Line #33 Music/Jewel


1	[[quoteright:226:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jewel.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:226: ''I'm just a simple girl\
3	In a high-tech digital world'']]
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5	-> ''"I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave."''
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7	Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah), better known by just [[OneNameOnly her first name]], is an American singer-songwriter. She has been singing solo professionally since early 1995, when she released her debut album ''Pieces of You'', which went 12× platinum and has since become one of the best-selling debut albums of all time. [[SignatureSong "Foolish Games"]], a single on this album, held the record for the longest chart run of a single (sixty-five weeks), and still holds the second-longest chart run.
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9	She has since released twelve more albums; while her sound is often characterized by guitar and folky sounds as well as wordy lyrics and imperfect rhymes, several of her albums marked [[GenreShift notable shifts]] [[OutOfGenreExperience in musical style]], which led to varying degrees of success. It should be noted that the main offender of this, her 2003 {{pop}} album ''0304'', debuted at at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 and quickly went gold. Her later albums have suffered the opposite, most notably the foray into CountryMusic with ''Perfectly Clear'' and ''Sweet and Wild''.
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11	Jewel has also released two books, a poetry book and an autobiography. She also starred in the movie ''Film/RideWithTheDevil'', and has guest-starred on numerous TV shows. She served as a judge on ''Series/TheSingOff'' starting in Season 4, and won Season 6 of ''Series/TheMaskedSinger'' as the Queen of Hearts. She's additionally a well-known philanthropist, donating a portion of her income [[http://www.highergroundhumanity.org/ Higher Ground for Humanity]], particularly [[http://www.jeweljk.com/?content=project_clean_water The Clean Water Project]], as well as being a spokeswoman for the group Stop Breast Cancer for Life.
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13	She currently lives in Stephenville, Texas.
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15	!!Albums:
16	* ''Pieces of You'' (1995)
17	* ''Spirit'' (1998)
18	* ''Joy'' (1999)
19	* ''This Way'' (2001)
20	* ''0304'' (2003)
21	* ''Goodbye Alice in Wonderland'' (2006)
22	* ''Perfectly Clear'' (2008)
23	* ''Lullaby'' (2009)
24	* ''Sweet and Wild'' (2010)
25	* ''The Merry Goes Round'' (2011)
26	* ''Greatest Hits'' (2013)
27	* ''Let It Snow'' (2013)
28	* ''Picking Up the Pieces'' (2015)
29	* ''Freewheelin' Woman'' (2022)
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31	!!Books:
32	* ''A Night Without Armor''
33	* ''Chasing Down the Dawn''
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35	!!Tropes found in Jewel's music:
36	* AudienceParticipationSong: In live shows, she encourages the audience to sing the final chorus to "You Were Meant For Me"
37	* BookEnds: On her album ''Pieces of You'', several songs begin and end with the same line, usually as a DarkReprise
38	* CanonDisContinuity: Typically the aforementioned ''0304''
39	* CluelessAesop: She tried to make a political song with "America", but her label forced her to change some of the lyrics, which ended up muddling the message.
40	--> ''We are getting tan in America\
41	We love Spam in America\
42	Polanski's banned from America''
43	* ClusterFBomb: "Pieces of You" for "faggot".
44	* CoverVersion: She's gone on the record of only doing covers of Cole Porter
45	* ChristmasSongs: 2 Xmas albums
46	* GenreShift: Both a brief dance-pop detour in ''0304'', and an attempt to go into country. "Stronger Woman" was a minor hit, but the rest of her country career didn't pan out.
47	* IncrediblyLongNote: "Last Dance Rodeo"
48	* LastNoteNightmare: More like "Last Lyric Nightmare." The song "This Little Bird" (a bonus track on ''Spirit'') is a song about a bird happily flying about... only for its final line to mention the bird eventually dying.
49	* Letters2Numbers: ''0304'' has "Run 2 U", "2 Find U" and "2 Become 1".
50	* LivesInAVan: She lived in her car for about a year until she made it big.
51	* MurderBallad: "Nicotine Love"
52	* NewSoundAlbum: ''0304'', which shifted her folksy tunes to dance-pop with an ironic twist. It sticks out even compared to her country output.
53	** To describe the rest of her career: ''Pieces of You'' was folk rock, ''Spirit'' was a bit more poppier folk rock, ''This Way'' was modern pop rock, ''Goodbye Alice in Wonderland'' was a combination of ''Spirit'' and ''This Way'', ''Perfectly Clear'' was ''Spirit'' with a country flavor, ''Lullaby'' was children's lullabies, ''Sweet and Wild'' was country and ''The Merry Goes 'Round'' was children's music.
54	* OlderThanTheyLook: She's in her late-40s? What?!
55	* PaperThinDisguise: [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4a87d48fdd/undercover-karaoke-with-jewel Once sang]] her own songs at a Karaoke bar while wearing a wig and a fake nose.
56	* RearrangeTheSong: Most prominently "Who Will Save Your Soul" and "Fragile Heart"
57	* StealthParody: ''0304'' was intended as a parody of bubblegum pop music, but critics and most of her fanbase mistook it for a straight example. [[CreatorKiller Her career has never recovered]].
58	* TextlessAlbumCover: ''Spirit''
59	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: ''Fading'', where a woman has a mental breakdown in a Wal-Mart bathroom before being 'taken away.'
60	* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Creator/{{MTV}}'s Kurt Loder once criticized her to her face for confusing "casualty" with "casualness" in one of her poems.

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