Now this is an album. My ratings for individual songs are all over the board. From one to five stars, one song will cause me to erupt into impromptu dance and another will send me spinning into a rage. And yet it seems like once a month I think that I ought to listen to [...]
I bought the album for this song. I love this song. I love the fake synthesized trumpets, I love the bass line, I love the music video.
The lyrics: consistently cryptic. After much sleuthing, here are several purported meanings of this song:
1) It’s about a man having a mid-life crisis. Seems pretty reasonable, though doesn’t explain [...]
This is my favorite from the album. Classic singer-songwriter style. Nothing feels forced. Do I even detect a bridge? And the tempo is perfect.
And the words. My god, how she pairs words. It’s perfect. Imagery everywhere.
five stars.
Only because Jewel sounds delicate does this song work. I’m still not crazy about it, though I remember once really liking it. I can’t remember why.
Three.five stars.
I don’t get this song. It’s semi-rythmic. The tempo seems off.
After several minutes of thinking, too, I suspect her use of the word ‘geppettos’ must refer to the Pinocchio toymaker, and she’s saying something about puppeteers. It seems a stretch, though. Even though I like the lyrics, like the meaning, even like most of her [...]
Another great Jewel song. And that shriek/yell in the middle was fantastic. The twang is back for this song, and I’m starting to think perhaps I should buy her country album that came out a few years back. Though the country market loved that album, which scares me. Four.five stars.
I hate this song. The lyrics could be alright, I guess. But the music and the singing. No thanks. I skip it every time within the first 12 seconds. Those seconds are normally spent scrambling for the ‘Next’ button.
This is the worst bridge, too. Though at least it matches the rest of the song. One [...]
I love this song, even though it reminds me of the worst 5 years of my life. The years I lived in Cleveland, and attended Case Western Reserve Univeristy. Eesh.
It’s got that twang. I feel like all Jewel’s music deserves that twang. She’s just so good at it. Another stellar bridge, perfect imagery. It’s brilliant. [...]
This song isn’t very interesting. Even at my most sappy this song doesn’t appeal to me. That said, unlike most sappy love songs, this song doesn’t make me want to hurt myself. It gets a solid three stars for that fact.
