From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V8 #233 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Tuesday, June 3 2003 Volume 08 : Number 233 * 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] Stand Lyric Question? ["charlie zidon" ] Re: [EDA] LENO TONIGHT!! ["Alisa Petersen" ] [EDA] jewel on leno! ["now and zen girl" ] [EDA] In-depth New York Times review [Stephen Hallowes ] [EDA] What's in your head listening to 0304 [NeOblCar@aol.com] [EDA] Its June 3rd! ["Crystal Ackles" ] [EDA] America!!! [SullMa84@aol.com] [EDA] 0304=ahhhh [JeWeLNuMbEr1FaN@aol.com] [EDA] Jewel's Website [casper31@juno.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:10:40 +0000 From: "charlie zidon" Subject: [EDA] Stand Lyric Question? Hey... I'm just curious... Are you all posative it's "so much violence ends in silence" or could it possibly be "so much violence, sins, and silence" ?? Cuase that's what I think I hear.. but I"m NOT sure.. haha also could it be "a homeless man pulls out a bill and says it's on him" instead of roll? Thanks for your help charlie From: "J W" To: Jewel@smoe.org Subject: Re: [EDA] Stand Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:32:26 -0700 Stand Verse 1: Walk in a corner shop See a shop-lifting cop See the old lady with a gun See the hero try to run Nothing's what it seems I mean It's not all dirty but it's not all clean There's children paying bills There's monks buying thrills There's pride for sale in magazine There's pills for rent to make you clean Marvin Gaye, there's no "brother brother" Woody Guthrie's land can't feed mother CHORUS: Mothers weep, children sleep So much violence ends in silence It's a shame there's no one to blame For all the pain that life brings If you will just take me It might just complete me And together, we can make a stand Verse 2: A waitress brings me lunch We meet but do not touch On TV D.C's selling lies While in the corner King's dream dies Go to the counter to pay for me and my friend A homeless man pulls out a roll And says it's on him The mayor says he has no cash He said he spent it on hookers and hash CHORUS BRIDGE: You will love me I will love you You will love me (Walk to the counter, pull out some cash) I will love you (He spent it on hookers and hash) CHORUS TO FADE (with "you will love me/i will you love" in the background from the second repeat onwards) thanks to fredsteve and scott! :D - --Jewel Worshiper-- http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/jk_worshipers/main.html (my Jewel Page) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jewel is GOD WWJD --- What Would Jewel Do "damn Tigger, damn Tigger - Eeyore hates you, 'cause he's pieces of you" -- Jewel >From: "Laura Ritchie" >Reply-To: >To: >Subject: [EDA] Stand >Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:15:17 -0500 > >Hey everyone, I was just wondering if anyone could help me find the Stand >lyrics, I heard the song and I feel in love with it. I have been trying to >find the lyrics but I am having no luck... thanks ya'll :) > >*~Laura~* >-From what you do to what you don't do, you will always be successful at >some points in your life, even if you don't belive so, the option is always >open- > >________________________________________________________________ >Sent via ilovedanny.com >Get your FREE email at http://www.LoveLetters.com! _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:41:31 -0700 From: "Alisa Petersen" Subject: Re: [EDA] LENO TONIGHT!! She really is sexy!! I wasn't sure of the granny underpants---- but the whole look works together and she seemed happy, especially when singing the chorus. I like how she said "Jay.....!" when he mentioned something about Oklahoma? She is just the greatest! Really green eyes. Can't wait til 9am this morning to get her cd! aaaaah!!!! Asp. - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:28 PM Subject: [EDA] LENO TONIGHT!! > I dunno if anyone reminded but Jewel is on leno tonight don't forget to > record it!! :) > > > ~MicheLe > Get out of my way, I don't like fucking waiting > *Lisa Marie Presley* > > *If you don't like How I act or what I say...don't talk to me ..I am me , Im > not gonna pretend to be someone else for you...* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:05:17 +0000 From: "now and zen girl" Subject: [EDA] jewel on leno! WOW! just got done watching jewel on leno... that was great! jewel looked amazing and she sounded amazing too!!! GO JEWEL! I GET 0304 TOMORROW!!!!!! YAY YAY YAY!!!! ps... gotta love that outfit!! hehehehehe go jewel!! alisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN 8 helps ELIMINATE E-MAIL VIRUSES. Get 2 months FREE*. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 19:47:46 +1000 From: Stephen Hallowes Subject: [EDA] In-depth New York Times review Hey Guys I was very surprised to find a very in-depth review of 0304 in the New York Times today! This review seems to comply with the NY Times's recent tradition of not actually saying if the CD is good or bad, but just kinda ... talking about it. So some of it seems positive and some of it seems negative, but there's no real conclusion. Here it is: Seriously, It's Time to Lighten Up *By KELEFA SANNEH* ! *0304* /Jewel/ Jewel has a problem that everyone from Linkin Park to Kelly Clarkson probably envies: she's afraid that people take her too seriously. It's her own fault, of course. After all, no one forced her to augment her recorded output with a volume of poetry and a loosely organized memoir  in fact, it seems likely that a number of sensible friends and associates tried to dissuade her. And in any case, Jewel's reputation for sincerity has served her well in the eight years since she made her debut. She has invented her own kind of pop solemnity, leavened with just enough whimsy to make it bearable. Even when she murmured, "Who will save your soul?," she sounded as if she were merely curious. Still, Jewel seems to have decided that her old reputation has become a liability: it's time she lightened up. So she has begun a full-scale rebranding effort centered on her new album, "0304" (Atlantic). On the cover, the singer models carefully torn clothes the color of highlighter markers, and inside, there's an extraordinary "Note to fans" explaining the change. "This record may seem different to you," Jewel writes, adding that she aimed to bring together "dance, urban and folk music." What sticks in the mind, though, is her two-word description of the new album, a description that suggests desperate enthusiasm: "It's fun!" She's right, although her description requires all the usual qualifications: more or less, much of the time, in a way. One of the album's first songs is "Run 2 U," in which Jewel sounds exactly as lighthearted as she means to. The usual acoustic guitar is joined by a bubbling synthesizer and a buoyant beat; she sings the lyrics in a high, sighing voice that makes a passionate affair sound as casual as one-night stand. A number of other songs hew closely to this formula: electro-acoustic beats, lovey-dovey lyrics, alphanumeric spelling. In pursuit of nonseriousness, perhaps, she's not afraid to repeat herself. In "Run 2 U," she sings, "Let me crash into u"; in "2 Become 1," she sings, "Melt into me now"; in "Sweet Temptation," she sings about what happens "When u fall into me"; and in "U & Me = Love," she sings, "Won't u crash into me?" These are lyrics that are begging to be ignored. Maybe this is Jewel's way of doing something that's both enormously difficult and slightly paradoxical: she's saying that people needn't listen to what she's saying. The album's lead single is "Intuition," for which Jewel has made a sharp music video with the director Marc Klasfeld. The video is a series of vignettes, with grainy images of the singer walking down the street that metamorphose into glossy advertisements for Jewel jeans, Jewel soda, even Jewelle, the magazine. Near the end, Mr. Klasfeld uses an MTV-style graphic to scroll a message from an imaginary fan: "Jewel's music sounds much better now that she's dancing!" It's a great video, but the song isn't quite sophisticated enough to match it. Jewel has never been subtle, but she has often been less heavy-handed. Her best songs don't grapple with big ideas, they flirt with big ideas; on her hit "Hands" from 1998, she seemed to be batting her eyelashes as she sang, "In the end, only kindness matters." "Intuition" isn't nearly so charming: the lyrics are full of hollow complaints about the "world of postmodern fad," whatever that means. The verses offer a nice surprise: a bit of accordion, wedded to a heavy backbeat. (In the liner notes, Jewel thanks her new producer, Lester A. Menendez, for dreaming up the combination.) But then comes the chorus, where every line bends upward in both pitch and volume. She's laying it on a bit thick, at the very moment when she should be backing off. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:12:48 +1000 From: Stephen Hallowes Subject: [EDA] All Music Guide Review of 0304 The All Music Guide gave 0304 a GREAT review! This is good because this review will be published on a lot of different sites selling this album - - I found it at barnes and noble.com, but I think it'll show up all over the place the way their review of This Way did! This guy hits the nail on the head, in my opinion. I couldn't agree more. Here it is: "Within the liner notes to her fourth album /0304/, Jewel includes a note to her fans, explaining that "This album may seem different to you," which is putting it mildly. For a singer that has been make low-key singer-songwriter albums so unassuming that on her debut the two singles had to be re-recorded for mass consumption, it is a big shock to put on /0304/ and hear that she has abandonded folkiness and adult-pop to make her dance-pop album, of all things. A move that's even more shocking when you consider that when this was released in June of 2003 the teen-driven dance-pop boom of the late '90s/early '00s was over, so it doesn't necessarily even sound like /part/ of the mainstream of the time, suggesting that this isn't a calculated effort to ride the latest hip trends. No, the music on /0304/ is the wild, weird result of Jewel's desire to create a "modern interpretation of big band music. A record that (is) lyric-driven, like Cole Porter stuff, that also has a lot of swing...that combined dance, urban and folk music." While the big band and Cole Porter allusions are a stretch -- although it is true that this is as lyric-driven as her previous three records -- with the assistence of producer Lester A. Mendez, she has managed to blend dance, urban and folk, complete with pop overtones, of course, in previously unimaginable ways. Like Sheryl Crow's eponymous second album, this picks up familiar strands of contemporary pop music and familiar themes in Jewel's own work, but the way they're assembled is disarmingly idiosyncratic -- it has a polished, commercial sheen, but the songs take weird twists and turns in their arrangements, structure and lyrics (another thing this shares with /Sheryl Crow/ is a prediliction for odd pop-culture references and name-dropping). More than anything, it's the weird juxtapositions in the production -- the accordions and dance beats on "Intuition," the way her protest tune "America" ends in an electro-crash, the muted jazz trumpets on her Nelly Furtado-styled "Leave the Lights On," to name just a few -- that make this an original-sounding album, something with more imagination than the average dance-pop record. Better still, it sounds more authentic (and boasts a better set of songs) than her previous records, which were either too ramshackle or too self-serious and doggedly somber to really reveal much character. Here, even if its under the veneer of commercial pop, she puts herself out on the line more than she ever has, and she's come up with her best record, with her best set of songs and best music yet. As she notes in her message to fans, "it's the first record I enjoy listening to. It's fun!" She's completely right on that note -- against all, it's the first album of hers that's a sheer pleasure to hear. /Stephen Thomas Erlewine"/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 06:58:22 -0400 From: "Gina Brumley" Subject: [EDA] Intuition "Follow your heart, your intuition, it will lead you right to the music store!" HAPPY JUNE 3RD LoL Gina, the angel who can't wait for Amazon and is going to go buy the new album today and now will have 3 copies LoL - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:04:31 EDT From: NeOblCar@aol.com Subject: [EDA] What's in your head listening to 0304 Is it just me but do you hear accoustic versions of the songs in your head when listening to 0304. I think I'll learn to accept the CD for what it is, but I hear songs like Haunted and think ... this would be cool in a Nicotine Love-type of accoustic guitar arrangement. Maybe we'll never hear another POY effort - but this is a little tougher to get used to. == Rob == "All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero," Aimee Mann ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:16:48 -0700 From: "Crystal Ackles" Subject: [EDA] Its June 3rd! I woke up today to my 4 month old crying. Usually I drag myself out of bed wishing I had another hour or so there, but today, oh today, I shot out and starting singing Jewel to my son in celebration of her new album today. I ordered mine on Amazon, and paid for same day shipping, tracked it down in amazon and it reached my town two hours ago. So I'm sure I'll have it today. I saw her on leno last night, and is it just me, or was she much more comfortable singing the song this time, than say Divas? She seemed to be truly enjoying this new direction she took. I loved the dress, see through enough to notice, but not so much it was over the top. And I don't think she was wearing grannie panties, I think its one of those really short shorts that most people wear to the pool or around the house. Did anyone else see the commercial for Jewels new album today. It goes, This is Jewel, playing WWSYS , showing the cover of POY, This is Jewel I belive playing Hands (baby crying at that moment in my ear) showing the cover of Spirit, This is Jewel, (baby still crying, think it was SS) showing the cover of TW, Then it says, This is Jewel, and it shoots to the Intuition video where shes dancing around in that little black number in front of all those lights, you know the one all the shows choose as the clip. And then says the album is out today. Heheh. I gotta go, baby needs me, HAPPY JUNE 3RD AND HAPPY 0304 DAY!! Crystal just a little excited =) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:33:52 EDT From: SullMa84@aol.com Subject: [EDA] America!!! Like the song!!! Love that she says fu**ing!!! I got my cd at Target and fu**ing is bleeped!!! Anyone else notice this? Maybe it's on all of the cds...and she talks about the Osbournes and Anna Nicole!!! + + + + + + + Jewel's new album 0304 in stores June 3rd!!! + "Intuition" Makes TRL! Let's keep it there! http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/votevideo.jhtml# + What I'm listening to: "Intuition" By Jewel "Fighter" By Christina Aguilera "Can I Walk With You" By India.Arie "Ignition (Remix) By R. Kelly + + + + + + ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 11:46:04 EDT From: JeWeLNuMbEr1FaN@aol.com Subject: [EDA] 0304=ahhhh 2 become 1 has been stuck in my head for days..like..i go to sleep singing it..then i wake up singing it...as soon as i wake up! Its driving me nuts..its like the background music in my dreams lol ~MicheLe Get out of my way, I don't like fucking waiting *Lisa Marie Presley* *If you don't like How I act or what I say...don't talk to me ..I am me , Im not gonna pretend to be someone else for you...* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:14:28 GMT From: casper31@juno.com Subject: [EDA] Jewel's Website Is anyone else having a problem accessing Jewel's official website today? 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