Worth the listen!Reviewed by Jet, 2009-09-08
I'm gonna be honest and say that it's not up to par with "This
Way", "Spirit", or even the immensly underappriciated "Goodbye
Alice In Wonderland". But "Perfectly Clear" does offer us some
extremly fine moments, Like the gorgeous "I Do", which is up there
in the list of Jewel's best songs. All in all. this is an album
that should definatly be listend to. It's Jewel. so you already
know that it isn't gonna be bad.
My Top 5
1. I Do
2. Perfectly Clear
3. Everything Reminds Me Of You
4. Rosey & Mick
5. Loved By You (Cowboy Waltz)
listen to this album, the songs are truly beautiful!
I Love you Jewel
A True JemReviewed by B. Olson, 2009-05-21
Jewel's first country album really reminds me of her This Way
album. Many articles I have found say her fans may have a hard time
with her flipping genre's all the time. I think that if she were to
realese her original album, Pieces of You, in our current time it
would have been debut in the country genre anyways.
Song that is great, #10, Cowboy Waltz.
They just don't make 'em like they used to...Reviewed by Malorie A. Gutierrez, 2009-03-13
I LOVE Jewel, this cd is a bit lacking. It's missing that fire and passion she had in her voice and lyrics in Pieces of You and Spirit. It's just sort of middle of the road Jewel, not so special.
I Like ItReviewed by Joseph Adams, 2009-03-03
I like Jewel's 2008 album, as hybrid of country and adult alt rock. Her genre defining This Way goes ever forward without gloating. Obviously they're selling this on the attactive looks of the siger almost now a deacade since she broke big on MTV in 1996 or 1997. Easy listening palatable country music rock hybrid. It's not boring either.
So disappointing...Reviewed by Cassandra Bertolucci, 2009-02-27
When I was a teenager, Jewel was my hero. Her heartfelt songs and
odd melodies captured my imagination for three albums
straight.
Three albums later, Perfectly Clear appears on the scene, and I was
so excited to hear her country "departure".
Excited until I heard it, that is.
One low point, lyrically, was the song "Thump Thump". "I swear I
hear the language of your heart, and it says Thump Thump..." Oh
really? Do tell. Hearing common metaphors about love sung as if
they were something profound also frustrated me, such as "Love is a
garden" or "Love is a game until it's played" (I Do).
Probably the thing that made me move from disappointment to disgust
was the song, "Till It Feels Like Cheating". I'm assuming from the
rest of the lyrics that this is about a married couple who have
been apart for awhile and are having a rendezvous in a hotel room
somewhere. That sounds fine, except the main lyric, "Till it feels
like cheating, till it feels that good." Yuck. Cheating feels good?
Even if it did, it's still a gross lyric.
I've heard her sing some of these songs with just her guitar and
voice, and they are infinitely easier to listen to. Perhaps I
should blame her producer, then, but the whole album does not sound
like a tribute to country music as much as it sounds like she is
almost poking fun at the industry of country music.
Sorry, Jewel. I said "Say it ain't so!" when you came out with
0304, and now I'm saying it again.
