TRAINWRECKORDS: "0304" by Jewel

[@willeeuhm]

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

[@StrickenWithFear]

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

[@RyanStorey1231]

+

[@nathanshlap]

The only causality was her career.

[@peachmelba1000]

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

[@ToddintheShadows]

Best comment

[@chuckrainey8036]

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]

Oh heck

[@CSXIV]

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

[@Angel-of8kz]

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.]

Jewel’s lifestyle truly did determine her deathstyle.

[@nikeneon3188]

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

[@Savannah_Simpson]

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]

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]

Kermit at least has the ability to be funny.

[@rawkhawk414]

That is so poetic 😅😂

[@neutralman9124]

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

[@nomobobby]

@@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

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

I’m sorry the old jewel can’t come to the phone right now Why Because she’s dead Edit: 9:00 I guess I should have gone with a Katy Perry joke instead of a Taylor Swift joke here

[@rasix86]

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

[@noreski435]

@@rasix86 r/woosh

[@JB-mw9pj]

@@rasix86 BRUH

[@calibaby6913]

​@@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]

Fuck you

[@mrsofaking3938]

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

[@elizabethashley42]

It was heinous then, it's heinous now.

[@RobHeathers]

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

[@louschwick7301]

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]

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

[@kaiokendo]

"Hold my beer" -Color me Badd

[@Albeit_Jordan]

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

[@hucklebucklin]

Contactless delivery, stay covid safe

[@venichen1]

Funny how that got super relevant in 2020.

[@marcosomercrest486]

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

[@gut853]

That line walked so Jacob Sartorious could run

[@girlwithaguitar24]

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

[@josephtelegen8754]

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]

Tainted should have been "enriched."

[@vita1ogy.]

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

[@josephtelegen8754]

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

[@vita1ogy.]

@@josephtelegen8754 Valid.

[@stagpie6449]

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

[@smawesomeness]

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

[@stephenemmett9753]

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

[@nomobobby]

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]

@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]

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

[@Jekyllstein_Gray]

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.

[@pymandres]

really makes you think

[@sylph8005]

Didn’t people do this all the time in the 90s/00s?

[@lucheto_real]

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]

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

[@murciadoxial8056]

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]

I never understood the appeal of post-sellout Shakira.

[@ticoangelo]

@@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]

Liz Phair sold out in an amazing way as well.

[@andysee6996]

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]

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]

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

[@ricardoediza2690]

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

[@AJOmega2]

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]

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]

She was part Phoebe from Friends, part Britney Spears.

[@kenrickkahn]

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]

I always thought she was rather pretentious and haughty.

[@MattTee1975]

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

[@polk-e-dot8177]

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

[@MrSkerpentine]

Jewel makes Scott Steiner look like Adrian D. Holmes

[@NovemberXXVII]

@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]

She turned that whole music video into one big pistachio.

[@redhotlizard2636]

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

[@TimmyTickle]

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

[@radiantheguy]

“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]

Both

[@SrSacaninha]

Yes. I mean, no.

[@phastinemoon]

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

[@Rafamawyin]

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

[@BullFrogFace]

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

[@EricOehler01]

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]

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

[@josephtelegen8754]

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

[@maxpowr90]

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

[@kurtcobainpizza5606]

@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]

I bet Peter Murphy was cool though.

[@shawnconway6009]

"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]

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

[@jmckenzie962]

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]

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

[@jmckenzie962]

@@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]

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.

[@jerrell1169]

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

[@PassiveNights]

Jerrell 2 I do that every day

[@jeevithrai7994]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@CylindricalWhistle]

@@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.

[@misantrope]

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]

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]

@@dma69nyc don't forget being Cobain ex wife

[@DaviniaHill]

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

[@yudhabagaskara98]

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

[@ilyanagalen9320]

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.

[@ComfortZoneASMR]

"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]

It sounds like a Shakira or a Christina Aguilera song

[@tegantalks9612]

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.

[@megano2000]

@@tegantalks9612 Sorta?

[@PeriwinklePangolin24]

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]

Intuition is a shitty song, darling. Period.

[@thebowlfosho4974]

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

[@joeybatmania9327]

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]

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

[@xxxbloodyrists666xxx7]

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

[@shawnfields2369]

@@xxxbloodyrists666xxx7 Me too.

[@1000huzzahs]

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

[@SailorMaxie]

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

[@TheEvilWarlock]

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

[@ParsnipPizza]

The people in the comments of Intuition have not learned that

[@jeevithrai7994]

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

[@FIXTREME]

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

[@lordmanshaft1112]

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

[@fitzdraco]

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

[@NJGuy1973]

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]

Yes

[@NA-kz5po]

@LTrain 45 👀

[@JennaLeigh]

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

[@ktownshutdown21]

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

[@dennett316]

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]

don't you mean "with such casualty?"

[@bobomob111]

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

[@davidbaird2211]

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

[@moonlily1]

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]

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.

[@originalusername7186]

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

[@kevinrooney3351]

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]

Yeah, since record companies let you do that…

[@kidwaryodproduction]

And year later, Rammstein released "Amerika"

[@ATBPRODUCTlONS]

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.

[@kevinforbesofficial]

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]

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

[@AnArchyRulzz]

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]

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

[@tafua_a]

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

[@thatlemonadeguy6742]

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

[@RatzaChewy]

...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]

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

[@johnathom-v3y]

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]

Demon Days is pretty good Bush criticism.

[@UBvtuber]

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

[@floydlooney6837]

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

[@ThejollyFrenchman]

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]

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

[@qty1315]

I think she meant 'satire'.

[@Torthrodhel]

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]

@@Torthrodhel My eyes...

[@murciadoxial8056]

@@Torthrodhel Is like poetry!

[@platoschauvet]

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]

based

[@liriodendronlasianthus]

As a bisexual, saaaame

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

this resonates too hard man

[@eyeheartsushi2212]

😂😂😂

[@Lowlander2]

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

[@nathanshlap]

SuperLowlander It's true.

[@Rikku147]

SuperLowlander going on my tombstone

[@jlprizm]

Truth.

[@xNeo64]

I'm the biggest failure

[@flyingsnake3737]

The statistics prove it.

[@ToddintheShadows]

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]

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

[@masonlamb7007]

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]

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]

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

[@waffleless]

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.

[@aobasuzukaze1032]

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

[@patricklauer4452]

Aoba Suzukaze same

[@livwake]

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

[@liquidstone14]

@@livwake and how did that go for her

[@timcosgrove707]

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

[@franco1926]

@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.

[@QuikVidGuy]

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]

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]

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

[@Brillemeister]

Just follow your hot bang bang

[@briangronberg6507]

I thought it was “Follow your big bank.”

[@quackmeister1238]

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]

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

[@timetochronicle]

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

[@medes5597]

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]

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]

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

[@liimlsan3]

"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]

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

[@johnindigo5477]

@@rommix0 how old are you

[@mimkyodar]

Um... Food Fight?

[@josephtelegen8754]

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

[@MrSkerpentine]

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

[@docdave15]

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

[@christopherminutolo9384]

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

[@Maniac536]

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

[@barneythedinosaur4877]

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]

Barney TheDinosaur Toddstradamus strikes again

[@darkhero-3097]

Barney TheDinosaur That is how it usually happens.

[@dustymax56]

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

[@MyMessyMind]

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

[@TheSongwritingCat]

I would settle for a second season of Platinum Hit.

[@ImmaURq]

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

[@Aster_Risk]

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

[@robinchesterfield42]

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]

Robin Chesterfield Yeah, that’d be New Jack Swing

[@roarshach13]

We already got that. Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.

[@MedalionDS9]

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

[@willtheangrydudeist9120]

Brian Setzer pulled it off...

[@stefanfilipovits21]

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]

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

[@CyberStockholmSyndrome]

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]

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

[@petercahill6696]

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]

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

[@MusicMaestro221]

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

[@theunwelcome]

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

[@michaellee8816]

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...

[@unwritten_zephyr]

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.

[@tafua_a]

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

[@ilyanagalen9320]

‘’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]

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]

​@@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.

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

Even "The Who Sell Out" was obviously supposed to be a joke.

[@CyberStockholmSyndrome]

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]

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

[@YelenaSkunky]

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 😅

[@TheMightyPika]

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]

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]

@@ApacheDawn2020 : )

[@TwoMarshmallows1]

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

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

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

[@TheHSIHP]

What a sad comment but I hear you

[@silenthero101]

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

[@EpicB]

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

[@garystack9537]

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]

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

[@Gabe413]

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

[@ronniejdio9411]

@@Gabe413 all of em

[@Vercalos]

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

[@rabidfirefox8914]

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

[@brianchavez2829]

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

[@MrPeaTearGryfin]

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.

[@starzzzy22]

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]

Same here

[@yo-wy6zx]

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

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Ironicaly of course

[@michaelboydston313]

Polanski is banned in America

[@kidwaryodproduction]

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

[@tafua_a]

@@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]

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

[@MK-dh2mi]

"just so CASUALLY" vs. "such casualty"

[@duffman18]

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]

duffman18 look at all these paragraphs no one asked for

[@matteframe]

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

[@Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat]

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

[@duffman18]

@@Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat yeah and he was wrong

[@topicvideosguy]

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

[@matteframe]

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

[@avacatherine5646]

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

[@Jaceblue04]

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

[@edwarddorey4480]

Ok, misogynist.

[@2-d_in_a_bag]

​@@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.

[@siriusmeixiu]

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

[@Yukinoomoni]

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

[@cremetangerine82]

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

[@BillPeschel]

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

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

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

[@bobgreen1236]

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

[@LadyTylerBioRodriguez]

@@bobgreen1236 Very few ever have been.

[@taylorann5984]

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

[@hannahmellinger6789]

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

[@ricochade3842]

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]

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

[@shawnfields2369]

@@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.

[@shawnfields2369]

@@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?

[@shawnfields2369]

@@daelen.cclark Oh...OK. I get it, sorry about that. I also, don't put makeup on, anywhere, (even in the shower). I would definitely CONSIDER singing and dancing(in other places besides the shower), but I've never actually done anything like that in the shower before, although...I've seen some movies and these newfangled "music vi-deo", thingies, and played games, WHERE you sing and dance(sometimes in a shower, sometimes not in a shower, like the Saints Row games, and not the awful reboot). But these "movie picture" things; are on a WHOLE new level, dude/madam!

[@BennieTarrMusic]

@@shawnfields2369 It's because American men at the time we're aroused by women.

[@chicagoakland]

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

[@ThierryRocksTV]

He did it :D

[@Flowtail]

For anybody too lazy to search for it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnOUmHqLgLBqoMk

[@DoveAlexa]

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

[@ProgrammedForDamage]

@@ThierryRocksTV And it's glorious!

[@IABITVpresents]

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

[@ponygon777]

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

[@tylerhackner9731]

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]

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]

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

[@prismaze]

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

[@matthewmcree1992]

@@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).

[@brailleme7441]

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)

[@stewieismyhomeboy]

The only thing that could save Jewel was the Roast of Rob Lowe, where she said "As a feminist, I can't support what's being said up here about Ann Coulter. But as someone who hates Ann Coulter, I'm delighted." By the way, loving the new series, can't wait for the next installment, Todd!

[@tonyjurkas2791]

Jewel is probably a cool person.

[@Aster_Risk]

@@tonyjurkas2791 She seems to not take herself too seriously based on more recent interviews I've seen. She seems like a warm, funny person.

[@zombiedodge1426]

@@tonyjurkas2791 She was in "Walk Hard" so she's cool by default. (Speaking of which: if you haven't seen "Walk Hard," for God's sake, stop whatever you're doing and watch it right now. It might be the greatest comedy film released so far this millennium.)

[@tidypog3272]

"We live in a society" Alaska girl

[@Elias___]

I'm ironically hitting the like button. I'm ironically leaving this comment.

[@zombieedrea]

Sebastian Grindborg I'm ironically thumbing up this comment and ironically leaving my own.

[@Septicor]

I'm ironically making an Alanis Morrissette joke reference, but it's ironic. Don't you think?

[@FarHowling]

My comment will be just a casualty

[@KidSnivy69]

I'm ironically annoyed by this song

[@siddgeir1312]

FarHowling im casualty replying to your ironic comment

[@izzy1221]

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

[@nathanshlap]

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

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

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]

Isagail I hope he does Liz Phair next.

[@crazyluigi6664]

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]

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

[@TMC1982Part2]

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.

[@Ratleen]

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

[@jbwarner8626]

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

[@pinkrose8272]

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

[@WobblesandBean]

10:00 This, right here, is why Jewel faded into obscurity. She just doesn't have what it takes. She's not an entertainer, she spent every last one of her performances standing there stock-still, eyes closed. Anyone who's ever sung karaoke could do that.

[@KrisRN23935]

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]

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

[@EpicB]

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

[@FaeQueenCory]

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]

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

[@Demiglitch]

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.

[@Keopro]

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.

[@drew413]

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)

[@PineappleLiar]

Not since Cinemadonna have I been this excited!

[@justinmaceira8649]

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

[@shaunandthebugs]

It's her best album and I stand by that

[@tylerhackner9731]

This needs to happen for the series

[@tylerhackner9731]

Either Bionic or Lotus

[@360whiplash]

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

[@JP-ve7or]

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]

@@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.

[@janinewolverine]

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

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

[@sd316gaming2]

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

[@Nakia11798]

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

[@EpicB]

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

[@Lightspeeds]

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

[@collegerebel]

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]

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

[@josephtelegen8754]

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]

Must be an Alaskan accent

[@MetalSandman999]

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

[@EmeraldLavigne]

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

[@MetalSandman999]

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

[@tylerensminger]

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

[@GoDrex]

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

[@propername4830]

Nostradamus

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

And then...2010 happened.

[@casketbase7750]

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]

Jack Casey Cole Porter lost a leg?

[@casketbase7750]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@metalmessiah4127]

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

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

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]

Gotta pay the bills somehow!

[@Aster_Risk]

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

[@ronniejdio9411]

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

[@ArchangelSteve]

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

[@NinjaDash360]

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

[@matan6737]

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

[@ronniejdio9411]

Platoon

[@spd0765]

the 'parody' bit really reminds me of katy perry and her woman's world music video help

[@IjeomaThePlantMama]

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

[@tafua_a]

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"

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

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?

[@lopezfan24]

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

[@sudevsen]

Brian Griffin Top 10 hit songs from 1752

[@itsbosh3345]

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]

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]

Sudev Sen i love todd

[@robinchesterfield42]

+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!

[@moviemaster8510]

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

[@RyanStorey1231]

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]

musically the two albums were very different

[@petercahill6696]

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.

[@TheBleanaru]

The absolute whiplash I had when you showed the first song off the album after explaining who she was because I KNOW that song but NOTHING ELSE about her. I grew up with that song!

[@fugithegreat]

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.

[@troyschulz2318]

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]

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

[@Cosmic_Yak]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[@MikeImprixis]

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

[@SomeRPGFan]

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

[@MikeImprixis]

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

[@CukiKuin]

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

[@TimmyTickle]

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

[@SomeRPGFan]

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.

[@GriffinPilgrim]

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

[@mediocremarty4500]

2003 Jewel: The waitress brings me lunch/we meet but do not touch 2020 Me: GOOD

[@kurayamidesu]

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

[@uhhhmaeve]

I just noticed that the video for the second single features that old conspiracy theory that talking on cell phones gives you brain cancer Jesus Christ, Jewel

[@RyanStorey1231]

I wonder if she's an anti-vaxxer.

[@AFanOfCinema]

Jamie Ryan Storey Probably.

[@mc-ps-playa5569]

Jamie Ryan Storey Likely

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Karen?

[@daredrogers3884]

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 From my basic understanding of Karens she is at least 3% Karen in order for that percentage to get boosted she needs to do the following, 1: get the haircut 2: Constantly wants to talk to a manage 3: get a Facebook 4:post a bunch of minion memes 5:Join an MLM (preferably the ones who sells scented oils) Three through five kinda go into hunbot territory but, there is a bit of overlap with the Karens and Hunbots.

[@KonkeyVG]

Lorde with her newest album just had the exact same career trajectory, justified in the exact same way. Solar Power is also playing into this "I'm selling out to be ironic it's deep social commentary" theme, and it also failed.

[@Peter-jv3fv]

I wouldn't say "selling out" since Lorde's music has always been pop, but yeah it is self-defeating in the same way, cause if it's really supposed to be satire, it's basically saying "don't listen to this, it sucks".

[@neutralman9124]

solar power is such a bad album.

[@stxrstrxckmxteo515]

i haven’t listened to the album but that makes me kinda sad I loved the song solar power it was amazing as an early summer lead single and the hype for her comeback was real. I think she should’ve titled the album differently and maybe had a different cover. But dang I didn’t know the album was selling out I’m gonna have to go listen now

[@StudioScarecrow]

Lorde always made pop music, it was just better pop music than what was on Solar Power. I’m sure she’ll bounce back. This album isn’t particularly well liked but I don’t know why it would be a career killer

[@sirgemini5743]

hell yes, solar power would definitely make a really great trainwreckords episode in the near future. after all, this is the girl who released royals, the song that not only won a couple of grammys and received praise from not only professional music critics but also from music icons like david bowie, mick jagger and (i think) paul mccartney but also changed the pop game big time. from plastic party pop stars like kesha, christina aguilera, katy perry, britney spears and rhianna to all these dark, edgy and so called real pop stars throughout the years like halsey, billie ellish, jon bellion, tove lo, blackbear, sia. so for her to go from a unique alternative pop sound to sounding like a poor man's version of colbie caillat is super akward and more of a fall from grace. and i doubt that she'll bounce back to superstardom. maybe she'll released a more well received album but back to mainstream success, i doubt it. if katy perry couldn't have mainstream success with her most recent album smile back in late 2020, then i hardly doubt lorde will ever do. another one i would like to talk about that also fits well in this situation is logic's concessions of a dangerous mind. it didn't exactly killed his career but it definitely killed his mainstream relevance. he lost a lot of fans with that disastrous album that they saw it as a sad attempt to sell out. however, this past may on a podcast i think, he claimed that it was supposed to be a "parody" of mainstream mumble rap, that he's "pretending" to sell out but all it ever did was just prove to all the people who labled logic as corny just prove their point right.

[@mokinokaro]

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.

[@CazTheGamerGuy]

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.