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From Variety:
"In my lifetime, I've seen the record industry taken to its knees," says singer-songwriter Jewel, whose current album, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland," has paled next to her 1996 debut album "Pieces of Me," which shipped 12 million units. "When I was first signed at 19, the idea was that one sold records. Now there is no hope of money by signing for a record. You do it as promotion."
This awards season, she co-wrote and sang "Quest for Love" for Luc Besson's "Arthur and the Invisibles" soundtrack, the ninth single she's written for film, beginning with Sean Penn's 1995 pic "The Crossing Guard."
"In the last year, I performed on TV shows, since radio isn't playing my genre," Jewel adds, "nor are record companies developing artists like me; they're going for the easy cool thing."
Aww, poor Jewel. One question for Ms. Kilcher—by "artists like me," do you mean Alanis-inspired poets, razor-shilling tartlets, or folkies who are trying to convince audiences that Alaska was actually a Southern state? You'll forgive us if we're not entirely sure.
Pop musicians find rockin' role recording for film [Variety]
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Does this mean that Jewel now becomes the leading candidate for the desperation/career-saving Playboy pictorial now that CBS has seemingly delayed Jennifer Love-Hewitt's impending lay-out?
Wow, a semi-attractive blonde folkie with huge knockers whose first record was remade/remixed/remarketed can't get a break in today's fickle pop market. At least she has that plum gig with Cowboy Troy these days...
Ah, she's just pissed Gwen Stefani figured out how to make yodeling a crossover hit.
Doesn't she have some mud to sling at the publishing industry and all you idiot readers out there who didn't like her poetry book? Back in those days the industry was interested in selling on name recognition alone, now they actually require talent. It's a cruel cruel world out there snaggleboobs.
Haha, you couldn't have picked a better picture: from the Chinese stripper top to the western buckle to the semi-bell bottoms to the green wicked witch of the west shoes. Her marketing teams' strategy is about as thought out as throwing a bucket of magnets at a refrigerator.
Ok, ok- she's damn funny in the Miller Lite Man Law commercial. Come on, now!
My favorite Jewel anecdote is from the time she was dating Sean Penn, right around The Crossing Guard. He was "estranged" from his wife, Robin Wright, and living in a fancy trailer on some coastal property he owned in California (I think Malibu). For fun, they used to sit around in lawn chairs, drink beer, and she would watch as he blew away rats with his Glock.
You should never have fixed the crazy chiclets in your cake hole, girl! Dem was lucky. Dem had the spirit! Look at you now!
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