Hand in My Pocket - 2015 Remaster

Many songs on the Jagged Little Pill album are very Zen. This is one of them - it finds Alanis staying composed and relaxed in a maddening world, all the while railing against conformity.

One hand is in her pocket, but what is the other one doing? Five different things throughout the song, it turns out: Giving a high five Flicking a cigarette Giving a peace sign Playing the piano Hailing a taxi cab

Morissette wrote this with Glen Ballard, who produced the album. In a Spotify session, she told the story: "I was scribbling all these dichotomies and dualisms. Human beings are all things. At any given moment, if you said, 'What are you feeling right now?' I'd probably be feeling 16 different things - it's rare that I feel one emotion at any given time. So I thought, I'm just going to chronicle in this moment right here while Glen's out of the room. When Glen came back in the room, I showed him the piece of paper and he started playing while I sang the lyrics. We wrote that song in about 15 minutes."