From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V8 #368 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Friday, August 22 2003 Volume 08 : Number 368 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * For the latest news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "calendar" * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V8 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] jewel concert in cali?? [CleaningDuster@aol.com] [EDA] front row! ["Pupecki, Stacy" ] [EDA] Regis/Kelly on Tuesday [cristian louvier ] [EDA] Regis&Kelly = RERUN [piecesblue@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:58:46 EDT From: CleaningDuster@aol.com Subject: [EDA] jewel concert in cali?? Hey guys, Did anybody listen to Jewel on loveline tonight?? I only caught part of it!! Hey does anybody know if there are any cali dates yet?? Are they still releasing dates or are those final? chandini ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:46:19 -0400 From: "Pupecki, Stacy" Subject: [EDA] front row! i finally got front row seats....... to jewel! no special access, no presales. no scalpers! Stacy p. "ct angel needs a ride" (\o/) /_\ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:55:16 -0700 (PDT) From: cristian louvier Subject: [EDA] Regis/Kelly on Tuesday Hello all, I am watching Live with Regis and Kelly and they just said that Jewel was going to be a guest on Tuesday (it showed part of the Intuition video). I am assuming this might be new but I am not sure. I don't see it on the Jewel calendar. Bye! cristian The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:23:28 +0100 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: [EDA] 0304 review from today's Guardian (UK Newspaper) Jewel: 0304 (Atlantic) Alexis Petridis Friday August 22, 2003 The Guardian Earlier this year, newspaper arts pages were big on articles pondering why America's rock and pop stars were ignoring the Iraq war. The problem was not simply that the old rebellious spirit of protest seemed dead. A handful of redneck country acts, the Dixie Chicks and some faithful 1960s refuseniks aside, no one seemed to have anything to say at all, either for or against the conflict. Broadsheet commentators bemoaned the deafening silence. Could no American artist come up with an original and interesting response to Operation Enduring Freedom? Not in their most feverish state could any broadsheet commentator have imagined a response to the war quite as interesting as that formulated by Alaskan singer-songwriter Jewel Kilcher. Since 1994, Kilcher has carved out a multi-platinum niche in the US specialising in acoustic songs called things like Innocence Maintained and I'm Sensitive. Along the way, two collections of her frankly abominable poetry - including the illuminatingly subtitled Faith Poem (A Poem About Faith) - made her a best-selling author. So far, so teeth-grittingly winsome. In June, however, Jewel announced the American release of her fourth album by appearing on the cover of US music magazine Blender clad in a g-string and an Agent Provocateur basque. In contrast to the twee folkery of her previous releases, 0304 features electronic pop, co-written with songwriters-for-hire including Robbie Williams's former collaborator Guy Chambers and Rick Nowels, famed for his work with such sensitive coffee-house troubadours as Kylie Minogue and Ronan Keating. The more cynical observer might suggest that what we are witnessing here is that old-fashioned musical volte-face, the Blatant Sell-Out, particularly when one considers that Jewel's US sales have been in freefall for some time: her 1994 debut Pieces of You shifted 11 million copies, but 2001's That Way could only manage a paltry million. According to Kilcher, however, the cynical observer would be missing the point. The lingerie and the production-line tunesmiths are, in fact, her contribution to the war effort. "I knew we were headed to war... The music that has always done well during wartime has always been music that makes you want to escape." She went on to compare 0304 to Cole Porter and the big-band music of the 1940s. In this light, it's difficult to decide whether Kilcher's new image is a 180-degree career shift or simply a particularly elaborate attempt to get into Private Eye's Warballs column. Either way, it's the most dramatic image overhaul you're ever likely to see, unless Holly Valance decides to start taking the stage in a donkey jacket and Doc Martens and covering the Pop Group's For How Much Longer Will We Tolerate Mass Murder? You can't fault Kilcher for trying to brazen it out in her sleeve notes. "Dear Fans. Where to start? This album may seem different to you," she says, tactfully neglecting to mention that if it doesn't seem any different to you, you should seriously consider having your ears syringed. For all the subsequent bluster about 0304 being "the first record I enjoy listening to", it's hard to ignore a desperate, imploring tone here and in the album itself. Like Robbie Williams's Escapology, 0304 virtually knocks itself out in its attempts to win over the US public. It tries everything: new wave-influenced pop in the vein of Shania Twain's I'm Gonna Getcha Good!, Ashanti-style R&B with oriental motifs, lyrics that virtually get on their knees and beg the listener to like them: "If you want me, let me know, I promise I won't say no"; "I just want to get along, this is your song." Finally, it opts for patriotism: "I wanna change it, but I wouldn't leave it if I could," she sings on America. It's simultaneously cloying and exhausting, like being trapped in a confined space with an over-eager puppy. If Kilcher did indeed want to produce "music that makes you want to escape", she has succeeded beyond her wildest dreams. But you suspect that's not what she wanted to do at all. Her voice is ill-suited to the material. She looked uncomfortable on the cover of Blender, as if a record company executive was standing slightly out of shot, holding her recent sales figures in one hand and a loaded pistol in the other, and she sounds uncomfortable here. She moans orgasmically on Haunted, squeaks her way through the opening Stand, and tries to make sense of her own situation on Intuition: "I'm just a simple girl in a hi-tech digital world... in a world of postmodern fad, what was good now is bad." Nevertheless, it's a situation that she might have to put up with for some time to come. Whether Britain will take to 0304 remains to be seen, but the US seems to have fallen for it in a big way: over there, it has already sold over 350,000 copies. Sometimes, it seems, the cheapest tricks prove surprisingly effective. - ------- Chris. http://www.jewelfan.co.uk : Jewel - Pieces Of UK http://pub70.ezboard.com/fmusicpromosdiscussionfrm14 : Official UK Jewel Forum ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:24:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Quattrini Subject: Re: [EDA] front row! Heh... :P I got through to the box office at the Providence Performing Arts Center about 15 minutes after tickets went on sale (there was no pre-sale) and the best they could do for three seats was fourth row balcony. :X Being at work at the time didn't help, either :P - --- "Pupecki, Stacy" wrote: > i finally got front row seats....... to jewel! no special access, > no presales. no scalpers! > > Stacy p. > "ct angel needs a ride" > (\o/) > /_\ ===== * http://www.geocities.com/quattj/ http://www.?p3.com/TheMasterCow * ]:o_ Jason Quattrini The Master Cow _o:[ |O = "I am a WERECOW! Moooooooo!!!!" = O| |_o= quattj@yahoo.com ? = m =o_| . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:39:30 +0000 From: piecesblue@comcast.net Subject: [EDA] Regis&Kelly = RERUN regis and kelly will continue airing reruns next week until the new season starts sept. 2. rebecca ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V8 #368 ***************************