I like easy to like music. I like pop-like music. I can listen to Britney Spears and Fiona Apple and Metallica. I can listen to Damien Rice and Tegan and Sara and Psapp. I like Latin Alternative, Rock and Salsa. I like lots of things. I like music that is VERY EASY to like. I buy most top ten selling songs.
For some reason, Norah Jones is not my cup of tea. She writes astoundingly good songs. I want to like them. I really do. I promise. But for some reason I cannot seem to relax when I hear her music. The soft strumming, the easy piano, the airy, jazzy voice… AAAAHHH. It's like nails on a chalkboard to me. And the lyrics are so nice and I would love to WANT to make love to "Come Away with Me." Can you imagine? Outside on a cool fall evening with wine and a picnic and Norah Jones serenading us? Wouldn't it be great?
No, right? It. Would. Suck.
Because Norah, I'm just not that into you. I like a fuller voice with zero breathiness, unless you truly are turned on. Your voice just irritates me. I'm sorry. I really am. Because I so wanted to like you. Everyone else seems to.
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Perhaps I am not a fair judge of Norah Jones since I tend to dislike female voices at the forefront of songs anyway, but she tries too hard. Easy on the eyes, though.
yeah, i was about to say...she's pretty! i actually have Come Away With Me b/c i really liked Don't Know Why when i heard it. but now that i have it on my iPod, i really don't listen to it at all. when one of her songs comes up on my shuffle, i always bypass it. i dunno. she did a song with Wax Poetic that i really like called "Tell Me" but that's all i got.
Now I know which artist to request at your and Scribe's wedding reception.
Argh, dammit, now it's stuck in my head.
And now for the guilty confession - I 100% platinum-ed the song "I don't know why" on Karaoke Revolution. Go me.
There better be come Meatloaf songs!!!
She's got two things going for her (other than the obvious). She's a most excellent jazz pianist and her Dad is Ravi Shankar.
I think she tries a bit too hard to sound like Billie Holiday.
I actually like Norah Jones. I like some of the other songs off her albums more than the released songs. And more often than not, I like to sing her songs. Her range is perfect for mine.
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