From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V9 #27 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Wednesday, January 28 2004 Volume 09 : Number 027 * 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 V9 #___ gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] urbandictionary.com [James Brogdon ] Re: [EDA] MSN: 'Sexing it up doesn't necessarily sell albums' [NeOblCar@a] RE: [EDA] Jewel, SoulCityCafe and Higher Ground/Clearwater.... [W1GGY2@ao] RE: [EDA] Jewel, SoulCityCafe and Higher Ground/Clearwater.... [Mike Conn] Re: [EDA] MSN: 'Sexing it up doesn't necessarily sell albums' ["shell" Subject: [EDA] urbandictionary.com I posted a definition, something unoriginal or what-have-you, but I made a plug for jewel@smoe because it'd be nice to get some fresh meat around here :) Anyway, if you haven't, check out the forums on jeweljk. James ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:07:11 EST From: NeOblCar@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] MSN: 'Sexing it up doesn't necessarily sell albums' A good article that I agreed with about half of it. My main problem is with these personality dissectors that are always trying to look backwards a few months and plot a trend, using mostly contrived links. For instance, the line talking about depressing times might be environment for the brebirthb of the singer/songwriter b& from when? Just in 1997-1999 when the women of Lilith were the rage, we were in the peak of the modern s/s popularity we were a happy-go-lucky nation. The top songs right now in this depressing time are bHey Yeahb not Johnny Cashbs greatest hit. Norah Jones and Alicia Keys (as good as they are) do not constitute a new musical movement anymore than Fiona Apple and Lisa Loeb did. If youbre good people will listen because the music audience is so diversified that there is a market for everything. That being said, they are right b if the bmarketing ideab was to slutify (hey look I invented a word) yourself to increase sales then the artist was an idiot and deserves to fall on their face. But if the idea was personal to the artist (like they woke up one morning and said to themselves, bI feel smutty todayb) then good for them and I can understand that. People should be themselves, whatever that is on a given day. Christina has been and always will (from what I can tell) be overtly sexual. For her to tone it down would be like asking the Indigo Girls to perform in leather halter tops. Who knows what Jewel was thinking b did she want her slutty and fun side to come out this year b or b was she guided this way by others looking to cash in. An does it, as I argue, make a difference to the buying public which it is? == Rob == "All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me up to zero," Aimee Mann ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 18:15:42 EST From: W1GGY2@aol.com Subject: RE: [EDA] Jewel, SoulCityCafe and Higher Ground/Clearwater.... Ducky Mike wrote: I just did some cyber-poking around and I see that HGH still does have a direct connect with Jewel & Lenedra, at least according to the Jeweljk.com website and the HGH site. It also appears that Clearwater still remains an under-project of HGH, and there is a still mention of J & L on that Clearwater site too. Of course it could be that all the websites have just not been updated to reflect the latest and greatest connections since the bloodletting in Jewel's management last year. My guess is that Lenedra and gang still "operate" Higher Ground For Humanity in some capacity while perhaps Clearwater is still associated but not under any reins of HGH, Lenedra nor Jewel. Again, just an educated guess. Perhaps some EDAF members have some info. Dennis? Amy? Well, as far as I know there is no more "gang". My friend Colleen who was in charge of HGH just under Lenedra left a few months before Lenedra announced she was taking over the charities (in fact Colleen moved out of California so it was probably a mutual thing). I think everyone else I knew there is also gone other than Shane but we don't keep in touch. Last I spoke to him he was basically in charge of Clearwater. Mike, where do you see mention of HGH on the jeweljk site? I couldn't find any. Anyway, your guess is as good as mine as far as the current relationship between Jewel and HGH. And my guess would be that Nedra and Shane are the charity people and Jewel is just another singer that donates a few bucks to good causes! ;-) Not that that's a bad thing but its a lot more meaningful in my opinion to give of your time than money. Though the amount she gave used to be impressively high....40 % of her income, I believe (and Nedra donated a whopping 60%). Anyone know if that is still the case? Amy www.edaf.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:48:10 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: RE: [EDA] Jewel, SoulCityCafe and Higher Ground/Clearwater.... I wrote a year ago or something like that: >I just did some cyber-poking around and I see that HGH still does have a >direct connect with Jewel & Lenedra, at least according to the Jeweljk.com >website and the HGH site. To which was replied to by w1gged-out Amy: > Mike, where do you see mention of HGH on the >jeweljk site? I couldn't find any. Minor ones, but the Store, Links. Don't apply for any website detective jobs. ;-) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:03:58 -0500 (EST) From: "shell" Subject: Re: [EDA] MSN: 'Sexing it up doesn't necessarily sell albums' Hrm. I'm curious as to where they got...any of that. That whole "Britney's sales were super when she was wholesome,"...you mean when she was strutting about selling the schoolgirl fantasy? Right, right-o. It seems to me that if it was okay and rosey sunshine then, they're saying "It's okay for you to be the kind of sexy WE like, and you have to stay with that." Sexy is okay as long as they like it. 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