Watch Alanis Morissette celebrate the new year, and the 30th anniversary of her hugely successful Jagged Little Pill album, on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve show

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Alanis Morissette, NYE 2024
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For those who didn't venture out to bars, clubs or fireworks displays, there were worse places to be as 2024 ended and 2025 began than sitting at home watching ABC TV's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve music spectacular.

This year's broadcast of the traditional NYE show saw Lenny Kravitz, Carrie Underwood, Kesha, Tinashe, TLC and more join presenter Ryan Seacrest for the annual celebrations, but the most talked-about performance of the night came from Alanis Morissette, who revisited her 33-million-selling 1995 album Jagged Little Pill for the occasion.

Morissette's album, which featured contributions from Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and AC/DC drummer Matt Laug, has found a whole new audience with Gen Z, including US pop-punk star Olivia Rodrigo, who duetted with Morissette on You Oughta Know, the album's lead single, at a show in Los Angeles in 2022.

Last night it was the turn of Mean Girls / The Sex Lives of College Girls star Reneé Rapp to share the spotlight with Morissette, joining the 50-year-old Canadian singer/songwriter onstage for You Oughta Know. Posting on Instagram, Rapp jokingly hailed Morissette as "the only person that could get me out of the house" on New Year's Eve.

Morissette also performed Jagged Little Pill's fourth single, Ironic, on the show.

Watch clips of the performances below:

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Morissette will tour South America, Europe and the UK later this year.

Her European tour will visit:

Jun 11: Bergen Bergenhus Fortress, Norway
Jun 13: Egeskov Castle and Gardens, Denmark
Jun 15: Stockholm Grona Lund Tivoli, Sweden
Jun 17: Berlin Zitadelle Spandau, Germany
Jun 19: Warsaw Torwar Arena, Poland
Jun 21: Prague Exhibition Grounds, Czech Republic
Jun 22: Codroipo Villa Manin, Italy
Jun 24: Esch Sur Alzette Rockhal, Luxembourg
Jun 25: Amsterdam Ziggo Dome, Holland
Jun 29: Dublin Malahide Castle, Ireland
Jun 30: Belfast Ormeau Park, UK

Jul 02: Cardiff Castle, UK
Jul 04: Lancashire Lytham Festival, UK
Jul 05: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK
Jul 09: Coruna Coliseum, Spain
Jul 12: Barcelona Cruilla Festival, Spain

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Paul Brannigan
Paul Brannigan
Contributing Editor, Louder

A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal.