It's so sad how she sold out with such casualty

@StrickenWithFear

6 жыл бұрын

William Seamon God, that was too good. Should've thought of that.

@RyanStorey1231

6 жыл бұрын

+

@nathanshlap

6 жыл бұрын

The only causality was her career.

@peachmelba1000

6 жыл бұрын

The word is casualness...but yeah, bummer. Have to admit, though, she looked pretty smokin' hot while doing so.

@ToddintheShadows

6 жыл бұрын

Best comment

Seems like a good time to point out that this album debuted at #2 on the BB200, behind… Metallica’s St. Anger!

@the_sky_is_blue_and_so_am_I

Жыл бұрын

Oh heck

@CSXIV

Жыл бұрын

So it's a trainwreck that that crashed into another trainwreck.

@Angel-of8kz

Жыл бұрын

2003 was also the year Limp Bizkit released their own potential Trainwreckord, Results May Vary. It seems like that was the year of trainwreck

@hurri.

Жыл бұрын

Jewel’s lifestyle truly did determine her deathstyle.

@nikeneon3188

Жыл бұрын

@@Angel-of8kz Kinda funny, but it debut at #3

10:49 "Waitress brings me lunch. We meet but do not touch." ...Were you expecting a hug or something?

@hucklebucklin

3 жыл бұрын

Contactless delivery, stay covid safe

@venichen1

3 жыл бұрын

Funny how that got super relevant in 2020.

@marcosomercrest486

2 жыл бұрын

I get it. I also ask for a happy ending in all retail and/or service industry situations.

@gut853

Ай бұрын

That line walked so Jacob Sartorious could run

The whole comparing her to “an emotional Miss Piggy” is extra hilarious because I remember an interview with her where she mentioned that she cried the first time she heard herself on the radio because she thought she sounded like Kermit the frog.

@nomobobby

3 жыл бұрын

Kermit may be improvement than a couple of those songs Todd played. I'm sure she's a talented, creative soul but I 1000% agree with Todd on this one. 5 years later she would've easily won American Idol with that level over singing. Ugh.

@comettamer

3 жыл бұрын

Kermit at least has the ability to be funny.

@rawkhawk414

3 жыл бұрын

That is so poetic 😅😂

@neutralman9124

3 жыл бұрын

@@nomobobby As a huge Kelly Clarkson fan I feel personally attacked lol

@nomobobby

3 жыл бұрын

@@neutralman9124 If it helps I wasn't aiming for her. She turned out fine. Just that those shows bring out more sob stories than actual talent, especially now with +15 years of overplay. And I wish those "talent" shows would go away, every last one of them. Its not good music and a game of "What was faked for TV?" is more interesting than most episodes, especially on the auditions prerecorded. Somebody has to be talking to the contestants in the other room, trying to bring out that kind of stuff for the cameras. Good idea, but its overplayed. If TV had any good ideas to replace it they've done it long time ago. They're the daytime soaps of primetime and its B-O-R-I-N-G

I’m sorry the old jewel can’t come to the phone right now Why Because she’s dead

@rasix86

5 жыл бұрын

She's not. Her last album was just that. Raw, old Jewel.

@noreski435

5 жыл бұрын

@@rasix86 r/woosh

@JB-mw9pj

4 жыл бұрын

@@rasix86 BRUH

@calibaby6913

4 жыл бұрын

​@@TheRandomSapphire True, but she had established herself as a pop singer with 1989 and before that had already established herself enough in the music industry to make those types of shifts with sound/style.

@becuaseimbored3481

4 жыл бұрын

Fuck you

God, all the "U"s instead of "You" is just so early 2000's

@elizabethashley42

6 жыл бұрын

It was heinous then, it's heinous now.

@RobHeathers

6 жыл бұрын

Prince & Sinead O'Connor were ahead of their time then?

@louschwick7301

6 жыл бұрын

i still do it i mean, if "i" can be "i", then "you" be "u" admittedly, it's ugly, but highly efficient - like fanny packs

@Logan912

6 жыл бұрын

Devo beat everyone to the punch in 1980 with "Girl U Want."

@kaiokendo

5 жыл бұрын

"Hold my beer" -Color me Badd

7:43-7:46 Maybe that line should've gone "You learned love from magazines, you learned cool from Charlie Sheen." That would probably make more sense.

@elizabethschubert7803

3 жыл бұрын

I think the lyric was sort of a wry joke to begin with. Charlie Sheen was a player, which would imply that his definition of love is more to do with conquests than commitment. That’s the point Jewel was driving at.

@Anomaly188

3 ай бұрын

Except Charlie Sheen was never cool. He's always been a cringe coke fiend who destroys anything good in his life.

@ricardoediza2690

2 ай бұрын

@@Anomaly188thats the point. theyre learning about love abd cool from the wrong places

Jewel was the 90's version of "We Live In A Society"

@josephtelegen8754

4 жыл бұрын

Lauryn Hill was *way* deeper than Jewel and her Unplugged album was much better than this shit. I have actually listened to both from start to finish because Todd has tainted my life.

@josephtelegen8754

4 жыл бұрын

Tainted should have been "enriched."

@vita1ogy.

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephtelegen8754 You can just edit your original comment to add that in.

@josephtelegen8754

4 жыл бұрын

@@vita1ogy. It's funnier if I don't.

@vita1ogy.

4 жыл бұрын

@@josephtelegen8754 Valid.

"big band", "interpretation", "casualty" words jewel doesn't know the definition of.

@MrSkerpentine

4 жыл бұрын

Jewel makes Scott Steiner look like Adrian D. Holmes

@NovemberXXVII

4 жыл бұрын

@Clara J Actually I'm pretty sure she used that one correctly. It might not apply to the song but "pastiche" would be the word for it had she pulled it off.

@atomicdancer

4 жыл бұрын

She turned that whole music video into one big pistachio.

@redhotlizard2636

4 жыл бұрын

Her definition of the first term don't mean a thing because it ain't got that swing.

@TimmyTickle

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrSkerpentine "I'VE SANG A LOT OF COUNTRIES"

That song 'America' sounds like a generic pop song from the Jimmy Neutron movie

@smawesomeness

4 жыл бұрын

You're thinking of Kids in America by Cascada and it's way better than this shit XD

@stephenemmett9753

4 жыл бұрын

@@smawesomeness In fact it's by No Secrets, a cover of Kim Wilde's 1981 New Wave hit.

@nomobobby

3 жыл бұрын

I could see the thought process of "Make it sound like a catchy, normal song to highlight the lyrics" Problem is the lyrics are confused throughout the project. And the 2nd half of it sounds like the label crossed out all 9 of her first drafts for being "too political" so why freaking bother. "'We love spam in America!' Whatever..." *mutters something inaudibility about the tyrannical label*

@smawesomeness

3 жыл бұрын

@paula lol fair enough, it was the first version I heard, so knight it was their own~ when I first heard it I was young and damb and didn't care enough to look it up XD

@FIXTREME

3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure you aren't thinking about "I'll be your Everything" by Youngstown?

“Waitress brings me lunch, we meet but do not touch”, I can’t tell if that line has aged extremely well or extremely poorly.

@crazyiscrazy1288

3 жыл бұрын

Both

@SrSacaninha

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I mean, no.

@phastinemoon

Жыл бұрын

Given that she rewrote “Hands” to be about washing your hands during the lockdown, I’m going with… well.

@Rafamawyin

3 ай бұрын

Yo me, extremely well. The whole album in fact. It’s a dance Jem!

@kakyointhemilfhunter4273

2 ай бұрын

I don't recall waitresses ever making physical contact...? That seems weird

You know, watching this made me curious to look into Jewel's career - and her backstory is wild. Abusive father suffering from PTSD from the Vietnam War, homeless at age 18, started playing in coffee shops to get off the street, she got discovered from there, ended up being part-mentored by Bob Dylan, her mother became her manager and screwed her over multiple times until she cut her off altogether in 2002. She seems like a nice enough person, and it's good that she's maintained a career and seems to be living happily now once all is said and done. Definitely feels like there were good intentions behind 0304, between the upbeat pop sound and the attempted social commentary lyrics? Just really feels like it was way beyond her abilities. As well as probable outside (record company) pressure and influence.

@brandonpage7087

2 жыл бұрын

Cool backstory. I never knew that about Jewel. I knew that she had struggled & paid her dues. Unlike the majority of today's most popular artists, who usually get careers after winning tv competitions, like American Idol or America's got talent. Lmao!!

@artbk

2 жыл бұрын

She was part Phoebe from Friends, part Britney Spears.

@kenrickeason

2 жыл бұрын

I think the Record Company wanted some of that Pop Music money so they might pressure her into doing a Pop Album.. Nothing wrong with doing Pop music, a person just need to be able to pull it off.. Folk Music is her heart and that's what she is made for..

@WobblesandBean

2 жыл бұрын

I always thought she was rather pretentious and haughty.

@MattTee1975

Жыл бұрын

She's a Kilcher- don't let those "hard luck" stories fool you. She was never "on the street".

Courtney Love called Gwen Stefani a cheerleader as a diss, so Gwen responded with telling Courtney to watch as she takes over the world as one and later dropped Hollaback Girl.

@dma69nyc

2 жыл бұрын

Hence why Courtney hasn't had a hit since Celebrity Skin. All she has in her arsenal is dissing anyone and everyone to stay relavent. Sad.

@joaquinlezcano2372

2 жыл бұрын

@@dma69nyc don't forget being Cobain ex wife

@DaviniaHill

2 жыл бұрын

@@dma69nyc Love has a third of Nirvana's money, she doesn't need to work.

@yudhabagaskara98

2 жыл бұрын

@@dma69nyc to make things worse, no one remembered hole album back in 2010

@ilyanagalen9320

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I think Gwen just forgot to get to the actually taking over the world part. Weird because even Love has more cred than Gwen Stefani after she decided to go pop for some reason.

Shakira used to also be that girl with a guitar. she sold out aswell, but didi it well. English speakers never got to see that side of her

@plankcaller

5 жыл бұрын

I prefer Pies Descalzos Shakira but she's still pretty good most of the time.

@murciadoxial8056

5 жыл бұрын

I think Jewel was aware of the pre sellout shakira, because her first album has a lot of that pies descalzos in it, and I don't think that's a coincidence

@wellesradio

5 жыл бұрын

I never understood the appeal of post-sellout Shakira.

@ticoangelo

5 жыл бұрын

@@wellesradio ​ i do understand. i don't like it at all, but i got it. at least she *tries* to keep it real, unlike others. I miss the brunette Shakira...

@dummytree

5 жыл бұрын

Liz Phair sold out in an amazing way as well.

"I'm Also A Genie In A Bottle" is my favourite Jewel song.

@joeybatmania9327

2 жыл бұрын

That one makes a great trilogy with “It’s Gonna Be Me Too” and “Oops! I Did It As Well”

@2-d_in_a_bag

2 жыл бұрын

just you wait until she brings out "everytime we also touch"

@xxxbloodyrists666xxx7

2 жыл бұрын

Personally I prefer Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) [And I’m Also Here Too]

@shawnfields2369

Жыл бұрын

@@xxxbloodyrists666xxx7 Me too.

@1000huzzahs

Жыл бұрын

@@joeybatmania9327 Yeah, but "Hit Me Baby Two More Times" never gets the love it deserves

"six short years." six years is an eternity in music time. That's enough time for entire genres to come and go multiple times.

@miameramusic

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Six years 'aint what it used to be, but back then it was an eternity.

@jmckenzie962

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just look at what happened with shoegaze initially. In 1990 it was the hot new thing in British music, by 1993 grunge and Britpop were the big thing and shoegaze was yesterday's news, hence NME giving Souvlaki a negative review. Now obviously shoegaze lived on in the underground but in terms of the mainstream six years is an extremely long time for something to remain relevant.

@Chris-mc2dt

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmckenzie962 Then Britpop was pretty much dead by 97, and grunge wasn’t long for this world either

@jmckenzie962

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chris-mc2dt Yes. The original grunge scene was long gone by 97, replaced by all the shitty "post-grunge" butt rock that came in its wake. And of course Oasis put out the turd of an album that was "Be Here Now" that year, Blur deliberately jettisoned Britpop on their self-titled album, and let's not forget this was also the year of OK Computer which was basically a middle finger to all the Cool Britannia ideology that Britpop pushed. So yeah, both grunge and Britpop pretty much lost all mainstream relevance in 97.

@dclikemtndew

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pick any 2 years that are 6 years apart and think about the music that was biggest in those years. It's always wildly different.

Jewel’s career was always so weird. In 1995, on the back of her first album, Atlantic sent her on tour opening for Peter Murphy. While Murphy had been a pre-Nirvana alt-rock guy for a while, he always was dogged with the whole “godfather of goth” thing, so the audiences on that tour were full of mopey, black clad college students. To say they didn’t take kindly to yodeling folky Jewel would be an understatement. I felt kind of bad for her. I met her after a Murphy show, and she was very sweet. She accidentally felt up my girlfriend when trying to complement her shirt, apologized awkwardly, and then we got some glares from her then-bf Sean Penn. I bought her albums kind of out of pity, and they were fine and not terrible. Then 0304 came out and I noped tf out.

@timmy841212

3 жыл бұрын

@Knock Out Sean Penn done dated every famous blonde, hasn't he?

@josephtelegen8754

3 жыл бұрын

Sean Penn was, is, and will always be a total dick.

@maxpowr90

3 жыл бұрын

@@timmy841212 Taylor Swift hasn't wrote a breakup song about him.

@kurtcobainpizza5606

3 жыл бұрын

@Knock Out he dates emotionally fucked up women with servere daddy issues. He recently married Vincent D'onofrio daughter..imagine how fucked up she is to be pimped off by her own dad to his "best friend". Creepy fucks

@dirtydave2691

3 жыл бұрын

I bet Peter Murphy was cool though.

"Intuition" is sad because had any other popstar released it, it would've been an absolute smash. It would've been wonderful as a Britney Spears thing. It didn't fit with Jewel, but it's a pretty cool song that was done incorrectly.

@jojoversus1100

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like a Shakira or a Christina Aguilera song

@tegantalks9612

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, when it came out I thought it was a Pink song because it sounded similar to some of the stuff off her first albums.

@caesarorzell600

2 жыл бұрын

@@tegantalks9612 Sorta?

@PeriwinklePangolin24

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a little iffy on some aspects of it, but there's a lot of little moments that make me wish it came together better, I think it could have been a good, silly pop song.

@peterlpv

2 жыл бұрын

Intuition is a shitty song, darling. Period.

“Ah,I’m groaning in ironic agony” damn way to explain 90s grunge

@PassiveNights

4 жыл бұрын

Jerrell 2 I do that every day

@jeevithrai7994

3 жыл бұрын

@@taffysaur he really hated Pearl Jam because they weren't "real" enough for him. Eddie has never said a bad word about him though.

@FIXTREME

3 жыл бұрын

@@taffysaur I agree. Let's face the hard facts: Kurt Cobain was a little bitch boy. He was the grunge Holden Caulfield. Nothing was real enough for him, not even life.

@dvt1393

3 жыл бұрын

@@FIXTREME I love Nirvana's music... But, yeah. You're totally right.

@CylindricalWhistle

3 жыл бұрын

@@taffysaur sadly, being a great talent doesn't mean you're necessarily great in any other aspect of your life. John Lennon physically abused his wife and basically abandoned his first kid.

Gotta hand it to Jewel: she managed to both unironically say "we live in a society" AND pass off her terrible media as "ironic" long before it was cool.

@user-er5mg6zj4v

Ай бұрын

really makes you think

Jewel looks like she wants to play Jenifer Lawrence in a made for tv movie.

@NJGuy1973

6 жыл бұрын

When Jewel first got famous in the mid-'90s, it was remarked how she was a doppelganger for both Renee Zellweger, who had just done "Jerry Maguire," and Joey Lauren Adams, who had just done "Chasing Amy."

@mj-yo7vt

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@NA-kz5po

4 жыл бұрын

@LTrain 45 👀

@JennaLeigh

3 жыл бұрын

I mean...ok. Jennifer Lawrence was still a nobody during Jewel's time in the sun....

@ktownshutdown21

3 жыл бұрын

@@JennaLeigh Jennifer Lawrence was literally a child during Jewel's time, lol, was that meant to be a dig? Because it wasn't 🤪

Ooof, that "casualty" thing is painful...how in the hell did nobody catch that? It could've been changed so easily too, from "...such casualty" to "...so casually".

@patrickreed7993

5 жыл бұрын

don't you mean "with such casualty?"

@bobomob111

5 жыл бұрын

In context works better as "With such casual ease" Kinda wrote herself into a corner there.

@davidbaird2211

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Dennett “with such flippancy” or “so flippantly” There. Done

@moonlily1

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why no one handling an artist's career points things it out when they write embarrassing things in lyrics. Like Sammy Hagar's 'Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy' has a line about "hot, sweet cherries on the vine". Yes, cherries, on a vine. Someone should be looking out for these people instead of letting them publish this nincompoopery and put it out into the world, forever.

@michaelfarrow5817

4 жыл бұрын

Many years ago, I was reading an article by somebody who'd worked A&R for many labels and spoke of pushing Jewel to "be more profound". Which she did by randomly changing lyrics.

The lesson: Even if you’re only pretending to sell out, you’re still selling out.

@TheEvilWarlock

3 жыл бұрын

It's true. Irony can only carry you so far in life.

@ParsnipPizza

3 жыл бұрын

The people in the comments of Intuition have not learned that

@jeevithrai7994

3 жыл бұрын

The Who Sell Out is a masterclass on how to do this type of critique properly.

@FIXTREME

3 жыл бұрын

People that pretend to sell out are even *worse* than genuine sellouts, because they can't even fake something honestly.

@lordmanshaft1112

3 жыл бұрын

Even if youre only eating shit for artistic purposes, youre still eating shit

"most of us are failures" thanks todd, i needed to hear that.

what sucks is the part of the Intuition chorus with the two slides upward is so hard to forget Follow your heeEEAART You intuITION

@elizabethschubert7803

3 жыл бұрын

And the way she only pronounces the first half of “follow” or speeds through her enunciation of “easy” in order to make the lyrics fit the meter. Like Todd said... doesn’t scan properly. Too many syllables.

@MiketheNerdRanger

2 жыл бұрын

No, what sucks is that part *isn't* hard to forget. It's stuck in my head and I *hate* it

@Brillemeister

2 жыл бұрын

Just follow your hot bang bang

@briangronberg6507

3 ай бұрын

I thought it was “Follow your big bank.”

"Most of us are failures." - Todd In The Shadows, 2017

@nathanshlap

6 жыл бұрын

SuperLowlander It's true.

@Rikku147

6 жыл бұрын

SuperLowlander going on my tombstone

@jlprizm

6 жыл бұрын

Truth.

@xNeo64

6 жыл бұрын

I'm the biggest failure

@flyingsnake3737

6 жыл бұрын

The statistics prove it.

"I'm pretty sure Charlie Sheen has never even been in a romance movie." I'll see that, and raise you: "All Dogs Go To Heaven 2."

@DrZuluGaming

4 жыл бұрын

I'm really disappointed he didn't sing his song like Burt Reynolds did in the first movie.

@johnindigo5477

4 жыл бұрын

@@rommix0 how old are you

@mimkyodar

4 жыл бұрын

Um... Food Fight?

@josephtelegen8754

3 жыл бұрын

I mean Platoon was a transparent homosocial matter betwixt Charles and Dafoe.

@MrSkerpentine

3 жыл бұрын

It was romantic until Sheen’s character killed Gordon Freeman out of nowhere! >:(

So that "America" song is hard to process anyway, but did she actually try to imply that our wanting to arrest a pedophile was a bad thing?

@countof3everybodyOD

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like she was saying it was good. I hope

@AnArchyRulzz

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe she was saying it was weird Polanski isnt allowed into America, but worse people come into America like dictators. That is a super charitable interpretation though lol

@DStecks

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnArchyRulzz It's also literally the opposite of reality, the government would absolutely love it if Roman Polanski returned to America

@tafua_a

3 жыл бұрын

I hope it was the lyric the label put in...

@thatlemonadeguy6742

2 жыл бұрын

Polanski isn't even banned from America, he just won't come back cuz he would get immediately arrested.

"We're getting tanned in America We're eating spam in America" I almost peed from laughter 😂😂😂

@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770

5 жыл бұрын

Ironicaly of course

@michaelboydston313

2 жыл бұрын

Polanski is banned in America

@kidwaryodproduction

5 ай бұрын

"We are living in Amerika Amerika, Is Wunderbarrrr" Rammstein

@tafua_a

3 ай бұрын

@@kidwaryodproduction The thing that makes that song much better is the fact that Rammstein are, in fact, not living in America, in spite of all the American stuff Europe is constantly influenced by. "Music comes from the White House and in front of Paris there's Mickey Mouse".

@kidwaryodproduction

3 ай бұрын

@@tafua_a "Music comes from the White House" always remind me of German/English band called "Picnic at the Whitehouse" 😄

Anytime I heard of Jewel is was mostly through MST3K jokes like "Oh man, it's Jewel reading some of her poetry."

@christopherminutolo9384

6 жыл бұрын

MST3K is one of my favorite shows... ever.

@Maniac536

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite joke about her in mst3k was the time a singer was knocked out while lip syncing and they said (as the vocals were still playing as she was passed out on the floor) “well at least she’s better than jewel.” Probably ripping on her bad lip sync at the super bowl

The irony that the fluke dance hit that inspired this album was called “Serve the Ego” will never stop being hilarious to me.

@theunwelcome

2 ай бұрын

I love that, that's the kind of thing that can only happen in real life because if someone tried to write it into a movie or tv show it'd be rejected for being too obvious and stupid and on-the-nose

That song "America" sounds almost like Jewel trying to write Halsey's "New Americana" twelve years early. Todd was right: she really should've waited until the 2010s to release something like this.

@lookbovine

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, since record companies let you do that…

@kidwaryodproduction

5 ай бұрын

And year later, Rammstein released "Amerika"

I bet one day Todd will do an episode of trainreckords on someone and the next week they'll have a number one hit

@MissyR

6 жыл бұрын

Barney TheDinosaur Toddstradamus strikes again

@darkhero-3097

6 жыл бұрын

Barney TheDinosaur That is how it usually happens.

@dustymax56

6 жыл бұрын

Barney TheDinosaur they just announced she has a circdu solei show based on her, if that counts

@MyMessyMind

6 жыл бұрын

Don't Ask Productions How are they basing a show on her..?

@TheSongwritingCat

6 жыл бұрын

I would settle for a second season of Platinum Hit.

To top it all, she clearly doesn't know what a pastiche is. A pastiche is an imitation, yes, but it's an imitation intended to celebrate the original work, unlike a parody, which is a criticism of the work. She's promoting vapid pop.

@murciadoxial8056

5 жыл бұрын

what else did you expect from the lady that thinks that casualty is a synonym of casualness?

@qty1315

5 жыл бұрын

I think she meant 'satire'.

@Torthrodhel

5 жыл бұрын

I gotta language on a superfluous level! Can't be flamed 'cause I'm inflammable. I like pastiche ice cream, it's nuts. My lyrical muscles are strong like metal, they're ironic! I rock this sparkly sequel dress like a rapid animal. My quality's on parody with all the greats! My fans are packed like sardonic in the stands. I'm a world-wide pheremone, chill the hates! My music's so sexy it'll give you an organism! Stopped riding my recycle when it got a punctuation. I dare say the edgy things 'cause I'm irrelevant. Join the revulsion! And buy my new CD music compulsion.

@DGilVids

5 жыл бұрын

@@Torthrodhel My eyes...

@murciadoxial8056

5 жыл бұрын

@@Torthrodhel Is like poetry!

Todd's delivery of "What the fuck are you talking about?" when Jewel talks about a homeless man paying for something for her and her friend is just perfect.

I can't wait when he covers Witness by Katy Perry in two or three years time

@patricklauer4452

4 жыл бұрын

Aoba Suzukaze same

@livwake

4 жыл бұрын

Aoba Suzukaze her career didn’t completely end, she has a new album coming out

@liquidstone14

3 жыл бұрын

@@livwake and how did that go for her

@timcosgrove707

3 жыл бұрын

@Luis Collado yeah, I think that trainwreckords should cover career cripplers as well as career killers.

@franco1926

3 жыл бұрын

@Luis Collado not to mention, Madonna at that time was already a popular icon. Her career was already locked and safe. Jewel wasn't and isn't.

Hey, so, I'm sorry about the weirdness of the Kurt Loder clip.... apparently it sounds weird if you do it with mono speakers... plug in your headphones and it should sound fine, I have no freaking clue why this is happening and it's too late to fix

@FiredraPhoenixhawk

6 жыл бұрын

Todd in the Shadows The audio sounds so weird, It's like he's talking behind me. 😐

@masonlamb7007

6 жыл бұрын

Inverted polarity on the left and right channels. Just fix that spot of dodgy audio with a basic utility plugin and re-upload. Problem solved.

@emolovetree

6 жыл бұрын

if you're already in the Adobe suite open the audio in a multitrack session of audition split the stereo into two mono tracks and click the inverse polarity on one of the mono tracks

@thatonekidinschoolwhoeatsglue

6 жыл бұрын

Well shit it doesn't work no matter what I do

@waffleless

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Todd. I was quite a fan of yours back in the TGWTG days, and I just started watching your videos again. I think you have improved immensely while still keeping your soul. You are everything these Train Wreckords are not. Keep amazing us.

...is it me, or does America share exactly the same theme and problems as Madonna's American Life, WHICH WAS ALSO RELEASED IN 2003? Were Green Day the only established artists to get Bush criticism right?

@bjorksarmpits148

5 жыл бұрын

Most punk bands did an OK job at it, thought even the points Green Day made were a bit redundant considering bands like NOFX and Rise Against had already made those criticisms

@tyde4610

5 жыл бұрын

Mysterious Coconut The reason the american idiot album hit so hard was because green day WERE the only mainstream punk band that could muster the balls to criticize bush the way they did. NOFX and Rise Against weren’t exactly household names at the time.

@V-grandraccoon

5 жыл бұрын

Demon Days is pretty good Bush criticism.

@UBvtuber

5 жыл бұрын

After watching the new trainwreckords on that, I immediately noticed the similarities.

@floydlooney6837

5 жыл бұрын

Still better than being a Canadian Idiot, though. I mean eh....

I refuse to believe she knew what "pastiche" meant before she knew what "casualty" meant

@matteframe

3 жыл бұрын

I love when dopey people try to use big words. Pretty women are especially bad at that.

@avacatherine5646

3 жыл бұрын

It’s basically r/iamverysmart if it mutated and became a singer.

@Jaceblue04

2 жыл бұрын

Apparently she didn't know what "pastiche" meant, because the word she was looking for was obviously "parody."

@edwarddorey4480

Жыл бұрын

Ok, misogynist.

@2-d_in_a_bag

Жыл бұрын

​@@matteframe Ugh, the first half of the comment was so good, and then you lost it all… You became the Icarus of the comment section. How sad.

The fact that her defense of this album was essentially “I’m not selling out, I’m ironically selling out” is hilarious. Honestly would have been better if she just owned it.

@daelen.cclark

Жыл бұрын

At least some of them would've appreciated to the upfront-ness of it. They might not have liked it, but they wouldn't have their legs pissed and told it's raining (for lack of a better term).

@tafua_a

Жыл бұрын

The only character to ever "ironically" sell out successfully was Max Headroom

@ilyanagalen9320

11 ай бұрын

‘’Selling out’’ is such a toxic term, if there’s one thing I’m glad for in today’s musical era it’s that the concept of ‘’selling out’’ is so dead a lot of younger people would ask you what it means. Then they’d laugh at the idea that making some money from your music could somehow be a bad thing. ‘’Sellout’’ is what musical gatekeepers say, to try and keep their own ideas of genre and integrity alive. The best integrity an artist can have is to hold their course, regardless of the direction they do choose. So fucking what if Jewel wants to make an ironic pop song? It’s on you if you can’t get satire. She was going in a new direction and Intuition was most definitely a parody. It doesn’t get much more satirical than that video, and many people still didn’t get it. Even worse, today the same people would praise the same song/video for doing the same thing.

@brianalice

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, the video was obviously a parody when it came out. Of course, this wasn’t too long after Starship Troopers came out and most critics failed to get the satire there, too.

@emilyadams3228

8 ай бұрын

​@@ilyanagalen9320The term "selling out" came from boomers in the late 60's, like all bad things after 1966. They went to college and got infected with communism by the perfessers who were left over from the 30's, when communism was embraced by academics who blamed the Depression on capitalism. Whenever one of the San Francisco acid bands would break through and get big, the boomer hippies screeched "SELLOUT!!!!" cos a band could only be "cool" or "real" if they're obscure, or better yet, unknown. Becoming famous and having gold records was akin to capitalism, and being on the side of the Man. This went on for decades, and infected the next generation, the alternative and grunge fans. I remember when REM: Out Of Time exploded in 1991. REM had been well known on the "college circuit" for almost a decade, but when other people than art students discovered Out Of Time, suddenly REM were sellouts. They weren't cool any more. I even saw an article that said they had "betrayed us". The same idiots who called bands "sellouts" for actually doing well enough to stay in the business and keep making music, also lament the passing of great bands that didn't. And they still think it's better to no longer make great music, if it means you didn't "sell out". Because they're total dipshits.

Whenever I hear Intuition, I have a sudden urge to shave my legs...

"just so CASUALLY" vs. "such casualty"

@duffman18

4 жыл бұрын

Poets and songwriters have poetic license, they often use words in the "wrong" way because of double meanings and it just sounding nicer. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that she knows the normal meaning of casualty but she wanted to use it to mean being casual but also have that double meaning of someone getting hurt. Like they're hurting themselves and their lives with being so casual, so apathetic. So it's actually a really nice poetic line. Again anyone who can add 2 + 2 together knows she knows the meaning and she used it poetically instead. So the guy is a smart ass because he's just pointing out really minor things that are obvious to everybody and doesn't need to be said, to try and make himself looks smart but actually it's just obnoxious. It's just like the "well ackshually...." people. Just annoying. Seriously, I wonder what he'd think of a poet like Carol Ann Duffy the poet laureate of the UK. She's a fantastic poet and uses this kind of "wrong meaning" uses of words in everything she writes. It's a very cool technique because you instinctively know what these poets mean when they use the words "wrong" and it gives poems tons of layers. It's lovely. Shakespeare made his career of using words "wrong" for the sake of it sounding nice, and he ended up changing the regular everyday meaning of a lot of words in the English language (and invented plenty of words too) that are used every day in English speaking countries.

@MK-dh2mi

4 жыл бұрын

duffman18 look at all these paragraphs no one asked for

@matteframe

3 жыл бұрын

"It's a pastiche on music videos" Yeah, she was intentionally using the wrong meaning.

@Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat

3 жыл бұрын

@@duffman18 um didn't... didnt he say in the video that she didnt know was causality meant?

@duffman18

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat yeah and he was wrong

I gotta say, these videos all have a lot if rewatchability

@Aster_Risk

3 жыл бұрын

I rewatch Trainwreckords and One Hit Wonderland videos nearly every day. Todd is the best.

We went to see Jewel in concert, she told the audience off for talking and basically berated us all to shut up....she did it with such casualty...

Every time I hear "In America." I keep thinking of Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged's version of Bandit Keith.

@rabidfirefox8914

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry. I can't understand you. You aren't speaking American.

@brianchavez2829

3 жыл бұрын

Also, we have to wear the flag on our heads.

Intuition was the first song I'd ever heard from Jewel (I was 9 in 2003), and it really didn't seem out of the ordinary for someone named "Jewel" to have a song sound like that. When I heard "Who Will Save Your Soul" when I was a bit older, I couldn't even believe it was the same person. I thought Jewel was a one hit wonder/wannabe Britney for a long time.

@t.o.4251

5 жыл бұрын

The "folk singer who lived in her car" story hit me like a fucking brick because I also just knew her from Intuition.

@YelenaSkunky

26 күн бұрын

Same. Where I'm from, only "Intuition" got a TV/radio airplay (and when it came to radio, it usually was one of the remixes). Her previous work wasn't known at all. Still, we got a bunch of Western media referencing Jewel living in her van and playing guitar, and I was puzzled about that 😅

That polanski line slapped me in my damn face. WHAT WERE YOU DOING JEWEL. strange days.

@EpicB

4 жыл бұрын

Thankfully this album has been thoroughly erased from the cultural consciousness because she'd get crucified for a lyric like that now.

@garystack9537

4 жыл бұрын

I saw the music video for Intuition on MTV Classic other day lol. That’s what brought me back here. This album has not been erased

@ronniejdio9411

3 жыл бұрын

He makes good films. Hollywood forgave him. They wanna legalize his crimes now

@Gabe413

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronniejdio9411 'he makes good films' bitch where?

@ronniejdio9411

3 жыл бұрын

@@Gabe413 all of em

Some of us didn't know Jewel before 0304 so I never really knew she was selling out. I actually enjoyed a couple of singles from that album and remember the videos playing on MTV/VH1 in the morning before school. And let's not forget the Intuition razor commercial!

@liriodendronlasianthus

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

Waitwaitwait "like a modern interpretation of big band music"? WHAT. And if she actually _had_ done that, the record would've been better! Weird, perhaps, but more interesting.

@gxtmfa

5 жыл бұрын

Robin Chesterfield Yeah, that’d be New Jack Swing

@roarshach13

4 жыл бұрын

We already got that. Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.

@MedalionDS9

4 жыл бұрын

You have no idea what Big Band Music is if you think New Jack Swing is a progression of that music.

@willtheangrydudeist9120

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Setzer pulled it off...

Baffled she didn't ride the Britney-alternative momentum of Pink, Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch etc. and go down the route of "early 00s diva pop-rock". Not only would it have made sense narrative wise, I could have easily see her executing it successfully without alienating casual music listeners and critics alike.

@NJGuy1973

6 жыл бұрын

Too bad you didn't work in the music biz back then.

@timetochronicle

6 жыл бұрын

It just wasn't her. odd pointed it out - Jewel seemed way too uncomfortable with the route she was taking

@medes5597

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's actually what I expected her to do. I was shocked she went down the Britney/Christina/Teen Pop craze. Like, it never fit her and by this point, Britney was trying to be more adult and Christina had created Xtina, released Stripped and reinvented herself as more adult and edgy Dirrrty. in comparison, Jewel looked like a child playing dress up.

@dw89music73

5 жыл бұрын

That's what another female singer-songwriter from the 1990s, Liz Phair did with her eponymous fourth album which was released the exact same year as this album.

@evandemers3753

5 жыл бұрын

Casual music listeners ? You mean listeners who listen to music with a certain level of casualty ?

She must have been persuaded by her manager to change her style to compete with Britney Spears at the time.

@JP-ve7or

3 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought back then. I still remember interviews where she said she was just "embracing her sexuality now" or some shit but she looked so, so awkward doing it. Seriously though I guess I'd try to pass it off as irony too if I failed that hard.

@zombiedodge1426

Жыл бұрын

@@JP-ve7or You'd *think* a woman who looks like Jewel wearing these kinds of outfits would have some appeal. Instead I watch these videos and I wish I was there to run on stage with a towel or something.

"like a modern interpretation of big band music" That sounds more like that Christina Aguilera album from 2006 than this record.

@tylerhackner9731

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Back to Basics. I actually see a few comparisons with Christina and Jewel (Oversinging, trying too hard to be something you’re not, etc).

@duffman18

4 жыл бұрын

I always liked that Robbie Williams big band album he did. Is Robbie Williams known in the US? Because in the UK he's enormous. Perhaps the biggest solo artist ever (as opposed to bands). I'm pretty sure he's number 1 in albums sold from a solo artist or something like that, but it was always bizzare to me that he seems to have never cracked America.

@Betta66

4 жыл бұрын

@@tylerhackner9731 Back to Basics is a good album. Everything after that, though...

@prismaze

4 жыл бұрын

@@duffman18 Americans will never know how iconic he is. Kylie Minogue also.

@matthewmcree1992

3 жыл бұрын

@@prismaze amen to everything you said. Kylie only had one big hit album here (Fever in 2001 and 2002) thanks to the worldwide mega hit Can't Get You Outta My Head, then she went back to relative obscurity here in the US - except among gay guys like me, who all at least know who she is, even if they don't know what songs she is known for. Coincidentally, she released a new album titled "DISCO" literally today (and after listening to it, I can honestly say that it's awesome).

Keep making trainwrecords this is great

NEW SERIES HYPE! I am hyped for the next episode already. Let's see some trainwrecks! Let's watch some twisted metal burn....

@nathanshlap

6 жыл бұрын

Yay, now we have 3 amazing series to watch! (If you're not counting top tens)

@Thomasmemoryscentral

6 жыл бұрын

Do you think a bunch of Todd's fans remember seeing Marc Mues cover Intuition on his Worst Songs Of 2003 list? That's my first exposure to the song

@trappy6748

6 жыл бұрын

Isagail I hope he does Liz Phair next.

@crazyluigi6664

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he'd cover Limp Bizkit's Results May Vary at some point. I mean, that's kind of obvious at some point...

@TimmyTickle

6 жыл бұрын

Crazy Luigi If Todd does cover it, he should be careful that he doesn't make it too similar to the Regretting The Past that Rocked did on it

C'mon Todd, if Joni smashed out a disco album, you would eat it up. I would, too. Damn.

@cremetangerine82

3 жыл бұрын

Disco Joni would had been interesting, 0304 is just a dull sellout.

@BillPeschel

2 жыл бұрын

Well, that's because Joni had an observant eye and great rhymes.

@LadyTylerBioRodriguez

2 жыл бұрын

Both Sides Now with guest stars the Bee Gees? I'd try it.

@bobgreen1236

2 жыл бұрын

On her best day, Jewel was NEVER Joni......

@LadyTylerBioRodriguez

2 жыл бұрын

@@bobgreen1236 Very few ever have been.

thank u todd for explaining the backstories behind all the music i have to listen to constantly at my retail job

@hannahmellinger6789

2 жыл бұрын

As someone who works in retail, this hits so hard. Walmart or Target?

While Robin Thicke was never as prolific or capable as Jewel, the fact that his sophomore album bombed and sold only a few thousand copies is hilarious and satisfying and might make a good episode. Robin Thicke is a perfect example of someone’s copious amounts of douchiness killing their career.

@towlie710

6 жыл бұрын

Stefan Filipovits I heard he sold 38 in his opening week in the UK. No-one deserves it more

@CyberStockholmSyndrome

6 жыл бұрын

It wasn't his sophomore album. Robin Thicke has been around for years. It just so happens that Paula was his first album after a HUGELY successful one that got him a lot of attention.

@MrInvinciblewarrior

6 жыл бұрын

There is only one think robin thicke makes me feel sad for him and thats that his dad alan died

@petercahill6696

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's controversial to say Blurred Lines was going to be a one hit wonder to begin with, but at least Robin could still it keep as a decently successful singer. Instead, he made an entire breakup album telling his ex wife to come back. Like, asking her to forgive him so shortly after he hurt her is bad enough of an idea(seriously, I know from experience), but he just had to put it out in public.

@culwin

6 жыл бұрын

Robin Thicke is a one-hit wonder. Lots of one-hit wonders had flop albums after their only hit.

Todd makes new show about career ruiningly bad albums and first episode is Jewel. I eagerly await Jewel having the number one album in the country next week.

"She doesn't drink anything harder than cappuccinos!" Well, I guess that resolves the question of whether she's Mormon or not lol

@EmeraldLavigne

3 жыл бұрын

Mormons don't drink coffee either, tho...

@MetalSandman999

3 жыл бұрын

@@EmeraldLavigne Exactly; that's how we know she's not Mormon lol

"We live in a society" Alaska girl

How sad. Lots of folks, myself included, really enjoyed her folk stuff and still feel nostalgic for it, like remembering those rainy days at the bus stop and going into one of the little coffee shops before they were killed by Starbucks. Those little melancholy comforts that died out years ago. That's the Jewel I remember.

@ApacheDawn2020

3 жыл бұрын

Was scrolling for a comment like this. Todd says she never really had a huge following, but she straight up owned the cafe' scene here in the PNW in the 90's, and basically kept quite the following amongst her fellow buskers and the like (mostly riot grrls.) But I will add, even though they still listen to her, it's always been her initial output they like and listen to, which isn't anything post-1996.

@TheMightyPika

3 жыл бұрын

@@ApacheDawn2020 : )

@TwoMarshmallows1

2 жыл бұрын

'Near You Always' and 'Morning Song' still make me as happy as the day I first heard them.

@KahlessTheUnforgettable

Жыл бұрын

The best part of waking up is oh who gives a fuck 🎶

@TheHSIHP

Жыл бұрын

What a sad comment but I hear you

We need an episode on "The Funky Headhunter" by MC Hammer. Also known as "The Time MC Hammer Went Gangsta."

@ThierryRocksTV

6 жыл бұрын

He did it :D

@Flowtail

5 жыл бұрын

For anybody too lazy to search for it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/inZlyamOe66dmso.html

@DoveAlexa

5 жыл бұрын

How do you feel now that TITS listened to you? Sempai noticed you!

@ProgrammedForDamage

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThierryRocksTV And it's glorious!

@IABITVpresents

4 жыл бұрын

Original comment written 2 years ago the video came out a 'year' ago 2 follow up comments written 10 months ago

Charlie Sheen has never been in a romantic movie? What about *Food Fight?*

@matan6737

3 жыл бұрын

or his appearance in ferris buellers day off, i count that, as a sheen enthusiast we take what we can get these days

@ronniejdio9411

3 жыл бұрын

Platoon

Maybe it wasn’t a good album but that “Intuition” song still gets played CONSTANTLY on pop radio (at least pop for middle aged people radio)

Maybe Taylor Swift got her idea of "I've written a song based on a the fictional character the media made up as a joke," from Jewel.

@Nakia11798

6 жыл бұрын

Krystal Rossi and also her idea of switching genres out of nowhere

@EpicB

6 жыл бұрын

Though it seems Taylor Swift made a smoother (at least in terms of keeping her career intact) genre transition than Jewel.

@FaeQueenCory

6 жыл бұрын

Really the comparison that is more apt than that new garbage is Blank Space. The song where TaeTae claimed that all the legit insanity she makes was all just a joke and just a parody on what OTHER people say about her... She’ll probably sue me now for this comment.

@EpicB

6 жыл бұрын

Though I find Blank Space a little more believable than when Jewel tried it.

@Demiglitch

6 жыл бұрын

She didn't switch genres, she just switched the attitude she presented her music with. Instead of self-loathing and acting like a martyr she's now aggressive and aloof. The actual music is really just an evolution from the last album. Her folk/country to Pop change was relatively natural compared to Jewel since her country songs were very poppy and she appealed to teenagers. Jewel went from writing songs directed at the more adult alternative folk audience to straight pop music. The difference between the two is Taylor Swift believes what she is saying. Jewel didn't actually believe that she was making an awesome satire of American culture and she was scared shitless about losing her indie cred. Taylor Swift evolved naturally away from a genre that didn't have much credibility in the first place and has so much money and influence that she can afford to make a new sound album without losing profitability.

Todd: “About that whole Cole Porter comparison, there’s one additional connection that she made.” Me: “She lost her leg in a riding accident?”

@thema1998

6 жыл бұрын

Jack Casey Cole Porter lost a leg?

@casketbase7750

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Del Pilar + Yeah. The horse he was on fell over and crushed his leg’s bone into powder. He had to get it amputated, but he said that aside from making it harder to push piano pedals, his lifestyle as a Broadway writer and director didn’t change much.

@gabe_s_videos

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't that kind of sad that a guy who had a major, life-affecting injury was able to keep having a hugely successful career while the person who just released one crappy song had their career KO'd?

@casketbase7750

6 жыл бұрын

Well Robogabriel, in all fairness Cole Porter had DECADES of mainstream success and goodwill built up before the accident. Check out his bio-flick “Delovely” If you’re interested.

@gabe_s_videos

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, didn't consider that lol. *Andhewasmoretalented*

I totally forgot about “Intuition”. I had no idea it was by Jewel. 9-year-old me is shook from across the decades.

me at 12 when I didn't know I was a lesbian yet: Oh my god, I love this video, everyone is so wrong about it! The lyrics are so deep and meaningful, I'm gonna watch this video every single day on mtv2

@Tirgo69

2 жыл бұрын

based

@liriodendronlasianthus

2 жыл бұрын

As a bisexual, saaaame

@iwakeupandboomimarat

2 жыл бұрын

this resonates too hard man

@eyeheartsushi2212

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

let it be known that it is officially acceptable to wear a full face of makeup in the shower while seductively looking out the glass at seemingly no one instead of actually washing yourself.

@x_VineM_x

4 жыл бұрын

...wait...I'm NOT supposed to do that?!?

@shawnfields2369

3 жыл бұрын

@@x_VineM_x Yeah, why? Did you accidentally put makeup on and jump in the shower, and NOT wash yourself, but instead start singing and dancing? Odd, but people do that in the shower, right? If those movies and music videos I've seen are any indication, I mean.

@daelen.cclark

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnfields2369 Why would they lie to us?

@shawnfields2369

Жыл бұрын

@@daelen.cclark About singing and dancing in the shower while putting on makeup, and not actually washing yourself? Honestly, sir/madam; I have no idea, I was just trying to be funny. I don't know if it's actually okay to put on a full face of makeup in the shower, because I don't wear makeup; in the shower; I actually wash in the shower; you know, like your supposed to when you go into the shower in the first place?

@daelen.cclark

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@shawnfields2369 I was just joking. “Yes-and-ing”, as they call it.

I was surprised how many of these I recognised. Looks like both incarnations of Jewel were at least relatively big here in Australia because I've definitely heard these songs countless times.

11:47 lets all appreciate the guitarist, playing pop music, whilst wearing an Iron Maiden shirt, Legend

@EclecticoIconoclasta

4 жыл бұрын

I am mostly into indie and other eclectic underground stuff and don´t care about metal but it seems to me that wearing an Iron Maiden Tshirt by now should be seen as uncool as wearing a Ramones one. I tend to respect metalheads that wear tshirts from bands I have never heard about or even understand what the hell it says there

@AngelMartinez-rx8yt

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta pay the bills somehow!

@Aster_Risk

3 жыл бұрын

@@EclecticoIconoclasta I tend to respect metalheads who genuinely like what they like and don't care if it's uncool.

@ronniejdio9411

3 жыл бұрын

@@EclecticoIconoclasta it will never be uncool to wear a shirt if you like a band.

@ArchangelSteve

Жыл бұрын

@@EclecticoIconoclasta Difference is that Maiden are still around and still putting out records and touring.

It's hard to believe Jewel's career survived pronouncing "TV" *Taaaay-Vee* (3:45) on her first single, let alone everything that happened later.

@witherblaze

3 жыл бұрын

Must be an Alaskan accent

Not since Cinemadonna have I been this excited!

Am I the only one who thinks Todd should do another random year’s Top 10?

@sudevsen

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Griffin Top 10 hit songs from 1752

@itsbosh3345

6 жыл бұрын

He said he would once he hit $1000 a video on Patreon...... that happened MONTHS ago! He's long overdue for one lmao, I hope he does another year of the 2000s.

@AgnessaMo

6 жыл бұрын

No, he's not. The worst of 1991 was the list he made when he hit 1000$ (and he claimed he would likely never do another one again, since it's a lot of work and research just for one video).

@codeblack9407

6 жыл бұрын

Sudev Sen i love todd

@robinchesterfield42

6 жыл бұрын

+Agnieszka M WHAT?! Oh, no! I had no idea he'd said that. I thought it was just a coincidence he hadn't done another Top 10 year or that he hadn't gotten to it yet, not that he actually _said_ he wouldn't do another one! :( Those were my favourites and I was badly waiting for him to do an older year!

I realize this video is old, but ... Not to white knight Jewel, or anything. I just kinda recall during that time musicians, especially female types, being pressured into corporate idealistic branding and such. Courtney Love for example had a look and sound that was grunge and around the same time started wearing designer dresses and "cleaned up". I don't know exactly what was going on over all, but it wasn't just Jewel per se. I agree the song Intuition wasn't deep, but I always kinda took it as her jabbing back at "them" (whoever ever "them" was) for telling her to loose weight, dress prettier, sing like this, etc. I could be wrong though.

@nomobobby

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe that's what she trying to do but the lyrics and singing make it hard to buy. the lyrics need to find a point and stick to it to have any kind of edge. And personally the singing just 'bleh' I could see artists trying to make a song like this now, maybe in the mold Beyonce or something. But she just can't bring the indigents together to make it work.

@magiradyne

3 жыл бұрын

hi this is late but I think you're right. It seems pretty clear to me that she was making fun of the whole situation - especially looking at the video, where people kinda slow-freeze into twee little advertisement moments. but even in the lyrics she's contrasting this sexy image with "look inside yourself to find the truth, or literally tear your skin off and sell it". It ain't deep, but it's pretty clear if you listen or look. ... But then the song WAS used for an advertisement later on so like... idk how much she really believed that when the money was waved in her face.

@thatlemonadeguy6742

2 жыл бұрын

Even if that's the case, Hole (Love's band) made great songs, and idk, I think I'm a sucker for riot grrrls but her contrast between a "polished" look and her grunge music makes an interest aesthetic. This album just sucks so it's bad even if it's for criticism.

@scottwickham2613

2 жыл бұрын

I think the video is a bit cynical about Jewel, I don’t think she is any shallower or deeper than who she is compared to. I knew this album was parody right away.

I still think of this as Todd's "new" series even though he's been doing it for six years 😅

@pinkrose8272

Жыл бұрын

it is still his newest. So in a way that is a correct statement.

“She went from folk singing to pop dancer artist” So basically Jewel is a failed Taylor Swift?

@Nakia11798

6 жыл бұрын

sd316 Gaming Yes, but somehow stupider. How does a grown woman confuse casualness with casualty.

@EpicB

6 жыл бұрын

Nakia11798 I don't know, but Jewel's career was a definite casualty in that mixup.

@Lightspeeds

6 жыл бұрын

Good to know I wasn't the only person who thought of this.

@collegerebel

6 жыл бұрын

Nakia11798 I'm guessing she didn't have a dictionary handy. Also, it was the 90's, and the internet was still in its infancy.

@dw89music73

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nakia11798 Pretty much because of the word casual being used in casualty.

I really enjoyed this series idea! It's more music history from a different and fun angle, if you think about it (that's one of the reasons I enjoy OHW)

I recently saw Jewel in concert. She was opening for Meaghan Trainor, who is young enough to be her daughter. She went back to her folk roots, singing her classics and she sounded great. She was also a bit of a mess, singing about half a song at a time, then just going off on a tangent with a story. The highlight, surprisingly, was actually her yoddeling. Did you know she is an acomplished yoddler? Neither did I?

One of the most fascinating observations that I read about Jewel's career is her "Intuition" song and Rob Thomas’ "Lonely No More" sound like they were written by Dianne Warren and Desmond Child trying to be hip and compete with Timbaland.

Christina Aguilera Bionic... just gonna leave that there for ya

@shaunandthebugs

4 жыл бұрын

It's her best album and I stand by that

@tylerhackner9731

4 жыл бұрын

This needs to happen for the series

@tylerhackner9731

4 жыл бұрын

Either Bionic or Lotus

Until now, I actually thought "Intuition" was a Shakira song.

@SomeRPGFan

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Imprixis I thought it was by Shania Twain. Not sure why...

@MikeImprixis

6 жыл бұрын

RPGFan either way, neither one of us guessed it was Jewel.

@CukiKuin

6 жыл бұрын

Me too, I just remembered the video of Jewel's song because of the fake ads

@TimmyTickle

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Imprixis Are you sure you weren't thinking of Objection? (which Shakira released around the same time)

@SomeRPGFan

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Imprixis That explains why the song killed her career though..it is just so unfitting for her that people have a hard time realizing she sung it.

If she'd just said "selling thoughtlessness so casually", it would've worked 🤷🏿‍♀️

@tafua_a

3 ай бұрын

If it was anyone else, there would be a lot of critics saying "with casualty the artist means to express how the casual nature of the action is causing irreperable damage to society", but since it's Jewel, they mostly go "she used the wrong word again"

2003 was the same year Liz Phair also went pop, with some success.

@propername4830

3 жыл бұрын

Nostradamus

@ninjabluefyre3815

3 жыл бұрын

And then...2010 happened.

Probably going to have to cover The Black Eyed Peas's "The Beginning" then.

@RyanStorey1231

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! It's so strange how quickly the Black Eyed Peas backlash happened. They went from being the biggest act of 2009, to releasing basically the exact same album a year later and it killed their career. And they haven't done anything else since. Although, I'm hearing good things about Fergie's new album.

@rubberwoody

6 жыл бұрын

musically the two albums were very different

@petercahill6696

6 жыл бұрын

RyanX1231 They kind of got back together once with a pretty solid omage to early hip hop, and even then Fergie wasn't there and the song just kind of went under the radar.

"we love spam in america" is my new favorite lyric

I simply cannot believe Todd started doing Trainwreckords 5 years ago

@michaeldy3157

10 ай бұрын

middle age is good time to reflect

@kaitlin9288

6 ай бұрын

I love rewatching this years later because of the opening line: "Hey everyone, bear with me, we're gonna try something a little different here" Who could've ever guessed at the time this would become Todd's landmark series? In all honesty I hope he never stops doing this haha

Jewel was also the female lead in a late 90s Ang Lee Civil War movie called RIDE WITH THE DEVIL. It's actually quite good and underrated movie and her performance is pretty good, but her presence is very very random.

@reflectsonlife

8 ай бұрын

The singer-to-actress career pipeline was still a thing in the '90s but kind of died off since then.

It's funny but at the time Intuition came out I just mentally filtered it out as being from a completely different artist also going by the name Jewel. It just sounds so little like her previous stuff.

As soon as the Cole Porter thing came up I had to pause the video to say YOU FUCKING WHAT?

My poetry professor back in 2002 used Jewel's poems as an example of bad poetry. I'd have to read more of her work to see if that burn was warranted, but I never much cared for her music anyway.

"I'm also a genie in a bottle."🤣🤣🤣I remember how bizarre it was when Intuition came out.

I like the new series. I remember jewel but was not a huge fan. Hope to more of this in the future

My ex used to play intuition in the car and make me listen to it. In 2015.

5 жыл бұрын

Janine Woolery I can understand why he's your ex now.

Please do Chris Gaines! Aka Garth Brooks with a wig, eyeliner and a soul patch. This was such a train wreck that he has had all trace of it cleansed from the Internet.

@debbiesuesteele9639

4 жыл бұрын

YES!!!! But I bet he won't be able to because Garth doesn't let his stuff be played on You Tube. Because he is short of funds, NOT. If the Chris Gaines fiasco wasn't perfect for Todd to review, I don't know what is.

@RBS_

4 жыл бұрын

.....ooooh, I KNEW someone would mention the "Chris Gaines" situation, THNX!

@LadyTylerBioRodriguez

4 жыл бұрын

I like to think the Ken Burns documentary on Country Music stopped in 1996 just to avoid that story. That and Country more or less died with Johnny Cash and hasn't come back since. Bro County was just pissing on a grave.

@timmy841212

3 жыл бұрын

That was one of the most embarrassing blunders of a megastar I ever witnessed. That said, I love that Lost in You song.

@MrByebyelove

2 жыл бұрын

Yes especially bc i had trouble even tracking down that album for streaming (!?) Did Goth Brooks whitewash it off the internet?😭 I just want to hear how bad... I mean,,, I just want to listen to it with unprejudiced ears

That "America" song sounds like it should play over the opening titles of a mid-2000s Disney Channel movie.

Hey, I remember that song “Intuition”! From my old Kidz Bop album.

5:47 It was the...umm...ten days before Halloween, and Todd was making some sounds, about a forgotten singer name Jewel and how her tunes are no longer around.

I’m genuinely surprised they didn’t call her Jewel 2.0 I think that’s fair given the nature of the early 00s.

The lyrics are: “It’s easy to find. Just follow your heart, baby!”