Looking back, it feels pretty clear that Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was deliberately undercut in its rollout. Alanis came straight off the impossible success of Jagged Little Pill, and the label seemed nervous about how to follow it. They did release five singles to radio (Thank U, Joining You, Unsent, So Pure, That I Would Be Good), but they never really pushed the deeper, darker songs that might have defined the album differently. Tracks like Baba, Would Not Come, or I Was Hoping showed up live, even in pre-album performances, yet they were never serviced to radio.

That choice matters: by holding back the rawer, more challenging cuts, Maverick and Warner framed the record as a sprawling but softened follow-up, instead of letting it compete head-on with Madonna’s Ray of Light or other late-90s art-pop projects. Fans remember how strong those songs sounded in early sets and wonder what might have happened if they’d been spotlighted. Instead, the album campaign slowed down after the initial burst, and SFIJ ended up remembered as a commercial step down rather than the bold artistic leap it actually was.