“Joining You” by Alanis Morissette

"Joining You" was the second single from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Alanis Morissette's fourth album, sent out at the start of 1999. She and Glen Ballard wrote the music and produced it together, she wrote the words alone, and Chris Fogel mixed it. The song has a restless, seasick pull that comes straight from its bones: the verses sit in C minor and the chorus lurches into E minor, two keys that barely know each other, so every chorus feels like the floor tilting.

It climbed to 16 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks. A video was shot, but Morissette decided the pictures didn't suit the song and shelved it; a fragment finally surfaced on the DVD packaged with the limited edition of her 2005 compilation The Collection.

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