Taylor Swift knows a little something about breakup songs. For quite some time, prior to her uplifting girl power breakthrough 1989, it was the newly-minted New York ambassador?s stock-in-trade, with her previous LP Red presumably inspired by her messy split from the wide-eyed actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Well, last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles she decided to bring out a kindred spirit. ?She defined the music of her decade,? announced Swift. ?She inspired a generation of confessional female singer-songwriters who all of a sudden felt like you could actually say these raw feelings that you had; you could actually sing about your real life, you could put detail to it, you could get really, really made if you wanted to. And I think it?s fair to say that so many of the female singer-songwriters of my generation, including myself, would not write the way that we do without her and her music. And she has written some of the most brilliant music?in particular probably inarguably the greatest breakup song of all-time.?
Then, the one and only Alanis Morissette?a one-time Daily Beast columnist, natch?emerged for a duet of her ?90s breakup anthem ?You Oughta Know? (inspired by Full House star Dave Coulier, believe it or not).
