What time is it?

Apparently, Jagged Little Pill by Alannis Morrisette was released ten years ago. I thought you should know.
People say I harp on too much about time. They attribute it to my obsession (read:neurosis) about my age. That's partially true. I doubt that time frames would have the same significance if not for my unique perspective. However, let's forget about age for a moment and just look at culture.
When someone says "The 80's" or "The 50's", think about what that brings to mind, all the fads, fashions, political and cultural shifts that spring to mind. Each decade is an era, an epoch, that rises and falls, brackets neatly by a year beginning in zero and one ending in nine. Generations of people are lumped together and defined by decades.
A decade, friends and lovers, is ten years. That means whatever paradigmical shift or sense of scale that the phrase "a decade" brings to mind, if any, just happened. Beginning with Jagged Little Pill and ending last Thursday.