{"id":6861,"date":"2003-06-02T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/02\/6861\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T22:02:49","slug":"6861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/02\/6861\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow Bejeweled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001237HCI\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001237HCI&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=43d414adb384aa36ac9c7df0ca21ac16\" target=\"new\"><i>0304<\/i><\/a>, from Jewel comes out tomorrow, June 3, 2003.  I have a wallet with $16 in it all ready.<\/p>\n<p>The first single, &#8220;Intuition&#8221;, sports a more techno sound than her previous works, but it&#8217;s still her sweet, breathy vocals.  Innocent, playful, and yet suh-exy.<\/p>\n<p>I have been a fan since <i>Pieces Of You<\/i>, which I gained after leading a friend on a trip to numerous record stores to find it on a winter evening.  Finally, we found it, and we listened to it several times consecutively.  I ordained myself Paladin of Jewel and have had to defend her honor, or at least her vocal talent, on many occasions.  Of course, since she&#8217;s no Sarah Brightman (or Sarah McLachlan, for that matter), so it&#8217;s been easier to resort to righteous violence than to offer evidence to her vocal prowess, so I have had to smite many a man, woman, and schoolchild to preserve her rightful head of the pantheon of pop.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s CNN&#8217;s take on her album:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/02\/music.jewel.reut\/index.html\" target=\"new\">&#8220;Jewel: Sexy dance diva?&#8221;<\/a>  I hope I can sleep tonight, and that the anticipation will not keep me tossing, turning, and upsetting nestling cats.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you wondering, Jewel&#8217;s official score is MOT-MCBDFHM (Much of That, Minus a Couple Bags of Doritos For Her Munchies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new album, 0304, from Jewel comes out tomorrow, June 3, 2003. I have a wallet with $16 in it all ready. The first single, &#8220;Intuition&#8221;, sports a more techno sound than her previous works, but it&#8217;s still her sweet, breathy vocals. Innocent, playful, and yet suh-exy. I have been a fan since Pieces Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21215,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/21215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}