Best Lyricists?

[Cornflake Girl]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I dunno, there are some truly terrible lyrics on that album. "Old Spice is nice, but sweat is better, e-mail is cool, but romance lives in a letter, batteries are fine, but I'm energized all the time, U and me spells l-o-v-e"

Point taken. I think I've listened to that album a total of two times. I think some of 'Intuition' is pretty amusing though; 'you learned cool from magazines, you learned love from Charlie Sheen.'

Those you posted are the kind of lyrics 'Perfectly Clear' is filled with. I don't know what it is with Jewel, her lyrics can be wonderfully insightful but also sickeningly insipid.

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

Point taken. I think I've listened to that album a total of two times. I think some of 'Intuition' is pretty amusing though; 'you learned cool from magazines, you learned love from Charlie Sheen.'

Those you posted are the kind of lyrics 'Perfectly Clear' is filled with. I don't know what it is with Jewel, her lyrics can be wonderfully insightful but also sickeningly insipid.

I think because that album is kind of a love letter to her husband Ty, so it's a bit sickly sweet and school-girlish. The lyrics to Rosey And Mick are quite poignant but I think that's a much older song. Btw, did you know that Linda's Heart Like A Wheel was her inspiration for that album? It's doesn't live up to that though.

[Cornflake Girl]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I think because that album is kind of a love letter to her husband Ty, so it's a bit sickly sweet and school-girlish. The lyrics to Rosey And Mick are quite poignant but I think that's a much older song. Btw, did you know that Linda's Heart Like A Wheel was her inspiration for that album? It's doesn't live up to that though.

I didn't know that! I've always known Jewel had good taste. It really doesn't live up to it.

I actually think 'Goodbye Alice..' was a better country album, though 'Perfectly Clear' was supposedly her first play for the country audience,

[trackaghost]

Yeah, I agree, I actually think Goodbye Alice In Wonderland is one of her best albums. Her new one, Lullaby, is a bit of a snooze-fest sadly.

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by Cornflake Girl

Point taken. I think I've listened to that album a total of two times. I think some of 'Intuition' is pretty amusing though; 'you learned cool from magazines, you learned love from Charlie Sheen.'

Those you posted are the kind of lyrics 'Perfectly Clear' is filled with. I don't know what it is with Jewel, her lyrics can be wonderfully insightful but also sickeningly insipid.

Did you know that she wrote U+Me+LOVE for Holly Valance and she ended up doing it herself becase a) she liked how it turned out or b) Holly Valance turned it down?!

Can you believe that?! Jesus, if Holly Valance is turning your songs down you're in trouble. Then again, if you think songs like that should be on your own album instead then you're in trouble too!