Video: Alanis Morissette - Too Hot

Filed under: The Hit List Every musician has to start somewhere, and few can look back on their early careers without a hint of embarrassment. But at times their humble musical beginnings are so drastically different from what we know today, it borders on the ridiculous. Here are a dozen artists who needed a second chance to get it right after a false start. Billy Joel: Psychedelic Metal God Before he became [...]

Issue me a late pass on this one if you'd like, but I only just thought of it. I enjoy Alanis' humps-based parody as much as the next man, it's well done and as everyone and their hipster mom has already said, she does a good job of skewering not only Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas, but also herself. But seeing it again the other day, it occurred to me that she chose her target very carefully. As this article from XXL describes quite well, there's an un-written rule in hip hop - white MC's [...]