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You oughta know: Alanis Morissette is going to be an advice columnist.

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More than two decades after highlighting the irony of passing up good advice, the ’90s superstar will fill the role of “agony aunt” for the Guardian Weekend magazine, the publication announced Friday.

“Parents, brothers, even extended family members, that was the role I took on, because I suppose I had this combination of intuition and empathy,” Morissette said. “I cut my teeth, basically, listening for a living.”