0304 - Jewel
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

  • Summary: Album number five finds the singer-songwriter seemingly entering an early mid-life crisis, as she dives headfirst into commercial teen-dance-pop territory.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. It's the first album of hers that's a sheer pleasure to hear.
  2. 80
    The tunes are stunning, her voice has never sounded better and she makes serious points few others would dare in a pop context. [Oct 2003, p.114]
  3. 60
    The first third of 0304 tries too hard to impress.... But soon she calms down and knocks out undeniable hooks. [#17, p.142]
  4. Aside from the razor-thin, plastic-sounding tunes, it's hard to determine what's more disturbing, her acid-hued cover photo or the Prince-y song titles like "Run 2 U," "2 Become 1" and "U & Me = Love."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 29
  2. Negative: 11 out of 29
  1. Great album! 0304 shows a different side of jewel, a pop side that wasn't seen before the record! "Intuition" and "2 Find U" are the best on teh album and really are great and the other 12 songs are just as good also Expand
  2. BrennaA
    10
    I love it, i have been a fan even with her underground stuff. she has a beautiful talent despite that fact that this CD was a total shock to the Jewel fan population Expand
  3. izata
    8
    it's not that bad... but still... quite disappointing as jewel has strayed from her adorable rock-ish country folk singer-songwriter persona... there are great and stupid tracks in this album.. GREAT: INTUITION, STAND, 2 BECOME 1, DOIN FINE, BECOMING. STUPID: AMERICA, U N ME=LOVE Expand
  4. curefreak
    4
    this cd is very confusing its neither all bad or all good in my opinion the things i didnt like was the white washed production wich turns everything into a shiny surface , any cd that tries to be pop should always have some killer beats well this one fails miserably for the most part , shania twain has better beats and most of hers are ripped of from def leppard and bryan adams!! some of the lyrics are downright embarrasing, this cd would have been a masterpiece if every song was along the lines of intuition( why does all jewells cds have killer singles that she has trouble following up with ?) the songs off the top of my hand that werent completly awfull was intuition , two becomes 1, stand, and run to you so pretty much the first 4 four songs , eeek ive sworn off from buying jewells cds from now on cause theyre just too damn inconsistant i really did like her new look tho it was sexxy without being trashy Expand

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