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Track Listings
| 1. Deep Water |
| 2. What's Simple is True |
| 3. Hands |
| 4. Kiss the Flame |
| 5. Down So Long |
| 6. Innocence Maintained |
| 7. Jupiter |
| 8. Fat Boy |
| 9. Enter from the East |
| 10. Barcelona |
| 11. Life Uncommon |
| 12. Do You |
| 13. Absence of Fear |
| 14. This Little Bird - (additional track) |
Product Description
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1995年に発表したデビューアルバム『心のかけら(原題『Pieces of You』)』で音楽界に火をつけたジュエル。そろそろ当時の無邪気な少女のイメージを塗り替えるときがきたようだ。ジュエルの初期の歌は、デビューの数年前に書かれたものや、中には彼女がサンディエゴのビーチに止めたバンの中で暮らしていた自由な放浪時代のものまである。25歳の現在、音楽賞の番組でスケスケのドレスを着たりたり、酷評された(がベストセラーになった)詩集を通してあけっぴろげになりすぎた彼女は、いまや自己表現と自己露出の教祖的存在になってしまった。『Spirit』は、詩集ではまったくさえないジュエルの善意的で時には流れるような歌詞が、何故彼女のファンに共感を与えるのかを明示している。「Deep Water」「Hands」「Down So Long」のような歌では、きらめくメロディーと空を翔るような彼女の歌声が、歌詞を持ち上げている。これには超ひねくれた批評家でさえ、女学生がノートに書き付けたような「あなたの心は地面にはりついたグレープ味のガム」という歌詞や「もしも世界にたったひとつだけ言いたいことがあるとしたら、わたしたちはみんな大丈夫よって言いたいの」なんていう心もとない決まり文句を受け入れてしまうのだろう。『心のかけら』で「あなたの魂は誰が救ってくれるの?」と疑問を投げかけたジュエル。どうやらこの『Spirit』では、その役を自ら買って出たがっているようだ。深く考え込まなければ、このアルバムは傷ついた心の慰め、私たちの内なる幼な子を育てる手引書になるのかもしれない。「大丈夫よ」っていう彼女の言葉は本当かも。それは誰にもわからない。
From Amazon.co.uk
It's time for an update of our image of Jewel, the ingenue who set the music world on fire with her 1995 debut album, Pieces of You. After all, that effort consisted primarily of songs Jewel had written several years before, some of them dating back to her days as a free- spirited waif living in a van on the beach in San Diego. Now, at 25, she's become a sort of guru for self-expression and full disclosure, revealing perhaps too much of herself in see-through dresses worn to awards shows and a critically drubbed (yet bestselling) book of poetry. Spirit makes plain why Jewel's well-intentioned yet sometimes facile lyrics strike a chord with her audience while her poetry lies flat on the page. On songs like "Deep Water", "Hands", and "Down So Long", her words are borne aloft by sparkling melodies and her soaring voice, making even the most cynical observer take a schoolgirl-notebook image such as "your heart like grape gum on the ground" or an unreassuring platitude like "If I could tell the world just one thing / It would be that we're all OK" somewhat in stride. On Pieces of You, Jewel posed the musical question "Who will save your soul?" On Spirit, it sounds like she wants to do it herself. And the truth is, if you don't overanalyse it, the album does act as a sort of balm for wounded psyches or maybe a primer for raising your own inner child. Maybe she's right and we are all OK. Who knew? --Daniel Durchholz
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