Please explain Jewel. Also, what singer or group do you not understand why

[bobweaver]

they are so successful? I have never understood why Jewel was such a big success. I listened to some of her stuff but it made me feel I was in an elevator. And when she sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 1998, it was obviously lip-synched, as the voice started before she opened her mouth. I just don't get her and why she was such a huge success.
The second question is what singer or group do you not understand why they are such a big success.

[Beaverhausen]

1. She had huge...

...tracts of land.

yeah, that's it.

[StopTheMorans]

2. and great teeth to boot. n/t

[Streetdoc270]

3. Lil John....

plus Menudo

I really can't understand Jessica Simpson. She can't sing.

[bobweaver]

27. Jessica Simpson just mangled "O Holy Night" on "The View." Celine Dion did

a passionate recording of it that was played a lot on the radio last week - what an unfortunate choice Simpson made, it really shows the stark difference in style and talent between the two women.

[tjdee]

4. Paris Hilton and her upcoming album on her Heiress label.

Will sell at least a million just because she's rich and recycled.
Wish I could find the pic of her before she got the plastic surgery, blonde hair dye, and blue contacts.

Oh here it is:
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/005276.html

[Elise]

5. Here's Paris before the 'work':

[tjdee]

9. Hahahaha!!

[jobycom]

14. I had a crush on Paris Hilton's aunt as a kid

She played Tia on "Escape to Witch Mountain." So I have a soft spot for Paris.

Not much of one, though.

[terrya]

6. Ashlee Simpson.

I barely understand Jessica Simpson, let alone her sister.

[redqueen]

11. I think Ashlee sings better than Jessica

Priceless

[sniffa]

13. that wouLd make a great avatar

[AlCzervik]

32. That dance she's doing there

it looks like she's channeling Dexy's midnight runners.

[sniffa]

12. other way around

i don't understand jessica (she makes those hideous faces when she sings too). ashLee i understand, because she's a famous person's sibLing (with horribLe bangs).

[Butterflies]

7. I guess Jewel's poetry is supposed to be DEEP

I haven't heard anything about her for a few years though. Is she still making CDs? Maybe she's reduced to just making a Christmas CD each year (William Hung is doing that too - yea, that American Idol guy.)

[Goathead]

8. Jewel is Ricky Martin

Ricky Martin is Jewel. Does that clear things up?

[JohnKleeb]

28. two mins to showtime Jewel

:D

[jobycom]

10. I love Jewel, passionately. I never got James Taylor or Steely Dan

One of my favorite songwriters. She had a Jacques Brel sound, and her lyrics were poignant and fresh when they were released. She has a good voice, and in her first two albums sung with a playful tease to her voice. Sean Penn called her the Bob Dylan of her generation after her first album, and though obviously she never lived up to that, the songs on her first album, especially, were well written.

James Taylor is like Woody Allen or Neil Simon to me-- every word sung is about himself, and I'm supposed to care about how beautiful he is. I swear Carly wrote "You're so vain" about him. Even if she didn't, it fits. Plus his voice was awful, and his melody lines little better than average speech.

Steely Dan-- I don't know, I can kind of hear why people like them, I just hate the lead vocals, and find the music flat and uninspired. They had cool rythms, though, and their finished product at least sounded like they worked on it and meant for it to sound that way-- unlike, say, James Taylor, or Poison.

[vpigrad]

26. Abt Dylan

> Sean Penn called her the Bob Dylan of her generation after her first album

Dylan's the guy I never understood. If you're going to be too lazy to even try to enunciate, I'm going to be too lazy to buy your record.

[RUDUing2]

15. Jagger and Stones..and Disco as a whole.

[Liberal Veteran]

16. Jewel's first album "Pieces of You" was quite good.

She had a unique sound at the time and it was pretty decent music.

Her more recent stuff isn't as good, but she is certainly better than some like Jessica Simpson, etc.

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Agreed. I wish I knew why she wandered away from her original

sound.

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[Beware the Beast Man]

17. This is why I detest Jewel:

A couple of years ago, Time (or maybe it was Newsweek)ran a cover story about the Lilith Fair titled "Jewel & the Gang," and obvious pun on "Kool and the Gang." Apparently Jewel took umbrage to the "gang" connotation, blasting the magazine for for being unfair to her and the rest of the Lilith performers. She was completely clueless. Oh, and the "pop" album she did a couple years ago showed how little integrity she had in the first place.

[bif]

18. I saw her last summer

Just her and her guitar. She was pretty good, I have to admit. Also, the tickets were free.

[warrior1]

19. Saw jewel

in a hair dying commerical yesterday. I wasn't sure it was her, till I saw the teeth.

She had a few good songs then she sold out.

[dbonds]

20. Nirvana

I never understood why they were so big. Always sounded like a bad garage band with a singer that was so drunk he couldn't speak. I know they were supposed to be the new wave of anti-establishment, but there were good bands that were also anti-establishment (Queensryche comes to mind).

[dean_dem]

21. Dave Matthews/ Phish

Its like a cult. And for what? An overrated bar band? I just want to grab some of those people and tell them they are wasting their life.

[Rob H.]

29. Thank God I'm not the only one!

I have friends who love Dave Matthews Band and I can't stand them, mainly because there was a year-long span where it seemed as if every third song on the radio was one of theirs.

As for jam bands like Phish, well, to me it sounds like overlong pointless guitar wankery. Just MHO.

[ThorsHammer]

22. No idea on Jewel (more)

I can't understand the success of Paris Hilton, Ashley and Jessica Simpson, Olson twins, Ja Rule, Sean Combs (music success, nothing against his business success), Hillary Duff, and any boy band.

[jandrok]

23. Linkin Park

I don't understand. At all. Please enlighten me. Seriously. I'd like to know.

[no name no slogan]

24. The Grateful Dead

I never got it. The music was always second-rate folk-rock. their "experimentalism" consisted of some wanky 45-minute guitar solo over some tired twelve-bar blooze chord pattern. The vocals were like fingernails on the chalkboard. Their "far out" music was actually very conservative for the time when you consider the other stuff that was emerging at the same time (The Velvet Underground, The Fugs, Hendrix, even Jefferson Airplane).

I never got the Dead, and I never got Deadheads either. Of course I was never a big weed enthusiast, either.

[Gemini Cat]

30. I don't like them either.

I'll give them credit however, they never sold out. Other than that, I can't stand them.

[redqueen]

31. Limp Bizkit, Insane Clown Posse

back in the day: Poison, Dokken, Whitesnake...

[mvd]

33. Well, I find her to have a nice voice

It's fragile and unique. She does compact folk/pop that has an accessible sound. Personally I like her, yet this time I agree about a pop album not being so good: I don't think she's a fit for a dancy sound. Though the song she originally meant for Kylie Minogue would have been good in her hands.

I never got the appeal of Bjork. It just sounds like art that went awry. I'll never understand her just like I'll never understand the people who don't like James Taylor or Nirvana.