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Jewel has done better.

Keith E. Asbury | 08/14/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Great sound for Jewel, "Gone Country", but there are a couple of songs that are just downright depressing. This would be OK, if it were the "sweet" sadness kind of depressing, but the lyrics are just downright annoying on "Fading" and there are a couple other songs that leave you wishing they weren't there. Overall, short of memorable."

Better than the Last Two

Lori A. Ross | 07/25/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I would like to publicly apologize to Jewel for having doubted her. And I did doubt her. Goodbye alice in Wonderland was an okay album, but nowhere near as good as what she'd done before it. That's probably when I started to lose interest. And then came Perfectly Clear. It was a good concept. After all, why not try to tackle a genre she'd always wanted to be part of? But the result wasn't exactly impressive. If anything, it left me disappointed. Lullaby was pretty much the same: a lovely concept, but not so much in actual execution. So when I found out Jewel was coming out with a new album, I just didn't have that normal excitement I used to when I heard she had new music coming out. That didn't stop me from buying it though.

The day Sweet and Wild came out, my grandmother and I went straight out to get it and listen to it on the way home (a tradition of ours by now, seeing as Jewel is one of the few artists both of us love).

As soon as the first track started, I was glad to have bought it. By the fourth, I was in love. My grandma was too. And we had to play Bad as it Gets three times, just to hear her voice on that song.

Sweet and Wild is the best thing Jewel has done in years, in my opinion. It's not really a return to anything though, which is what a lot of her fans have been hoping for in the past few years. It's a giant leap forward. It's possibly the best thing she's done yet.



No Good in Goodbye - 5/5

I Love You Forever - 4/5

Fading - 3.5/5 (takes a while to grow on you though)

What You Are - 5/5

Bad as it Gets - 5/5 (her voice makes up for what the lyrics are lacking)

Summer Home in Your Arms - 4/5

Stay Here Forever - 4/5 (i thought i hated it at first, but it grew on me)

No More Heartaches - 3/5

One True Thing - 5/5

Ten - 5/5

Satisfied - 4/5

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