Dave Coulier describes moment he realised Alanis Morissette’s ‘You Oughta Know’ was about him

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Alanis Morissette’s song ‘You Oughta Know’, which remains one of the singer-songwriter’s biggest hits.Morissette dated the Full House star between 1992 and 1994, breaking up around the time that Morissette was writing her third studio album, ‘Jagged Little Pill’. ‘You Oughta Know’ was released as the album’s first single in July of 1995 (around a month after the album itself came out), and has gone on to become iconic as a breakup anthem.Coulier first acknowledged similarities between the song’s content and his relationship to Morissette in 1997, but has shifted his perspective on whether or not it’s actually about him several times over the years.

Now, in a new interview with SiriusXM presenters Jim Norton and Sam Roberts, the actor has once again acknowledged that he may be the subject of the acrimonious song.Discussing the first time he heard ‘You Oughta Know’, Coulier said: “I’m driving in Detroit and I’ve got my radio on, and I hear the hook for ‘You Oughta Know’ come on the radio.

I’m like, ‘Wow this is a really cool hook.’ And then I start hearing the voice and I’m like, ‘Wow, this girl can sing…’ And then I was listening to the lyrics, going, ‘Oh no.

Oh, I can’t be this guy!’”Coulier explained that he subsequently bought a CD copy of ‘Jagged Little Pill’, and upon listening to the album in its entirety, came across “a lot of familiar stuff in there that her and I had talked about”.