. Still pretty good in 2024🎉 whos listening now!!!
I just thought about it too!!!! timeless classic
If you search this song by yourself you're a legend ☺️✨
Thanks Iam a legend
Alanis Morissete, I know you will probably never see this comment, but you have saved my life. You are an inspiration
And 💎 diamond 💎 , you are an inspiration, and you are saving life...
We see you❤️
anyone else wish they could hear this song for the first time again?
I see you in the comments of all the good music. Excellent taste in music 🙂
@@joshuavgc4160 aaaaqqà
Me
@@cese2024 🤟🏼
It was my first time. Or at least I don't remind from 15 years ago...
Still listening/watching in 2024! Who's with me?
❤
listening on repeat!
Me😃
🙃
Here!!!😂
This song so perfectly captures the pain of being a teenage girl that is exploited. Nearly a decade before the me-too moment, Alanis was so ahead of her time
Yes but Alanis had an edge over her older lover. She was not a victim.
I guess her parents should have taught her better, when she was a child. I know I would have, WATCH OUT FOR DEVIANT PEDO MONSTERS!!
You're unwell
@@loristoneking5711 she was a kid.
Beautiful song 🙌🥹 wonderful memories 🥹🙌 Greetings From Argentina 🇦🇷🙌
I wonder......alanis cant sleep....does she log on and read comments at 4am while eating left over pizza in her downtime. I often wonder if she realises at all or how much she spoke to an entire generation of pre emo people. How much her art resonates still to this day......alanis if its 4am and youre eating cold pizza just know youre a poet xo
yes to all of this!!!
Never thought about it, but I love the idea completely now lol 🥱🍕🤳😄
Wtf I'm was jus eating pizza
@@okiguess8103 what kind of pizza?
@@tobyargall8202 pepperoni and beef
I was one of those teenagers singing along to this radio hit back then, not understanding. Alanis, I understand now and I’m sorry. Thank you for sharing your story and art.
Same here... I was a VERY sheltered 14-year old when this album came out (2002), and while I LOVED that album overall (and it holds up incredibly well, to tis day) - the lyrics to this particular just flew over my head, and while it's obviously a blessing that it wasn't something I could instantly relate to and understand back then... I'm also sad that I didn't understand what she was really trying to say. I also didn't have cable TV (and KZhead didn't exist until 2006, for any younger gens reading this lol), so I also didn't see the music video until Covid happened - which I'm sure would've opened my eyes a bit more to how dark the song actually was... but because I didn't see that, I just didn't "get" the song - in fact, I remember feeling weirded out about it because I took the song at face-value and thought she was singing from her own pov about a relationship with a younger man (I didn't pick up on the p*do implications in the song, so I thought she was singing about some younger man in a more... really creepy, shallow, immature, power-dynamic-sounds-like-a-lawsuit-about-to-happen kind of way that still made me wildly uncomfortable all on its own), which VERY much confused me because that _seemed_ so out-of-character for her...? But, yeah... the backstory and real meaning of the song was just totally lost on HS freshmen me, unfortunately, so I almost always skipped this song... I feel really bad about how I misinterpreted that song (and, by extension, her character) now, even though I was wise enough to kept those _very_ unverified assumptions to myself (in fact, this is the first time I've ever said any of that to literally anyone). Literally 20 years later and finally knowing what I know about it now, this song is *_incredibly_* well done.
@@ember-brandt I agree and I HAD seen the video back then! It’s amazing how our perspective changes with time. I finally got to see Alanis last summer and it meant the world to me.
You’re a big girl. Just say the word. “Pedophile.”
Me too! I remembered this song yesterday and I used to sing it back then…but now I know what this is about now and damn :/
It’s too late for sorry duckies. Alanis wants compensation. Oh the disrespect
I've been in this type of relationship at 15, he was 45. I survived, Thanks for being autobiographical, Alanis ❤
15-45??? 😱 what even makes anybody do that..?
@@tylerp3327Hormones my genius. Hormones.
I feel you…my 1st, I was 15 he was 29. He still talks to me like a child when I have to deal with him because of our kids
@@tylerp3327ask the 45 year old!
This has to be my favourite Alanis song. I don’t care whatever anyone else has to say
This song helped me heal from my past trauma.
The greatest female artist off all time.
I have to agree
💯
That title is reserved for one lady only, Celine Dion
@@thedappercook maybe, but not the title of "best singer/songwriter/musician/fabulous freak of nature!
If you like her music, I recommend checking out Tori Amos as well!
Just heard this on the radio again after so long. How is it sooo good? ❤❤❤❤
😭
15 year old me absolutely understood the synopsis.thank you alanis. It happened to me too💐🫂
I loved this song back when it came out. I never paid too much attention to the lyrics when I heard it as a 16 year old, but now I'm definitely LISTENING. Her ability to write about really DARK subject matter and frame it with really light pop melodies is pretty unique. She's always so raw and honest.
Oh, hands clean, probably my favorite song of Alanis.
When I was younger, I just listened to this. Now that I'm older, I feel it.
If only I could tell you how much your comment hurt on me as well... Just hope that things may work out in your heart and your mind! Peace!
So very, very true.
Yes, I know exactly what you mean
Amen
When I was younger I knew I never wanted to feel it... I was right.
Masterpiece
Yeah, but the sound tech was not very masterful, horrible sound and it comes from the right channel mostly, terrible. Great song though..
Alanis, I always heard this song, but now I feel it. I feel really sad that you had to go through such suffering. If you ever read this: We wish you the best.
Alanis you fucking rock how fortunate I am to be alive when you are as well
Derek Rasmussen That is a fucking awesome compliment :D :D:D:D well done man! Well Done!
Fuck yeah dude your the man
Sorry guys I was like number 70 :/
As we get older, these songs get deeper and deeper. Enjoy the past :)
Pure nostalgia, a great song and a great artist!!!! Will we see anything resembling this ever again is the question I have.
EXACTLY
Agree.
Xoxo
yup..totally agree
So so proud she’s Canadian! Ya baby you rock 🤟
This song makes me feel alive,I need that.
In my opinion, the best song Alanis has ever written. More melodic, more mature, and certainly more poignant than "Right Through You" from Jagged Little Pill.
i mean, is that really true for you? Right Through You was a scathing no-holds-barred indictment, Hands Clean is a fairly passive-aggressive confession. it packs one of of my favorite punches, but i wouldn't view the latter to be more 'mature' than the former, psychologically speaking. screaming the monkey off your back certainly feels better than a decade of therapy about what you subtly slipped in under a pristine pop radar. the melody tho? oh god yes. i think Hands Clean is one of pop music's most underrated true gems.
I won't deny that the melody matched with the rhythm is incredibly catchy, but why is no one mentioning that this song is clearly about an older woman's relationship with a younger/underage boy? Lol
@@cloudambient cause it isn't? Its about a young girl and an older man.
@@jessicam8112 that's kinda interesting that we both listened to the same thing and had different reactions. I wonder why this is called art and not math?
She always has such strong messages in her songs.
If Just tell of your secret silence in brazil, if guy is a motherfucker
She's IMO a legend. I'm a black dude & she's the first white chick who had music I liked
Her first 3 albums are masterpieces. I live for all those 90s female singer/songwriters.
There are SO many great 90's women singer/songwriters. Now, it's mostly barren.
A song warning us how to look out for the predators of sexual abuse and harassment. And the psychological power games by the perpetrator on the victim.
I was a kid in the early 90’s but my Dad had her CD. And I’m here going on down memory lane.
This just hits so much harder now. Such grace.
damn, I can't imagine how much is difficult for her to repeat his words while singing in front of everyone... maybe it's like a therapy. A great songwriter and a strong woman.
Eu tb , como deve ser difícil, adoro ela
Magnifik
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Alanis has a way of connecting to us all with her beautiful voice!!! Sometimes we are silenced by the sheer recklessness of people in power and deemed liars or crazy when we speak up!!! But then along comes hands clean or uninvited and you understand automatically YOUR NOT THE ONLY ONE!!!
I growth up with this song. Why this lyrics so relate We'll fast forward to a few years later and And no one knows except the both of us I've more than honored your request for silence
Ive heard this for 20 years and never paid attention to the lyrics, its like hearing it for the first time.
For me this is still one of the greatest Songs about abuse. With this Song she gives many many people a voice.
She actually gives her abuser credit for what he had done for her & her career but at what cost??? Power can take away human decency I swear...
@@danagraslie5718 And, often, the true impact of the abuse may not manifest for many, many years!
@@scottlosey4978 This is very true...
@@scottlosey4978 Indeed. Alanis herself said in an interview that it took years of therapy to even admit that she was the victim of grooming and SA because she never wanted to feel like a victim. That shit is *hard* to come to terms with, let alone unpack and heal properly :/ 💚
This song is so sad and heartbreaking for real. I was so young and naive when this came out that I didn’t realise what it was really about.
me neither!!!!!! :o
Right?!? I had NO IDEA what this song was actually talking about when it camd out.
@@elizabethsnow8939 What is it about??
@@RealMonoid it’s about her relationship with an older man when she was 14. The song is from his perspective. Basically him grooming her.
@@Dwainegnd Cool, seems like a great way to become a rich pop star
♥♥♥2023 still listening ♥kisses and hug and love from Paris our princesse ALLANIS♥♥
Now, this is what music is supposed to be. Not cheap stuff pumped out by labels, that has no meaning.
A song written from the POV of an abuser.... the genius of this song.
Right!! Its insane but if it wernt it prob wouldn't b genius right..lol
Abusers come in male AND female.....#metoo in reverse so to say.. ....
@@SoberIrishman Yes indeed!
I wish I would have listened more closely to the words as a teenager 🥺
Alanis her voice is wonderful her music ( text) is fantastic and she is a beautiful lady Canadas special songwriterin all the time 👍👍👍👍👍👍😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍👍
I listened to this on the radio as a kid and never paid attention to the lyrics. Very sad and disturbing stuff. I would like to send my love and support to anyone who's endured any kind of abuse.
the level of genius this song reaches when you know the backstory and watch the music vid omg
this is such an underrated song from Alanis, typically overshadowed because of the success of jagged little pill.
Exactly!
So Meaningful Song in this Corona Era, : ) But I have listened to this beautiful song from a long time ago.
Thank you for showing Unconditional Love 💜
This song has helped me heal from my ex husband. He was 16 years older than and I loved him so much. He was abusive, and I kept it to myself until we divorced. I love her so much. Thank you for helping me heal, Alanis.
good luck
2024 ouvindo essa música q marcou minha adolescência!! 🇧🇷🇧🇷
A very sad part of the film and music industry. Love you Alanis and thank you for addressing this issue.
Happy 2024 Beautiful Alanis
For those interested, Alanis wrote this about a clandestine sexual relationship she had with her producer Leslie Howe from ages of 14-19. This was her way of healing, writing this song.
Yes you daid it better than i. She was in the #metoo long ago. Thank you for naming him.
I love the video because she's talking about the secret and showing the song being sent all over the world. Love the line "ohh this could get messy" (but she is exposing it regardless) I love it! I love her.
A more detailed story: It is about Alanis' relationship with her former manager, Leslie Howe. Alanis was 14 and he was 29. He manipulating her into thinking that if she slept with him, she would become famous. It lasted until she was 19. The verses are told from Leslie's perspective while the chorus is from Alanis' perspective.
I've looked into this. I haven't seen any confirmation, from her or anyone else, that Leslie Howe is the subject of the song. In fact, I haven't even been able to find anything tangential. At best, some people have speculated about it, but I have yet to see anything remotely resembling a concrete link. If I'm being frank, I could very well see it being him. It sounds perfectly plausible, and I wouldn't be surprised. That said, if you don't have anything more than conjecture, that's a pretty serious allegation to be making.
Are you sure she’s not talking about a friend of her father ?
I was one of those teens going through the same thing but not realizing what she was saying in this song. Brilliant song.
I love hearing true singer/songwriter’s. She’s amazing. I miss this time period in life.
This song does so much with only 3 chords repeated over and over.. the production is fantastic..
Profound expression of a unfortunate experience yet Eloquently sung
Something that I never noticed is that the voices from the verses sections (old guy- young woman) can be exchangable. Althought it seemed very obvious that is the voice of an older guy, I always listened as how the young girl saw herself as "powerful" at the moment. To me, it sounds like she is singing from her own "inmaturity", as how she felt that it was her giving him power. That, to me, give the chorus much more power and even a sarcastic tone of superiority. Damn, this is a killer song.
The title popped up on my KZhead, I recognize the title, but couldn’t remember the song. I forgot how great it was.
Alguém 2024 com bom gosto ai ?? 🎉
I always trip out how Chris Sarandon comes out and he’s the man she’s obviously singing about in the video. I know this song is probably more than 15 years old but he still looked super good for already have been in his late 60s here. Pretty cool. Great song
@@adarkershadeofrainbow7784 agreed 😂
I dont think listening to this as a girl, you understand what this song is about until later on in life. Thank you for your powerful and meaningful music! It's helped me more than a few times in my life.
Patje Yashara A married producer using his power in the music industry to take advantage of an underage girl
I literally was JUST thinking that. Wtf.
@@U0AO talk
@@jamesrainwater9742 😻👍🏼
Unfortunately some of us did understand what this was about when we were young.
Her most underrated song also happens to be her best
God bless Madame 🤝💪❤🙏 always stay strong...big hello from Serbia.😉
I love how her album titles are also her song lyrics.
This was her succesfull return to music after the 90s!
who else listened to this young knew it was about abuse, related, and continues to commiserate with it
I thought she was sleeping with someone's husband as a child and he was blaming it on her being pretty. As a young girl myself at the time, it didn't hit me that as a minor, that was rape.
This song has been with me for a long time. Thank you, A.
so much history that's under rug swept........please speak up....even when it's messy....and he washed his hands clean of this.....Love this song, thanks Alanis!!!
These lyrics are hard to sing at the speed that she sings them, and she does it with such clarity that all the words come out clearly and distinctly, on top of being an incredible lyricist. Her lung capacity must be unreal
Agree. I once sang this live and I was utterly terrified of mispronouncing the lyrics!
I secretly believe Alanis is the human embodiment of Terpsichore.
No one should be able to squeeze this many words into one line, but Alanis does it so seamlessly. Lyricists: Alanis you can't do that. Alanis: Watch me.
Unquestionable genius, now would tell her to shut up and go away and not come back? Thanks chief.
I think we didn't realize how much Alanis was a gem !
I can listen to this fabulous song again and again and again 🎉❤💃
You are the Angel 😇 n angles 2... Whatever you say YES!!... Alanis=Another Level 🎚️... Step 🪜 it up Other Earth 🌎 forms... I am waiting... Ty
i heard this song in 2002 for the first time, I was looking for many years, I did not know nothing about English. Today I found it and i very happy.
Take a look to Ablaze, it came out a couple of years ago. Totally worth the time.
The lyrics make me cry every time I listen to it.
My favourite Alanis song. Lyrically an emotional masterpiece.
Me too ! My favorite ❤
I’m loving this new (new to me) music video! Good for you!! I’ve loved your music my whole life!
I have be listening to Alanis from the beginning. She still owesome to this day. ❤ From UK 🇬🇧
Though Jagged is her best album, "Hands Clean" is definitely her best song.
I disagree, Wake Up is her best song
@@ankihansen2489 i disagree, Forgiven is her best song. 😉
@@jruberte Forgiven is definitely her best song. This is her second best.
Definitely. No question or debate. According to you.
@@ankihansen2489 ⁶ 0121
She’s so good a catchy bridges. So often bridges are an annoying distraction but hers almost always take everything a level up, and then usually come back in with a nice stop!
Nobody do it likes her nowadays.
So sad the lyrics but such an uplifting beat! Thank you Alanis!❤
This song and even video are just genius. How many of us see things like this happening in front of our face but still can't or won't see it.
I can't put into words how much I feel about this. I want to go into detail but I can't because this is not the platform And it's too personal to talk about. Men can be taken advantage of at a young age and never learn how to cope. This song helps me know I'm not alone.
You and avril L. Should do a duo. Humanity needs your strength.!
The line This Could Get Messy pretty much sums up Alanis' music, and that's a compliment!
Came here after watching her on "The Kelly Clarkson Show"... amazing x
I get chills at the brilliance of this song. Everytime that elevated chorus kicks in. ⭐️✨
The guitar *.*
@@trilionariobilionario3564 Absolutely. The whole vibe.
@@stevemrmusic9-zs7zs Yeah :)
Reminds me of good times.
I sort of always liked the mixed feelings this song gives me. It's so beautiful but with an unsettling story. Its so mixed up. I was madly in love with a girl for 10 years but I did get with her when she was a year underage and I was 2 years older. She was mature and smart and I get that part of the song but I knew it was still wrong.
By far, her greatest song.
You were right the whole time.
My favorite of hers... for sure. I just went to copy the link but I listened to the whole thing
She pulled no punches with these lyrics.
@@lucystoner I was like is this about Joey too so I googled it.... nope
the craftiest for sure
Sending prayers and loves to Alanis and the band of Foo Fighters and the family and crew ❤️🙏🏽😢🥁
GIGANTESQUE EXTRAORDINAIRE FABULEUX PRODIGIEUX !!!!!!!!!!!!! le plus grand talent d'écriture de ces 30 dernières années !!!!!!!!!!!!!! elle a littéralement révolutionné le Rock FM !!!!!!!! cette fille ( alanis Morissette née à Ottawa en 1974) a simplement du GÉNIE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! l'un des plus grands talents de la musique tout genre confondu . d'ailleurs renseignez vous pour savoir le nombre colossal de disques qu'elle a vendu ça vous donnera une idée de l'engouement qu'elle a suscité au début de sa carrière . Je crois de mémoire qu'elle a vendu 33 millions de copies de son premier album !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! écoutez la ( sa musique possède une force une authenticité peut être jamais vu dans l'histoire de la pop music !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) et envolez vous vers le paradis musical !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MYTHIQUE !!!!!!!!!!!! pour l'anecdote elle est devenue américaine il y a quelques années alors qu'elle est canadienne d'origine !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bien entendu Elle est auteur compositeur interprète sinon ce que je viens de dire n'aurait aucun sens !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNE ARTISTE HISTORIQUE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! elle raconte une histoire qui lui est arrivé ( une relation sexuelle malheureuse quand elle était adolescente avec une personne de son entourage dans la clandestinité) Peut-être le plus grand phénomène musical de ces 30 dernières années !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MONUMENTAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LE TALENT ABSOLU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Une dernière chose la première fois que j'ai entendu alanis Morissette j'ai failli tomber de ma chaise un choc absolu et pourtant je peux vous dire que je connais des centaines pour ne pas dire des milliers de musiciens et de groupes alors imaginez le TALENT DE CETTE FILLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MONSTRUEUSEMENT BEAU TOUT SIMPLEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GUY
After all these years, these lyrics make so much more sense...
To fucking hell with her reputation. Alanis genuinely, well, fucking ROCKS!
MacKeeper Review So, what is her reputation?
Frank S. Yeah, I was wondering the same thing...?????
+Frank S. i think what he meant was the she doesn't give a fuck, I like that too.
What is her reputation you are talking about?
wow 2023. Sometines yoi need a voice to say one thing, Alanis have said much more in every song and I am thankful for that ❤
Alanis I love much this song the ways things can be interpreted ....was 2002 I was homeless well - now I'm not and I still love you !
Alanis, the queen of nostalgia rock.
Alanis was such a trail blazer of the time. She sang brutally honest lyrics and sang from the soul. Been a fan of hers since 1994 and I frequently come back to her music when I’m doing my own soul searching.
Such a beautiful & very raw talent she is..
Shes best female singer/writer ever in my book...
She talked about this song in a video as a conversation back and forth between her and the man who committed statutory rape. So some of the lyrics are what he said to her and some are what she said/ would say to him. Incredible song really.
The biggest, and most typical part is, that when it was released - This was a brilliant good song plus great video! Yet, no one really got the words she said. This had heavy rotation!
@@JJ-vg9du not really true. When came out I knew exactly what sing was about. How someone in industry attacked her when under age.. she never said who person was or if still in industry. Coming out the last few yrs or so how a lot of these men in power were creeps. How others turned blind eye to their *Supposed * crimes. .
@@gaile3765 Doesn't change the fact she didn't got help, so on a global scale most people sang allog with a nice video.
It was about Ryne
@@gaile3765 same. It was clear as day. The confirmation was just nice
Any girl that was ever groomed by an older man feels this in their bones. Thanks Alainis for saying it much more eloquently than i ever could ❤
Groomed is a harsh word. It's only a bad thing if it's just for sex; being with a younger woman can really make an older man feel like life is still worth living. But yeah, if he's just using her, it's bad.
@Folker46590 no bro. It's gross. Most if not all of men like that are in it for nefarious reasons. If what i said made you feel some type of way then you probably need to talk to a professional
An introduction to Gaslighting
sending love xo men r aweful waving the I LOVEYOU Lie to get in our panties.........
It’s only rock n roll! Lol!
I like the video, it shows the right storyline of how much influential her music was
simply I love you Alanis...since you started to sing... (from Italy)
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Sending prayers and loves to Alanis and the lead singer of Foo Fighters and to the crew. I know it’s not him playing the drum, but he was the drummer for her for her 3rd Album Jagged Little Pill. R.I.P. Taylor ❤️😢 🥁
But Taylor was the drummer of FF too. Dave Grohl is the singer of FF and was the drummer of Nirvana and a Queens of the Stone Age Album. Taylored toured with her as her drummer, yes.