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highplainsdem

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6. Great performance! Morissette was a major influence on the Dutch singer Anouk -- who was apparently
Tue May 17, 2022, 04:39 PM
May 2022

being asked about that influence at the start of this 1998 video:






Wikipedia article on the song:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%27s_Wife_(song)

Music & Media wrote about the song. On the 13 December 1997 issue, Dutch music programmer Ben Houdijk said of the song, "It might be loud on the surface, but under the skin, there's a beautiful song. A rock song with balls is a gift to radio in these ballad -flooded times." Meanwhile, on the 31 January 1998 issue, Music & Media commented, "This is an excellent rock ballad by the Golden Earring endorsed Dutch debutante artist [...]. Anouk has made a bold—and as it turns out, convincing—move into the territory already occupied by the likes of Alanis Morissette and Meredith Brooks."[2]



I prefer her 2008 performance at the GelreDome arena, which I posted here a while back:




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