Thank U

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"Thank U"

Single by Alanis Morissette
from the album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Released	October 6, 1998
Format	CD single
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop/Rock
Length	4:19
Label	Maverick
Writer(s)	Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
Producer(s)	Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard
Chart positions
#1 (Canada) #5 (UK) #17 (U.S.) #1 (Adult Top 40) #2 (Top 40 Mainstream) #2 (Top 40 Tracks) #12 (Modern Rock Tracks)
Alanis Morissette singles chronology
"Uninvited" (1998)	"Thank U" (1998)	"Joining You" (1999)

"Thank U" is a song by Alanis Morissette that was featured on her 1998 album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. It was released as the album's first single on October 6, 1998.

Morissette wrote "Thank U" after returning from a trip to India in 1997. The song expresses the heartfelt gratitude which she felt at the time. [1] Intensely personal lyrics, such as "thank you terror" and "thank you frailty", lend the song a mingled sense of cynicism, hope, and worldliness.

The excitement generated sent the single to number two on the U.S. airplay charts almost immediately and helped the song achieve a peak of number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100, which was strong, but not as successful as the multiple hits from Jagged Little Pill (1995), Morissette's previous album. "Thank U" is Morissette's most commercially successful post-Jagged Little Pill single.

"Thank U" was covered by British musician Steven Wilson, of Porcupine Tree fame, and sold as the limited-edition single Cover Version 1.

The music video featured a nude Morissette, with long hair shrouding her breasts, walking and being embraced by strangers in a variety of public locations, such as in the street, at a supermarket, and on a subway car. It was shocking, not only for the bared skin, but for the visual serenity that was quite evenly-matched to the song's lyrics. Some fans complained that the skin-colored tights Morissette wore on her lower body to give the illusion of nudity appeared too artificial. The video for "Thank U" was not well-received; nonetheless, many fans still regard it as groundbreaking. Slight modifications to the video were made before broadcasting by MTV in India and certain other Asian countries. Subsequent replays, however, aired the video in its original format.