From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #359 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, July 31 2002 Volume 07 : Number 359 * 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 V7 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] sweetest Jewel songs [Shawn E Williams ] [EDA] NJC: private radio concerts [Shawn E Williams ] [EDA] RIDE WITH THE DEVIL!!!!!! [Shawn E Williams ] [EDA] SJC: Adult Top 40 ["Stacey Hamilton" ] [EDA] NJC: trade ads.. ["Lindsay" ] Re: [EDA] sweetest Jewel songs [JeWeLNuMbEr1FaN@aol.com] [EDA] FWD: JeweLink: July 31, 2002 [Mike Connell ] [EDA] Music moving back towards "Jewel's Style"... ["Sandy" Subject: [EDA] sweetest Jewel songs What is everyone's 10 favorite sweetest Jewel songs? There are so many, but here are some of mine: no particular order: 1. Violet Eyes 2. Near You Always 3. My Valentine 4. My Body Is Changing 5. Does Anyone Believe In Love Anymore 6. Morning Song 7. Sweet Sweet Angel 8. Lemondrops and Clover 9. Jupiter 10. Face of Love LISTEN TO JEWEL'S NEW SONG "THIS WAY" AT: http://www.jeweljk.com/low/thisway.html ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:11:43 -0400 From: Shawn E Williams Subject: [EDA] NJC: private radio concerts has anyone been to a private radio concert? would it be hard to sneak a tape recorder in or do they search you? love ya, shawney the hippie angel LISTEN TO JEWEL'S NEW SONG "THIS WAY" AT: http://www.jeweljk.com/low/thisway.html ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:13:02 -0400 From: Shawn E Williams Subject: [EDA] RIDE WITH THE DEVIL!!!!!! it's about to come on at 2:30 on USA for anyone who hasn't seen it like me. i'm so excited!! love ya, shawney the hippie angel LISTEN TO JEWEL'S NEW SONG "THIS WAY" AT: http://www.jeweljk.com/low/thisway.html ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:20:15 -0600 From: "Stacey Hamilton" Subject: [EDA] SJC: Adult Top 40 Avril Lavigne's single is now ***NUMBER ONE*** on the Billboard Adult Top 40 chart!!!!!!!! She's SOOO awesome!!!! I can't wait for her new single to come out and to see the Making the video show on MTV. She's also going to be in a Nickolodean special concert this Sunday that I'm sure will be excellent. Hey does anyone know if Jewel's CD has gone platinum yet? Me and my friends were talking about that the other day and I wasn't sure if it had or not. If it hasn't, then how many copies have been sold to date? _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:40:09 -0400 From: "Lindsay" Subject: [EDA] NJC: trade ads.. Okay, I'm getting desperate.. ;) I don't know if any of you are interested in trade ads or anything but I have a looott and I thought you might want some.. so.. if you want any of the following that you are willing to trade for (just mainly lookin for Jewel print stuff and live shows now)... well, here's the list: http://www.elevated23.com/ads.html Email me privately if you see something you might want. Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:55:50 EDT From: JeWeLNuMbEr1FaN@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] sweetest Jewel songs not in any order 1. morning song 2. face of love 3. what simple is true 4. sweet sweet angel 5. summer home in your arms 6. break me 7. my valentine 8. does anyone believe in love anymore 9. angel standing by 10. near you always the angel who gets to see *cher* sept. 4th!!!!! "There are some girls coming up - J-Lo, Britney - and I want them to have something to aspire to," said Cher early in her sold-out Bradley Center show. "Follow this show if you can, you little bitches." http://www.geocities.com/jewels_acoustic_spirit ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:51:15 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: [EDA] FWD: JeweLink: July 31, 2002 Here is the latest issue of JeweLink, directly from Jewel's "people", if you want to get a copy of this directly as each issue comes out, you can sub- scribe to it by sending a blank email to join-jewelink@list.jeweljk.com ******************************************** JeweLink - The Official Jewel Communications List ******************************************** In this edition of JeweLink: ***LATE LATE SHOW - TONIGHT! ***TOUR SECTION UPDATES ***CLEARWATER ART SHOW EVENTS ******************************************** ***LATE LATE SHOW - TONIGHT! Jewel sings her new single, "This Way," in a rare acoustic performance featuring Mark Oakley on guitar, on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn TONIGHT! This program follows David Letterman in many markets at 12:35 p.m. but local affilliates determine scheduling, so check your local listings to be sure. ******************************************** ***TOUR SECTION UPDATES: THIS WEEK'S TOUR PHOTOS This week we're featuring new photos taken at Jewel's concert at Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta on June 17th. SETLISTS PAGES NOW COMPLETE The www.jeweljk.com setlist page is now completely updated with accurate setlists to every This Way Tour show this year, right up through the final night in San Diego this past Sunday. Every Jewel set is included, with notation about various special guests who've dropped in along the way. You'll also find setlists to all the Soul City Cafe Artbeat performances as well as all the setlists for SCC artists who warmed up shows over the past few weeks. NEW TOUR DIARY ENTRY Our man on the road checks in with another new Tour Diary entry this week, which includes a brief chat with Jewel at the Los Angeles stop this past Friday. Now online in the www.jeweljk.com Tour section. Just click the banner on the main page or go directly to: http://www.jeweljk.com/low/tour.html Keep visiting the Tour Section. More to come. ******************************************** ***CLEARWATER ART SHOW EVENTS After the tremendous response we received from the ClearWater Network regarding our upcoming Fundraising Art Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, we thought it was best to send out another announcement with the specific event times and location information many of you requested. Both of these ClearWater events take place during Wine and Chili festival week and just before the Hot Air Balloon festival week. We hope to see you there! September 28th, Nedra Matteucci (Finn) Galleries 1075 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 10:00am - 4 pm Exhibition Presentation Representatives from the ClearWater Project will be on hand to interact and answer questions with the public. Photographs taken from both the Tibetan and Lake Valley Navajo communities will also be on display and available for sale. International recording artist Andres Condon will be performing at the event. Sunday, September 29th, Evo Gallery 940 East Palace Ave Santa Fe, New Mexico 1 pm - 7 pm Art, Lectures, Silent Auction Photographs from the ClearWater Project sites will be on display and available for sale. A water topic discussion from local and international experts in the afternoon includes participation from local Tibetan monks and Navajo Nation Representatives. The Evo Gallery will host a cocktail reception in the late afternoon for its guests and speakers, and a silent auction will be included in the day's festivities. International recording artist Andres Condon will be performing at the event. For more information about these events, please email us at support@clearwaterproject.org. Visit us at http://www.clearwaterproject.org. ******************************************** Now Playing: Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On" ******************************************** Jewel concert information, radio and TV scheduling updates available 24 hours a day at: http://jeweljk.com/low/calendar.html ******************************************** - --- You can help a friend subscribe by having them send a blank email to join-jewelink@list.jeweljk.com To view selected back issues of JeweLink, please visit the JeweLink Archive at the www.jeweljk.com calendar page. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 16:31:36 -0400 From: "Sandy" Subject: [EDA] Music moving back towards "Jewel's Style"... Hey, saw this article posted in someone's livejournal, and thought it was great :) It's nice to know that it seems as though music if finally moving away from the bubblegum pop and into more pop-rock :) Britney backlash? New crop of teen pop queens reject sex-symbol statusm By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY .c The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Since Britney Spears arrived on the music scene three years ago, pop music has molded its teen queens according to three Bs - blondness, beauty and bustiers. But a new crop of female singer-songwriters is challenging the notion that you have to bare your navel and cavort in tight clothes to be sexy and successful in pop music. Over the last year, Michelle Branch, Vanessa Carlton and Avril Lavigne have been dominating the charts by putting more of the focus on their music. Call them the Anti-Britneys. ``I'm just saying I don't want to sell sex,'' says Lavigne, a 17-year-old from Ontario, Canada, whose debut disc, ``Let's Go,'' has gone gold in a month's time. ``I feel that's sort of lame and low. I've got so much more to say.'' Fans are listening. In recent weeks, her first video, ``Complicated,'' bested Spears' latest video, ``Boys,'' on MTV's teen-frenzied ``Total Request Live.'' Carlton, a 21-year-old piano-playing singer, has also been a mainstay on the show, along with the 19-year-old guitarist Branch, who sparked the trend when her disc, ``The Spirit Room,'' was released last August. It has sold more than 1 million copies. ``I think that a lot of people were really oversaturated with exactly the opposite of what we are,'' says Branch. ``There were people dancing around who didn't write their own music, and really that's been kind of the marketplace for the last five years.'' Tom Calderone, senior vice president of music and talent programming at MTV and MTV2, says of pop's new teen queens: ``It has given the audience an opportunity to realize that not every pop star has to show their belly button, not every pop star has to be a waif, and pop stars can pick up instruments.'' After Spears showed she could sell millions singing fluffy pop grooves with a Barbie image, there were plenty of others who followed: Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore, Willa Ford. Most of the teen groups, male and female, fit a similar mold - emphasizing style as much as song. (The music of some other successful, female singer-songwriters - namely Alicia Keys, India.Arie and Nelly Furtado - was not geared to the teen-age audience.) Then came the inevitable backlash. Teen pop's once white-hot sales have fallen off, and while Spears' latest album, ``Britney,'' is still a top-seller with 3.8 million copies sold, it did not do as well as her previous discs. In fact, R&B singer turned pop-rock princess Pink has sold nearly as many copies as Spears with her second disc, ``M!ssundaztood.'' Released last fall, it has sold 3 million copies, and she has made a point in her music and interviews of how un-Britney like she is, with her wild attitude and punk hairstyle. ``A lot of girls who grew up on Britney ... they are a little bit older now, and they are into something different,'' says Sia Michel, editor in chief at Spin magazine. ``It's sort of turning around from this idea when teen-age fun was all about fun and frothiness.'' Lavigne says today's fans want to hear music that's ``more meaningful; there's more to it than just pretty songs that are all rhymey.'' Her songs and those of Branch and Carlton are mostly about the same things that Spears or 'N Sync touch on - love and heartbreak. And Spears has taken to songwriting herself of late - she co-wrote a few on her latest disc. ``It just feels like me,'' she said in an interview earlier this year. ``I feel basically more in control, and I think it shows in my music. I'm just trying to do the kind of music I like. ... You get bored singing the same kind of stuff.'' But the songs of Branch, Carlton and Lavigne tend to be more introspective and lyrically sophisticated, delving into everyday teen angst a little deeper. Most are written or co-written by the singers. The music and the singers' independent image harken back to Fiona Apple, Jewel, Alanis Morissette and Paula Cole - female singer-songwriters who were the hottest thing in pop a few years ago, before teen pop took over. ``I think that sound is coming back,'' says Spin's Michel. ``If you look at the charts right now, there's tons of these girls who are doing really well.'' Tamara Bedricky of Rochester, Michigan, hopes to become another. She recently was a finalist in Pantene's Pro-Voice competition in Central Park, which looks for young women singer-songwriters. Bedricky, 22, watched Branch perform there. ``She's been a huge influence on me,'' she said. ``There's been a lot more natural singer-songwriters coming around. For me, it's kind of refreshing to see that, because I myself am one of those people.'' Trying to buck the feel-good pop trend hasn't been easy, the artists say. Carlton recalls meeting resistance when she approached some record labels. ``They would have fear of God because it was so alternative in comparison with what was selling then,'' she says. Even after she signed with A&M Records, she says, she didn't get much attention - until Keys, the 21-year-old R&B songstress, became last year's sensation and won five Grammys. ``Guys (at the label) were like, kicking themselves,'' she says. ``And suddenly then, I became a priority.'' Lavigne, who also plays guitar, says there were times when she was working on her album that people at Arista wanted her to sing other people's pop ballads instead of her own songs, filled with attitude and angst. ``There was nothing wrong with them, but it wasn't me,'' she says. Then there were the times she was at a photo shoot and someone would suggest she wear something tighter. She, Carlton and Branch are apt to wear jeans rather than miniskirts, and go without heavy makeup and plunging necklines. ``That's tired, that marketing of girls in a way to make the audiences and the young people out there kind of drool with envy,'' says Carlton. ``I can wear clothing on every part of my body and feel just as sexy as if I was wearing a bra and panties.'' Branch, usually shown in a T-shirt and jeans, says she's not averse to dressing sexy, but ``I write music, and that's why I'm here. ... I never want the way I look or what I'm wearing to be the focus.'' A group of girls hanging out in New York's Times Square recently approved of the attitude. The new teen queens are ``so earthy,'' said 15-year-old Megan Brown. of Lavigne, she said, ``She's got spunk, she dresses good and her songs are pretty.'' Most said they listen to Spears sporadically. ``Some of her music's OK,'' said 16-year-old Anna, who didn't want to give her last name. ``But some of her music is a little too young, or ``Stupid,'' one girl offered, as they all burst out laughing. _______________________ ~ Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:49:08 EDT From: JewelWilcher@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Music moving back towards "Jewel's Style"... Hello EDAs, Just bored and thought I'd post what was on my mind. I thought this article was pretty interesting and I'm happy if what it says is true. I just wanted to note that the new crop of young talent, although in the same spirit of singer/songwriting as Jewel, I personally still don't think they measure up. I have purchased Vanessa's, Michelle's, and Avril's CDs and I like all of them. In fact, I love Avril's CD. However, in all honestly, none of these girls even come near to the level that the Lilith crop was at a few years ago. I know the comparison may be unfair, but since it is being made everywhere I look lately, I think a clear distinction has to be made. If Britney/Christina were at one end of the spectrum and Jewel/Tori were at the other...Michelle/Avril/Vanessa are right in the middle. I don't feel that they are that much more like Jewel than they are like Britney. If Avril, Michelle, and Vanessa are going to be anywhere near people like Sarah Mac, Jewel, Tori, Alanis' level they have a lot of work to do. But I like them just as they are...I know I shouldn't expect them to be like the deities. (= I'll just grin whenever the comparison arises. I think I read somewhere that Scott Stapp from Creed couldn't see the difference between them and Led Zepp.....I hope Michelle knows the difference between her and JK. OK...seriously..jk..just me blabbing my opinion. Don't be mad. (: Just thought I'd post, - - Will ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #359 ***************************