Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul (REACTION) WRITER REACTS - First Time Hearing It

[@davidjrandall1979]

Jewel's debut album "Pieces of You" came out in 1995, and it is absolutely stunning.

[@JosmenJacks]

I love Jewel. You should check out "You Were Meant For Me", "Standing Still", and "Hands".

[@jjfurbable]

Jewel was very young when she wrote this and she has a very stylized way of singing (especially in this performance) but she’s amazing. You should check out “foolish games” and “you were meant for me”

[@Donna185]

Foolish Games is a beautiful song by Jewel.

[@Rhiannon011]

Yes Foolish games and the beautiful video to it is just so BEAUTIFUL! Jewel's voice is "a Jewel"!!

[@Desertflower725]

In 1996 at age 24 I left a bad marriage with a newborn, a toddler, and no job. It was the scariest thing I ever did. Jewel (and Alanis) helped me be brave. I just love her!

[@TeresaMosby-sm4js]

Foolish Games still brings watery eyes for me. Her voice is so expressive. Thanks for this reaction, Saeed.

[@Rhiannon011]

This song resonates with Jewel, she speaks from "experience", as she started out her "career" homeless (living in her van) and sang at nightclubs and bars to "pay her bills' and she hung around with the hookers she met and talked with on the streets and nightclubs. It was Neil Young that gave Jewel "that huge break" and "offered" Jewel his big music studio so she could 'record her first album "Pieces of you"..

[@johnfujishiro]

I still can’t believe she doesn’t get more credit or fame for her spectacular singing abilities. She’s phenomenal

[@folkmusic99]

"In the end, only kindness matters." --Jewel

[@timithius]

Jewel's 1995 debut "Pieces of You" is one for your collection.

[@canadian1677]

Jewel was 19 and living in her Car before she made it Big! A Great Singer for sure. Check out YOU WERE MEAN'T FOR ME. One of her Best

[@KarlaElaine100]

Jewel is special! She has got a lot of soul! Her life story is fascinating.

[@victorjohnson7512]

Jewel was living in a VW bus on the beach in San Diego and singing in coffee shops for coins when she got her first record deal.

[@aljamin45]

This performance of this songs needs more love. It is immense.

[@deborahvernarelli6394]

This is the song that put her in the limelight, and she's still going strong. She was one of the judges on the acapella talent show called The SingOff, when Home Free won. It's also where Pentatonix got their start and won the year prior to Home Free. Jewel is a ( pardon the pun) jewel. Great reaction, my friend😊

[@dougca7086]

Jewel was homeless in San Diego California during her early years boy what a difference later on

[@mstewart109]

Yes, she lived in her van...

[@elliedogify]

you need to see her perform this at Woodstock (1999) featuring her incredible talent and range; scat, yodeling, incredible call and response with electric guitar player. It is remarkable to watch.

[@Marnie-hates-winter]

I would love to have him react to that in future. I'm the one who requested this one. I thought about requesting the Woodstock version, but then I was thinking that a lot of times, in the live version, if they really stylize it, it will be appreciated most by people who already know the song. If you've never heard a song before, a super-stylized live version of it won't be the best thing to listen to first. That's something to listen to after you already love the song. Maybe I'll request the Woodstock version at some point in the future. I agree, it's really great.

[@elisabethpedersen7893]

I used to watch her family's tv show Alaska the last frontier for many years. She has a song about her father and grandparents etc and the life they build in Alaska after they came there from Switzerland many years ago. The song is called Fathers daughter, she actually sings it with Dolly Parton the one and only.

[@stevenewcomer8837]

“Foolish Games” is a masterpiece!

[@JessMessica]

Omg I couldn't click on this fast enough! Massive Jewel fan since the beginning. I used to have this on cassette. One of my first cassettes.

[@ThingsAroundDC]

Painters by Jewel would be a great song to react to. It’s an entire journey of a story. It feels like true audio art.

[@JessMessica]

I love this song!!

[@Marnie-hates-winter]

I don't get choked up too easily, but that one gets me every time.

[@robinhood2524]

Jewel is amazing, I was lucky enough to be in charge of her security for 4 shows, she was very kind and gracious to everyone, she sang a song she just finished at the time. I believe I was the first person to hear song Hands..

[@bazkeen]

Such a great talent. A lot of great Jewel songs. A great voice 👌🏻👌🏻 The look on your face when she was hitting some of those notes 😅😅 I was waiting for it 😂 I get where you are coming from with the raising money for needy projects

[@KevinRCarr]

Incredible, isn't she? In the 90s she was among the handful of women that made pop music relevant for me again, after I'd put it behind me in disgust in the late 80s. She wrote beautiful and impactful songs, and what an incredible performer she was!

[@achebwahs1111]

I was 18 when this come out. I had the biggest crush

[@leeannies-tears369]

Oh man she's the best! I think she was 15 when she wrote this song. She grew up about 20 mins away from my best friend's house. Thanks❤

[@jlyc1985]

Here are more songs from Jewel: - Hands - Pieces Of You - You Were Meant For Me - Goodbye Alice in Wonderland - Stephenville, TX - Foolish Games - Standing Still - Intuition Enjoy!

[@jerryadams6799]

you should see her performance of this at Woodstock. she elaborated and extended it with scat, call and response with the guitars and the audience.

[@rahilario]

Yeah that one's still one of the best performances ever. She flubbed so many times in the Woodstock set, but it was all so rocknroll that you couldn't ever care

[@carlahelin5203]

Wow! Love this performance! I was lucky to see her live in Seattle many years ago. So humble. Interacted a lot with the audience. The song that absolutely breaks me every time is Foolish Games.

[@jwayne7400]

Jewel ❤❤ a great catalog that you will love exploring. Along with a great voice, she's a fabulous writer, a poet. I love "Standing Still"

[@scottNNJ]

Jewel was flat broke and living out of the trunk of her car when she recorded this album. The song saved her, financially, but she always remained humble - her soul is doing just fine, in my opinion.

[@GrandmasGonnaFlip]

Jewel is an amazing singer and human being.

[@laurakali6522]

Her debut album was awesome. I was working for a theatre when it came out. She sold out the place in a day. Circa summer 1996 or so. She decided to have her father open the show with yodeling. The fans were not happy. She actually came out and yelled at the crowd.

[@HisDearMissK]

she hit the music scene with a bullet and went straight to the top A phenom, a little poor girl from Alaska who made it big

[@lotusladylotus6159]

She has been one of my all-time favourites since her debut 😊. So many of her songs (lyrics and emotive voicing) have left me emotional, even in tears. That entire album was amazing. Others have suggested you check out 'Foolish Games,' 'You Were Meant For Me', 'Standing Still', and 'Hands': I'd also like to add 'Morning Song' because not only is it beautiful but I know that you will get the references; as well as "Near You Always," and finally "Don't"... the emotion is palpable, the impact visceral.

[@MusicLover-dt7ic]

I love Jewel, she has angelic vocals..I lived in Alaska from 82-85, my best friend there was her first cousin. She was way younger than us though. But in 85 I went to Homer to see Al, all the photos I took that weekend were the same views as the Kilcher family's land, so I think that is where Al took us to. I know my ex got to meet them, but she was really young. Wait til you hear her yodel. Love her music. Thanks. Took Al to his first concert lol seen Nazareth. He raced 3-wheelers and we spent alot of time together at the motocross track. Sure miss those days.

[@HisDearMissK]

@MusicLover-dt7ic you saw Nazareth as your first concert!!! Lucky *-%+*- God we loved Nazareth!We wore holes in that Hair of the Dog album!! 🎶🎵Love Hurts🎶🎵 They didn't ever come to little 'ol bum *+%# South Dakota...But Heart did...my first concert & Ki⚡⚡ (Kiss) did, my second concert!! Left SD, moved to Denver 1976 mucho better concerts there❤

[@MusicLover-dt7ic]

@@HisDearMissK No, my first concert was ACDC, Nazareth was my 2nd...I took Jewel's cousin, who was my best friend at the time, it was his first concert.

[@HisDearMissK]

@@MusicLover-dt7ic oh sorry I got your story mixed up...anyway I've been listening to Nazareth all afternoon. That song "Please Don't Judas Me".....Good God do I need to send that song to so many people in my life who have done me so dirty...not friends, just losers who roll in & out of my life these last 10 years 😕

[@MusicLover-dt7ic]

@@HisDearMissK My go to song is Revenge Is Sweet and Expect No Mercy lol...Love that album. I have many days where I jam to them all day long.

[@Roy-mw5js]

Jewel ❤

[@folkmusic99]

I love it that Saeed did reactions to Jewel and Diamond on the same day. Glittering!

[@folkmusic99]

Thank you for taking a stand on the Notre Dame project. You're a good person, Saeed.

[@leegriffin2582]

aww thx saeed- for loving great music- thats our jewel ! glad u found her - much love to u and urs

[@donald1379]

Still have her "Pieces Of You" album she is amazing.Thanks Saaed appreciate you❤

[@megdelaney3677]

💙LOVE Jewel!!!

[@believer773]

Jewel is literally, objectively and definitely one the best singer/songwriters of the past 30 years And Alanis duh

[@caradonnelly9009]

'Hands' is a great song of hers.

[@timithius]

Wow! I love that you're playing this. I love Jewel. Especially this song.

[@delorangeade]

As far as I remember she learned four chords on guitar and wrote this song. She hit big with her debut album but it didn't really seem to happen after that. I always think of Tori Amos as well, because they have the same flexibility with their vocals where you feel they could take the performance in any direction they wanted from one moment to the next. Somebody else recommended her Woodstock performance of this song. I will echo that.

[@davidmaholchic6146]

Interesting pic here great Song love Jewel love you

[@thinkoutsidethebox8456]

I love her "Spirit" album the most

[@GinnyRobertsonLLC]

Wow. I love this song but first time seeing this live version. Incredible. Thank you.

[@SaeedReacts.]

Amazing song! Thanks for watching.

[@christineanyalai5008]

For Jewel's you want Foolish Games

[@cshubs]

I saw her open for The Indigo Girls. Check out a video Jewel did at a karaoke bar where they put her in disguise and had her sing. It's hilarious.

[@davidjrandall1979]

The only time people love a Karen

[@beadybaby]

She is fantastic. Same age as me, so I could really relate. ❤ I’ve been a fan since her first album. She also yodels. ❤ And scats.

[@BonniBarlow-fn6oj]

One of my favorites of Jewel's is called Life Uncommon -- a call to get involved and emulate our heroes and only lend our strength to the sounds of freedom. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIaon6ueqd-Am9Efeature=shared

[@JessMessica]

Sometimes It Be That Way is probably my favorite song of hers. The album version is live. I couldn't find a good video, but I do recommend listening and reacting to that one.

[@Marnie-hates-winter]

Thanks, Saeed! Very nice, thoughtful and thought-provoking reaction. I'm really glad you liked this!

[@ashleygray4769]

I had this song and Natalie Merchants Carnival song on repeat back in the day

[@kd8199]

Saaed- the irony about the lyrics mentioning reality TV is that her family was at the time on reality TV….Alaska the Last Frontier…..the Kilchner family.

[@Donna185]

It was much later that her family was on discovery channel, 2011-2022.

[@kd8199]

@ - it’s still ironic. But you make a valid point.

[@TrishF_2024]

Never too late to develop a moral conscience.

[@aafsterlife9647]

Foolish Games, and You Were Meant for Me!

[@debbiegarrison1944]

She can yodel !! I have heard her in maybe one of her songs or just part of her performance

[@candicelitrenta8890]

One of my FAVORITE songs of hers is The New Wild West off of the Standing Still LP. You really need to jump down the rabbit hole on this artist

[@SaeedReacts.]

Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely want to hear more. First song for me, but enjoyed it a lot. Impressive!

[@NBKenC]

Glad she's being reacted to by you. I don't think I've seen anyone else react to her, which is a shame because she is so talented. I loved her right from the first time I heard her, but after a few albums, I lost interest. Maybe this will spark me to reexamine her catalogue.

[@vladmoriendi]

Another great female artist from the 90's was Tori Amos. Check out her live version of "Winter". A song for her dad.

[@aafsterlife9647]

Would also love to see you react to Sara Bareilles. Such a powerful singer... oof! Check out She Used to be Mine, and her cover of Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road (the live performance in Atlanta... gives me chills every time).

[@TrishF_2024]

Sara is superb!

[@stevenparker4684]

Ironically Jewels family did an Alaskan reality show

[@as7326]

🔥🔥🔥💜💜💜

[@davidwhitley1545]

Love this song, but another artist in the same vein is Kathleen Edwards, "Goodnight, California"

[@Bekka_Noyb]

shoulda done the studio version tho

[@theadviser123]

The audio is much better. I can't even understand half of what she's singing in this song. Please listen to that one.

[@carlahelin5203]

I love how she changes her styles on her songs each time she performs them. Love the studio version as well but seeing her perform live is mind blowing and it’s obvious this made a huge impression on Saeed. ❤

[@bobdelp2023]

OKAY, THE ALBUM WAS ( PIECES OF YOU ) AND THE SONG IS : FOOLISH GAMES😊, SEE HOW IN TUNE I AM WITH THE FRIGGIN 90'S ARTISTS SAEED! 😮☹KINDA SAD HOW MOST MUSIC STUFF CHANGED FOR THE WORSE! 💯

[@rmacdougallaliasdogviticus]

'You Were Meant For Me' and 'Foolish Games' are both good Jewel songs. Check them out. I see you have never heard 'Chilliwack', great Canadian band.. 'Lonesome Mary', 'Arms of Mary', ''Fly at Night', 'Baby Blue' and 'Something Better' are just a few of their hits. Cheers.

[@bobdelp2023]

LOL!!! 😊HER OTHERRRR HUGE HIT FROM THAT EPIC ALBUM ( FOOLISH GAMES ) SAEED : YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME 💯👍YOU TALK ABOUT A HUGE SUCCESS STORY SAEED, WELL THAT WAS JEWEL, JUST AS GOOD AS A ( JIM CARREY ) STORY, ONLY A DIFFERENT TYPE

[@katrinabromley5129]

You should react to Patsy Cline. Jewel has an excellent cover of Cline’s “She’s Got You”. Then follow the rabbit hole on Patsy Cline.

[@kierstenridgway4634]

So many have and still try and replicate her style. Imo, it does not work. She does it so well. I can't listen to mumbling of others trying to do this.

[@carlahelin5203]

lol. Right?! I covered “You Were Meant for Me”. Could do the guitar part and sing it ok but not like her and she changes how she sings her songs like every time!!! So fluid and talented. ❤

[@mikemiller3069]

I've heard this song many times but still had trouble understanding her in this live version. It is passionate, but she kind of mumbles through the words in this version. Check out the studio version and you'll know what I mean.

[@aafsterlife9647]

Do you like Bonnie Raitt, Saeed? Would love to see your reaction to I Can't Make You Love Me.