Jewel's "New Look" C/D?

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oh. oh my goodness. what... what... what the?

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030502/capt.1051885922.people_jewel_nyr103.jpg

― david day (winslow), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

She looks like a party scene extra from an 80's teen movie.

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

she looks awful.

― david day (winslow), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

that dress is not flattering in any way, and I LIKE jewel.

― david day (winslow), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder what her bronc-busting beau thinks of it? or perhaps they are no more? no more typical reason for an image change than a change of man.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to see the other half of her smile to say for sure.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Her snaggletooth is on her right side, isn't it?

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Gadz, even the guitar has stripes!!! Way too organized...

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Pat Benatar meets the B-52's... weird. I think I'd like this look on just about anyone else, but with Jewel it's just wrong.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

izzat a breakdancer behind her?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The bass player looks like it just dawned on him where he is and what he's doing.

― Prude (Prude), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't this the record where she starts playing techno or something?

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Clearly it's all part of her designers' plots and her corporate ad sponsors' goals! Look at that Toyota logo! < / Alex in NYC > (Just kidding, I like that there Alex feller.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

She looks like a member of the band that shows up to play Tom Hanks' bachelor party in....er...."Bachelor Party."

"Why Do Good Girls Like Bad Boys?..."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

this is perhaps the most hilarious prompt i've seen on here.

― reo fordecor, Friday, 2 May 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Her snaggletooth is on her right side, isn't it?

hahahahahha! :)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't that Lisa Kudrow?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 May 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't that Heidi out of the Sugababes?

― cis (cis), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Guys, she can be all that and more...

― jm (jtm), Friday, 2 May 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't that Trace Lords?

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

And why is Levar Burton on her stage?

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

hubba hubba kinda

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The New Wave Revival was gotten way out of hand!

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Her "new look" should be topless.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

It's just a matter of time...

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

ally are you calum?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

From MSNBC....

While resistant to being labeled, the release of Jewel’s fifth album, “0304” sends out the message that she intends to be known for more than just guitar strings and granola. But why the new look? We caught up with jewel on the set of her new video, “Intuition.”
“Jewel’s image is so set up in a certain way. I thought doing something like this would really play off of it big time and she was totally game. I mean she kept wanting to go more and more over the top with it,” says Marc Klasfeld, director of Jewel’s “Intuition” video.
Jewel says the video begins with, “a lot of the sexy outfits in the video are done in jest. It’s done as a parody of rap videos, of runways, of pop culture.”
It begins with home video as if it’s one of Jewel’s friends or a tourist filming her.
“Then we got a really cool soda ad where jewel is just kind of sitting with a bottle of soda but suddenly the camera goes in on her and the wind blows her shirt open/and she sips the soda,” says Klasfeld.
“I’m doing things in this video that I never thought I’d do… I’m dancing I’m getting sprayed down with a fire hose. It’s silly, and completely over the top and something you would absolutely see in a music video, says Jewel.
“My favorite is when our protesters, turn into dancers, do like a Britney-Christina type choreographed thing. So that’s the basic idea. So going to go from video to film, video to film, and it’s going to be this whole statement on what’s actually real in this culture of ours,” says Klasfeld.
Jewel says she enjoyed being glamorous and dressing up during the making of the video. But it didn’t always come easy. “I get embarrassed showing off my body a lot. I’ve never really wanted to be known for cleavage as much. I’m shy, something people are always really surprised about.
But that shyness isn’t on display when a crosswalk turns into a fashion runway.
Jewel says, “I had to take my robe off and there’s traffic behind me and my butt’s hanging out. It was so embarrassing. I’ve never had to quote-unquote sell out and I wanted to have a video that sort of walked that line and sort of was showing the difference between one’s normal self and one’s fantasy self or the commercialization of America, the commercialization of myself.”

So..... Where to begin?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I jsut saw it on TRL. It was a mess. End of story.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's amazing/appalling/I love it.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I was at Carey's when it came on TRL. It was indeed a mess. Isn't ironic jiggle a really late '90s/McG kinda thing? Embarassing.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but Anthony SHE LIVED IN A CAR!

(in my experience this is Jewel fans' response to anything deemed negative towards their wondergal)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

(beck fans too, in the early days)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh GOD! Has anyone started a thread about the cover of Jane with Beck and (I think...) Heather Graham on the cover! HOLY SHIT! He really has turned into Gordon Lightfoot hasn't he?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Anthony a copy of that magazine could be yours if you are a very very good boy. Or if I feel like digging it out the trash.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

you think I want to see it AGAIN, Carey?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Link me to this video.

― jm (jtm), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

what mall is she appearing at, then?

― rumplestiltskin, Friday, 2 May 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, as long as she's not writing poetry...

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Beck and Gordon Lightfoot sounds like just what the doctor ordered. After Jewel in a Pat Benatar get up.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

According to a pal, "Sea Change" should have been titled "Beck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald." He's right.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I said . . .

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds exactly like the video I would make if I was a pop star, except I wouldn't call it a commentary on modern culture, I'd call it an excuse to film myself being hosed down with a firehose.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

oh man....check out the tracklist for 0304:

1. Stand
2. Run 2 U
3. Intuition
4. Leave The Lights On
5. 2 Find U
6. Fragile Heart
7. Doin' Fine
8. 2 Become 1
9. Haunted
10. Sweet Temptation
11. Yes U Can
12. U & Me = Love
13. America
14. Becoming

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

She has long expressed her love for Prince, now it is made manifest.

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

That's not jewel, you dickheads. It's the Go Gos.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

She's making Avril look substantial.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

8. 2 Become 1

For serious, if this is a cover of the Spice Girls song, I'm buying this fucking album.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do people have their hair like that, anyway? Pat Butcher with a topknot. Grate.

She could be covering REM, Bryan Adams and Simon & Garfunkel too, by the looks of things.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

BEST ALBUM EVER!!!!!!!!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

she's also covering the Shane McGowan/Sinead O'Connor duet. Hopefully with Beck.

It really should be called Rhythm Nation 0304

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 May 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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i still love that guy in the background. dude is catatonic.

― david day (winslow), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had a nearly ten-year-long thought that she's utterly uninteresting -- this thought continues!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 May 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anyone remember an interview she did for Rolling Stone where the interviewer fell completely in love with her, and was going on about how cool her mom was?

That was great.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 5 May 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The radical re-invention of her image mirrors the simillar attempt made by the Village people circa Rennaissance.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp000/p087/p08768uth1r.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 May 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - alex in nyc otm!

dominique refers to neil strauss' rs piece, 'the nadir of 90s music journalism' according to jojo dancer (and whatever happened to that guy?).

that said she is hot

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The radical re-invention of her image mirrors the simillar attempt made by the Village people circa Rennaissance.

Yeah, but "Food Fight" is sooooo good!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

liz phair vs. jewel!

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

did liz phair ever live in a CAR???

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

she went to oberlin

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

That's an aggravating factor though.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://epguides.com/Jem/cast.jpg

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)

*swoon*

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

JEEBUS.

― jm (jtm), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

FACE THE FACTS, AMERIKANS!
COLD SLITHER IS THE NEW METALLICA...THE NEW BEATLES...THE NEW ROLLING STONES! FALL ON YOUR UNWASHED, REDNECK FACES AND WORSHIP THEM!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Gwar put you up to this annoying shit Custos?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

No. Jem and the Holograms.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

This is like playing The Fart Game with friends and having someone run over and smear shit in everyone's face; same general idea but WAAAAAAAY too strong.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ew.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Note to self: No parties at Dan's.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 7 May 2003 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

The video really is pretty damn fun. all its missing is an audience shot with 3-d glasses on.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 12 May 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Jewel is trying to follow Gwen Stefani's lead from 90's rocker girl into 00's pop diva and it's NOT WORKING.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

That's an aggravating factor though.

hey!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the video this morning. Holy crap! Had to be the most jumbled mess of shit I've seen in a long, long time, made even more interesting by the fact that you can't tell at all if it's a joke or fer real... all the while, Jewel half-smiles to cover up her snaggletooth.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Jewel seemed vaguely pissed in her recent Blender interview. I don't think she was pissed about wearing that corset on the cover though. She also didn't bring up any of that primordial stuff -- maybe little Jewel has grown up.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 2 June 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

No more horse poetry?

― jm (jtm), Monday, 2 June 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

none so far...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Jewel 'Intuition'

i enjoy all Jewel threads

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

So now Jewel has backpedaled and made a concept album about how she was seduced by the darkside of sellout dance-pop, came out a few weeks ago:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh200/h253/h25361xo5ff.jpg

"Goodbye Alice in Wonderland is the story of my life and is the most autobiographical album I have made since Pieces of You...By the end of the 13th song, if you have listened closely, you will have heard the story of the sirens song that seduced me, of a path I both followed and led, of bizarre twists and turns that opened my eyes, forcing me to find solutions so that discovering the truth would not lead to a loss of hope."

Heh. Anyone heard this one yet?

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

The title gives it away before you even hear it. I'm not sure why, but upon first hearing the album title, I thought, "moron." There's nothing wrong with being direct, but I guess somehow I got the feeling that the title was supposed to sound not direct but abstract and ethereal like dreams fading away. Instead, it sounds ditzy.

― Polish the family jewels, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed. But I still say she is the most beautiful singer in pop music.

― Dagwood, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

so what would have happened if her miserable and very very sad attempt to be a hootchy girl had worked? would this album exist? probably not. her new single would be something like "I Want 2 Live In My Car(With U)" f/ Lil Jon.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Funniest commment in ILX history. The parentheses fucking make it. Oh my God.

― Lecherous Erick, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 11:04 (nineteen years ago)

so all of that other stuff wasn't a joke?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

SHE WAS BRANEWASHED

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Allmusic sez her last album was actually secretly her best. Can anyone confirm/deny? I mean beyond "Intuition" and the actual album cover...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

i don't doubt it. anything that peps up her snoozey act could only be an improvement.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

There are nightmares on the sidewalks, there are jokes on TV, there are people selling thoughtlessness with such casualty.

― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Stand" (from the hoochie album) isn't bad. But I secretly love all of her Lilith-era singles, so what do I know.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

i like this nu-country jewel song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArAlk3yf5hI

and i like this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5bC2jTluM

and the intuition song actually sounds better to me now then it did then. i like it more than a lot fo gwen songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt5Wg25NAt8

― scott seward, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:20 (thirteen years ago)

this one sounds decent too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELFaFkpBVIs

― scott seward, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

doesn't get any more radio-friendly than this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3WMMwlHgZI

― scott seward, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

i don't need to hear "hands" though. never cared for that one.

― scott seward, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:26 (thirteen years ago)

nu-faith hill is a good look for her if you ask me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaXr2vGDQwk

― scott seward, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:31 (thirteen years ago)

and lyrically i like this one. "rock & roll cliche" indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-V7diWWlVg

― scott seward, Monday, 20 February 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)

scott i love "down so long"

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:44 (thirteen years ago)

and i like "hands" too but i guess i was the right age to get infected by like sub-tori amos

― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 20 February 2012 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

"Hands" is just so ridiculously blunt. I keep expecting there to be a further verse where she confirms that regular handwashing promotes good hygiene and helps prevent the spread of diseases.

― Tim F, Monday, 20 February 2012 22:25 (thirteen years ago)

i had a client last year that hired jewel as a surprise performer-- she was 8 mos pregnant and played only 5 songs

― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 20 February 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

i've been hyping jewel lately because of my work -- she's playing a free concert during the women's final four tournie in Denver next month.

― tylerw, Monday, 20 February 2012 22:34 (thirteen years ago)

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