feels like home
Capitol Records
2004
So, you want to know where this album of softly sung soporific sweet-nothings about nothing belongs other than elevators
and dentist offices or alternatively you want to know why you need a reviewer at all if s/he can only come
up with two places fit for such music. Actually, this album is not fit for elevators or dentist offices, because
falling asleep in those two places could be inconvenient.
Norah Jones's "feels like home" may make its appearance at the upper-middle class and upper class bars of the
wine-and-brie set, interludes between performances at jazz bars, catered events at bourgeois hotels and during
foreplay by wimmin trying to de-activate their boyfriends. On the whole, the proletariat does not have much use for
mass phenomena that put people to sleep, thanks to the emergency political situation of war, pollution and starvation
we are in.
On the plus side, while it is traumatic for fans to contemplate how performers like Eminem
and the Rolling Stones will be unsuitable in the more seriously political future thanks to their
oppressive lyrics, the only problem with "feels like home" is how it is advertised. Placed in CVS, Rite-Aid or
any pharmacy in the sleep aids section, this Norah Jones album may reduce the ingestion of chemical substances, cut
back on visits to doctors by patients seeking sleep therapy and maybe save some people from accidents. As it stands
now under arbitrary and profit-crazed capitalism,
this improperly labelled substance may end up in cars and trucks and cause some deaths.
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come away with me
Capitol Records
2002
14 silly love songs--this album could have come out in the 1940s. Passivity, contentment,
quietude--it's all there.
At least the "Dixie Chicks" got themselves in some trouble.
There's nothing to say about
"come away with me." It is suitable for dentist offices, elevators: some songs would be OK
for funerals. The album jacket mentions electric guitar, but do not be fooled: this whole
album is an acoustic effort that uses electricity only by accident.
The only thing we can say about this album is that it is completely anti-social in being
focused on the romantic twosome, but there is nothing really sick in it.
If we have to prioritize banning music, this does not have to be at the top of the list,
but we have no doubt that the pull of the romance culture in this and other music is
crushing the revolutionary movement in the imperialist countries.
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