26 November 2001
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I bought Jewel's new CD, this way, on Saturday. I'm not sure why, as I haven't bought any of her music since Pieces of You, that I actually bought used, but I really love the song "Standing Still," so I thought, why not. Plus, I'd read in People that she recorded this album in Nashville and that it shows. The reviewer probably wrote it negatively, but it was a bonus for me. Plus she's dating some rodeo star, (she wrote "Break Me" for him) and I find that oddly endearing. But I really love the song that made me impulsively buy the disc and I can't quite put my finger why. But I do. It makes me want to learn how to belly dance. Chorus She's drunk on fresh love, but she doesn't know if he cares, or if he's even out there. You have to stand still and take it all in, because if you move, you might fall. Or something like that, I don't know. The great thing about Jewel is that she just writes. Some of the time it's crap and sometimes it makes no sense. (For example, track seven "Serve the Ego" - I have no idea what she's talking about. Something about raising your hands on the dance floor to a deity, which must be Ego? I don't know. Does that make me stupid? That Jewel's over my head?) But sometimes, she finds something and it clicks and you listen to it 25 times in a row and sit in front of your dorm room window and smoke 89,000 cigarettes. "Foolish Games," anyone? I remember that Pony had taped a bunch of 120 off MTV the summer of '95 and we watched it a lot when we came back to school sophomore year and the video for "Who Will Save Your Soul" was on the tape. We watched it constantly and wondered if she'd fix her teeth if she got popular. We felt all indignant when she started getting radio play that spring. Sort of like when Alanis got big. God we were such girls. I also really love the title track. It starts out: Love be still Who in love hasn't felt that? When you close your eyes and try to burn it all in. Try to convince yourself that if you just keep this one instant that nothing else will matter because it'll all come back to this one moment you have photographed in your mind. Because you know that right then, in that snapshot, that what you're feeling is true and later, when you're tired, angry, confused, scared - those feelings might drown out the truth. But not if you freeze it. Not if you remember how it was when it was "this way." Plus she wrote a song about Cleveland, and while I sort of hate Cleveland (sorry Kimi) how can I diss an homage to my state? Plus she said that people were worried that it was "too country." Sure, she has a slide guitar, but too country? No. (As if anything can be too country anyway.) And you know, I didn't even really want to talk about this, but it's playing and so here I am. Am I making any sense? Am I going to post this? I guess we'll find out.
The notify and I are exchanging Christmas cards! If you're not on the list, and you'd still like to participate, send me your address and I'll email you my mail drop. Mail is fun. But only when it's anthrax free.
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