You Oughta Read...

Upon doing some research on Alanis Morissette's album, Jagged Little Pill, being the the highest selling debut album in U.S. history (for your information, this fact is indeed proven correct) I came across a very interesting tidbit on the subject of Ms. Alanis's song, "You Oughta Know." It turns out, that one of the biggest rumors about the song is that it was written about Alanis's ex-lover Dave Coulier.

Who is Dave Coulier, you might ask? None other then Mr. Joey Gladstone himself from Full House!!

It was inevitable that her song would trigger gossip about the identity of the ex-lover savaged in the lyrics for moving on so quickly:

Did you forget about me, Mister Duplicity?
I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.
It was a slap in my face how quickly I was replaced.
Are you thinking of me when you f**k her?

Morissette dated actor/comedian Coulier after they met at a hockey game in 1992. The relationship reportedly ended because Coulier, fifteen years her senior, wanted to start a family, but Morissette felt she was too young.

Morissette revealed in a 1995 interview that the song was not a mere abstraction but was indeed about someone specific with whom she had a relationship: "I haven't heard from him, and I don't think he knows. Which sort of says a lot about him. The ironic thing is, if anybody questions whether it's them I'm writing about, that means something in and of itself. People who were kind and honest and full of integrity throughout the process of making this album wouldn't question whether they were in that song because they would know," she said.

If Coulier didn't know about the rumor in 1995, he reportedly did by 1997, when the spokesman for Boston's Comedy Connection (where Coulier was currently working) told the Boston Herald: "He admitted the lines are very close to home. Especially the one about 'an older version of me' and bugging him in 'the middle of dinner.' He said she used to do that all the time."

Alanis Morissette will most likely never reveal the identity of the person portrayed in her hit single. Is Coulier the culprit? That more information the world DOESN'T CARE to know!