* [[ActingForTwo Acting for Four]]: The music video clip for "Ironic".
* CreatorBacklash:
** Her first two albums, which are basically the RealLife version of [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Robin Sparkles]]. Lampshaded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWwd7fwTt8 this performance]] of one of her old teen pop singles ([[RearrangeTheSong in her angsty modern style]]), where she says that the song "[[SelfDeprecation deserves no introduction.]]"
** ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107292/ Just One of the Girls]]'', a DirectToVideo movie starring Corey Haim and Nicole Eggert that she made a [[CelebrityCameo cameo]] in during her teen pop years. She says that it was entirely "horrible".
** Despite having involvement with the project, Alanis would denounce the HBO documentary ''Jagged'' shortly after its premiere. She accused the filmmakers of using her for their personal agenda, and was so upset seeing the first cut of the film that she refused to attend the debut screening.
* DeliberateFlawRetcon: She has claimed that the lack of actual examples of irony in her song "Ironic" was ''[[MindScrew intentionally ironic]]''.
* NoExportForYou: ''Space Cakes'' was released only in Japan, while ''The Singles Box'' was released only in Australia.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Considering how much she hates them, it's no surprise that her first two albums have not received digital releases.
* ParodyRetcon: Her infamous song "Ironic".
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The video for "Hands Clean" released in 2002 shows a fictionalised narrative of the song from conception, through writing, recording and distributing it. While it's still pretty accurate it has no sequence covering digital and online distribution or promotion as while iTunes had come out in 2001 it would still be a few years before digital music sales seriously rivalled [=CDs=] and Website/YouTube was not launched until 2005.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: While she's not proud of her first two albums, she did consider putting the singles from the albums to be included on the GreatestHitsAlbum ''The Collection'' for curiosity's sake but her record label advised against it and she later admitted that it was for the best, given her dislike of them.
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