She was in her teens when she wrote many of the songs on this album and 21 when the album came out in 1994. She was 21 or 22 in this video. Jewel was raised in Alaska busking and singing in bars with her family, and then she went to an arts academy on a scholarship to study operatic singing. She plays guitar and writes poetry. When she came out, the story was that she grew up in Alaska and was homeless and living in her car in San Diego when she was discovered singing in coffee shops, which is true, but her voice study for some reason was a part of the story never published in stories about her. This was my coming of age era. I feel very fortunate to have has music from Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Jewel, Joan Osborne, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Björk, Natalie Merchant and others who were so, so talented and unique. I hate to be that old person (at 43) who says it, but something happened after this brief period between the mid-90s and the early 2000s when new talents of this caliber became so rare. It's really strange. Realize that Jewel as with most others at the time wrote her own lyrics and she sang entirely without any kind of technologies like Autotune or other pitch correction. Just an excellent and extraordinary voice, a strong writer and also a musician.
She has such beautiful control of the color of her voice. From bright and childlike to dark and somber to an intimate whisper. She paints the song with her vocal timbre.❤
Absolutely exquisite.❤️. My favorite Jewel song. Yes so emotional. Who will save your soul, Down so long, You we're meant for me. just a few of her great songs.
Came upon your video. I used to like Jewel and will rediscover her after this. Thx:) Also, great analyzing and depicting the lock and key relationships. Makes complete sense to me.🙌🏻 You could be my shrink.😆
I realize that, no matter how much another lives you, you cannot force yourself to feel and return that love, however . . . . Someone how there somewhere broke that girl's tender heart and she puts her pain in every word.
All three of my top 3's are from the album Pieces of you. Tracks are "Don't" (track 11), "Amen" (14) and "Morning Song" I recommend doing them in this order for this reason. "Don't" is a love song, of a sort, "Amen" is... heavy material. "Morning Song" is much lighter, and can serve as a balm after "Amen"
I actually requested this song on your Discord page, so thank you for finally reacting to it! I listened to this song on repeat when it came out more times than I'd like to admit; I was so dramatic and emotional and it felt like Jewel had read my mind with these lyrics! I really like your interesting take on it.
i watched a live performance a while ago where she said the original of this song was a 9 minute folk song with a guitar until one of the go-gos got brought on and they worked on this arrangement
Interesting analysis. I had not heard it quite put that way, but it is definitely a psychological transaction that is being made. The really interesting thing is if the guy did open himself up and give his love, someone like what Jewel is portraying would immediately be done with him and discard him. The attraction is the constant striving to win their hearts, and if they get it they become bored.
Melancholy was a very accurate way to describe the music. Very beautiful and honestly, pretty relatable lyrics. Really enjoyed the reaction! Also, the trauma bonding discussion is honestly such an important thing that people should know, so thank you for discussing that.
I just stumbled onto your video because I like Jewel and then I stuck around for you to share your thoughts on relationships and what not and I felt it was pretty interesting to listen to. So I guess maybe I’ll check out some more of your videos because you might be therapeutic in a way. Who knows? Thanks for the video.
I have always loved this song. I totally get the word "uncomfortable", because there are moments where it's absolutely gut wrenching to listen to - in the best possible way. The way she says "breaking my heart" actually IS heartbreaking to me, it's so full of emotion and pain.
Jewel knows firsthand about pain and hardsip. before she made it big she was penniless and living in her car. She sings her lyrics with a raw authenticity. I saw her live in 2009, she sounds even more phenominal in person.
This was from her debut album, Jewel's voice is like no other! I know you don't take requests here but wanted to say, It's worth doing the whole album in a reaction. Nice reaction & Thanks for taking a leap into Jewel Cheers from Canada
How did we go from such a sensitive and vulnerable generation of music to what is around now. I am truly saddened by this. A beautiful song like from women of that time... Sarah McLaughlin, Alanis Morissette, Paula Cole, Natalie Umbrugia(?), Sheryl Crow...the list goes on.
I'm curious about what the video might be about. What the horse, the Asian women, the two Jewels, in the black dress/white dress. I like your interpretation of the song.
@@heartheart5543 It's not wildly different, but the vocals are delivered a little differently. I used to own the cd back in the 90s. ua-cam.com/video/gG4Ba19HYYw/v-deo.html
For some reason I never enjoyed this version. If you felt this was dark, then you'd find the album version even darker and more melancholic. That's the best version of this song for me, and I think she never captured it live quite that well ever again.
If you liked this song, you’ll love the version she did as a duet with Kelly Clarkson, a few years ago, as part of her Greatest Hits album. 🔥🔥 ua-cam.com/video/s7IGeOuDXv8/v-deo.html 🔥🔥
This was from the Batman Forever soundtrack, so it was obviously overshadowed by Seal Kiss From a Rose. It is sad that after this she got implants and made really bad pop music for a few years. Like I love Britney and Beyonce but don't try to make Jewel be them.
@@antonreacts Not to get personal or anything (don't take it the wrong way) but listening to you talk and "react" to songs, you seem very sensitive and in touch with your emotions, feelings quite well. Often, when I listen to you express and articulate about the songs, I feel like I'm listening to myself talk to someone. Your words, thoughts are so similar to my vocabulary the way you articulate and speak. I'm a Pisces with Leo rising, also a "Metal Rabbit", so a double Pisces, so I'm told.. Hence why I thought you might be a "Pisces" because of the way you articulate and express yourself.😎
@@Rhiannon011 I am for sure in touch with my emotions, and at the same time I have a strong "bro" side of me too, that rarely comes out on this particular channel, more on the rock and metal channel. I always consider myself "masculine of center" in that my dominant energy is structured and ambitous but I have a soft and sensitive side in me that balances me out. I think without that I would be an investment banker LOL As I love finance and money too. Interesting perspective though Barb!
You Were Meant For Me is amazing too, but needs to be the music video version. Also, I know you will love her song Hands. Very bittersweet but uplifting.
Thanks Anton! Great reaction. 👍❤ Jewel is truly a treasure and so very talented and stunningly beautiful. I HIGHLY recommend you watch her GOOSEBUMP inducing, spine-tingling, live performance of Angel Standing By at the 1997 Music Video Awards. ua-cam.com/video/W-1Vpir1mYA/v-deo.html The story behind this song makes it a truly inspiring, heartbreakingly poignant song. This song came to Jewel during a dark night of the soul while she was homeless and living out of a car.
Hauntingly melancholic but flirting with frustration and anger in subtle nuances …this song is forever a masterpiece. Jewel herself is such a severely slept on artist and vocalist, but I have always admired that she’s never been so much about fame as she has with connecting to the listener with her lyric and vocal composition. I don’t think she cares that anyone remembers her name but that they remember her music and how it made them feel in that moment. I grew up listening to her, my mum still does too, Pieces Of Me was amongst one of the few first albums I was gifted as a kid, I was 8 years old at the time, but her music just seemed to echo and resonate with my soul and still does to this day. Speaking of Soul, “Who Will Save Your Soul” is another incredible masterpiece as is her very satirical track “Intuition”…absolute gold.
oh! nobody's reacted to her and her catalog is full of amazing talented music.... this song is about Sean Penn...nxxt song...*who will save your soul?*
She did a live version of this song on David letterman, and it was beyond powerful. Still remember it after all these years. It should be on you tube - have a look
Dude…can you react to jewels new song called Long way round??? It just came out. It’s got such an amazing message about taking the long way around to getting to a better you but in this cool message in a song. Cheers! Hope you see this!
My top 3 favorite Jewel songs 1. Foolish games ( I remembering being a bit obsessed with this music video back in the day. Hauntingly beautiful song and video 2. Hands 3. Who will save your soul
I'm a guy and even so I have to admit I almost cry every time I hear this. I don't like when females have a broken heart. I just want to hug them and let them know it'll be ok and I'll help get her through it.
My friend went to high school with Jewel so when her first album pieces of me came out he gave me one of the first copies. Joel came from Alaska yodeling all her life and after high school she became homeless crossing the US in a Volkswagen van. This album was our first real break so she was they’re young maybe 19. This song immediately became the song of my life listen to on repeat everywhere I went for years. It was given to me right at the end of a five-year relationship, talk about a trauma bond. You are so right. It took me years and years to get over and to understand what had happened to me and the trauma that remained even through the first 10 years of my marriage. Jewel is so special. I can’t thank you enough for reacting to the song I haven’t seen one anywhere on here before. It helped me discover a lot. Great reaction. It wasWas released in 1995
She is underrated vocalist and singer/songwriter. I believe she wrote most of not all of her songs unless they were covers. Like Celine, her live vocal performances are so much better than the recordings. Hopefully someday you’ll start reacting to live performances.
She's also so normal. She never had that celebrity status chip on her shoulder, she seems like that girl you run into shopping at Aldi or Trader Joe's or something LOL. She's an artist that never let it go to her head, she's so humble. I'd say the same about Debbie Gibson. "Lost In Your Eyes" would be a great song to take a look at as well.
Her whole Pieces of You album is amazing!!!!
I used to steal it from my sisters room and listen to it in secret so no one knew lmao. Now I blast it in my car without a care in the world
She was in her teens when she wrote many of the songs on this album and 21 when the album came out in 1994. She was 21 or 22 in this video.
Jewel was raised in Alaska busking and singing in bars with her family, and then she went to an arts academy on a scholarship to study operatic singing. She plays guitar and writes poetry. When she came out, the story was that she grew up in Alaska and was homeless and living in her car in San Diego when she was discovered singing in coffee shops, which is true, but her voice study for some reason was a part of the story never published in stories about her.
This was my coming of age era. I feel very fortunate to have has music from Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Jewel, Joan Osborne, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette, Björk, Natalie Merchant and others who were so, so talented and unique. I hate to be that old person (at 43) who says it, but something happened after this brief period between the mid-90s and the early 2000s when new talents of this caliber became so rare. It's really strange. Realize that Jewel as with most others at the time wrote her own lyrics and she sang entirely without any kind of technologies like Autotune or other pitch correction. Just an excellent and extraordinary voice, a strong writer and also a musician.
As a 46 yr old, I have to totally agree with you!
Yes🙌😊
Great song and reaction. If you haven’t heard or reacted to ‘You were meant for me’, you need to.
That is my favorite by her.
You're spoiling us Anton. This is a masterpiece indeed. Jewel and Kelly Clarkson did a live version of this gem a few months back. Just WOW!!!!!!! ❤️
He has not seen it
She has such beautiful control of the color of her voice. From bright and childlike to dark and somber to an intimate whisper. She paints the song with her vocal timbre.❤
Absolutely exquisite.❤️. My favorite Jewel song. Yes so emotional. Who will save your soul, Down so long, You we're meant for me. just a few of her great songs.
A Jewel!!!! She could Yodel, and you could see it. This song, her voice and lyrics give you Goosebumps!❤
I love the piano here, I used to play this a lot.
If you want to see an incredible emotional connection to a song, Jewel's live performance of Mercy on On Point is like being connected at the vein.
Her voice is haunting...absolutely amazing song.
I sang my heart out to this as a teenager ❤️
I did too, and it always moved me, but now as a 36 year old man, it hits me like a dumptruck emotionally.
Beautiful Song!! Jewel is wonderful songwriter. Look up my favorite Angel Standing By!!
Thank you for posting 🎧🎶🎻
She has a wonderful discography! Try "Break Me", "You Were Meant For Me", "Standing Still" and "Hands"
She always moves me to tears.
Beautiful song with strong lyrics. I love the impact her voice has on the lyrics. Brilliant piece of music!
Came upon your video. I used to like Jewel and will rediscover her after this. Thx:)
Also, great analyzing and depicting the lock and key relationships. Makes complete sense to me.🙌🏻 You could be my shrink.😆
Love your style Anton. Glad to see you discovering the magic and music i grew up on.
Dammit, this song STILL gets me 🥺
I realize that, no matter how much another lives you, you cannot force yourself to feel and return that love, however . . . .
Someone how there somewhere broke that girl's tender heart and she puts her pain in every word.
Jewel is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
All three of my top 3's are from the album Pieces of you. Tracks are "Don't" (track 11), "Amen" (14) and "Morning Song"
I recommend doing them in this order for this reason. "Don't" is a love song, of a sort, "Amen" is... heavy material. "Morning Song" is much lighter, and can serve as a balm after "Amen"
I actually requested this song on your Discord page, so thank you for finally reacting to it! I listened to this song on repeat when it came out more times than I'd like to admit; I was so dramatic and emotional and it felt like Jewel had read my mind with these lyrics! I really like your interesting take on it.
i watched a live performance a while ago where she said the original of this song was a 9 minute folk song with a guitar until one of the go-gos got brought on and they worked on this arrangement
90s were awesome, “Pieces of You” is a great album
this song needs to be heard live. 2020 version is my fav.
Interesting analysis. I had not heard it quite put that way, but it is definitely a psychological transaction that is being made. The really interesting thing is if the guy did open himself up and give his love, someone like what Jewel is portraying would immediately be done with him and discard him. The attraction is the constant striving to win their hearts, and if they get it they become bored.
I never heard a Jewel song I didn't like.
Melancholy was a very accurate way to describe the music. Very beautiful and honestly, pretty relatable lyrics. Really enjoyed the reaction! Also, the trauma bonding discussion is honestly such an important thing that people should know, so thank you for discussing that.
A defining song and voice.❤️
I was going to suggest Jewel the other day! You gotta check out “you were meant for me” and “who will save your soul” as well.
Jewel was 21 when the album with song came out in 1995.
I just stumbled onto your video because I like Jewel and then I stuck around for you to share your thoughts on relationships and what not and I felt it was pretty interesting to listen to. So I guess maybe I’ll check out some more of your videos because you might be therapeutic in a way. Who knows? Thanks for the video.
Great song. The album version is even better.
In fact this entire album is a must listen beginning to end.
Agreed, very haunting. Check out some of Natalie Merchant songs - from Carnival and Ophelia - the most beautiful and haunting voice.
I have always loved this song. I totally get the word "uncomfortable", because there are moments where it's absolutely gut wrenching to listen to - in the best possible way. The way she says "breaking my heart" actually IS heartbreaking to me, it's so full of emotion and pain.
Yes Merek! One of my favourite songs! So haunting!
I hope you get round to my requests on the Discord. I submitted them on the first day 🙏🏻💕
Jewel is a phenomenal talent. Her songwriting and singing talent are beautiful.
Amazing reaction. Jewel's music in the 1990s was quintessential. Amazing.
I love this song. Jewel is unique and very talented voice. Another great/popular song of hers is You Were Meant For Me.
Jewel knows firsthand about pain and hardsip. before she made it big she was penniless and living in her car. She sings her lyrics with a raw authenticity. I saw her live in 2009, she sounds even more phenominal in person.
This whole album is amazing. True fact, I bought my first CDs from a pawn shop, they were 5 for twenty dollars, and this was one of them. Great album.
1. Break Me (album version)
2. Foolish Games
3. Standing Still
This was from her debut album,
Jewel's voice is like no other!
I know you don't take requests here but wanted to say,
It's worth doing the whole album in a reaction.
Nice reaction & Thanks for taking a leap into Jewel
Cheers from Canada
U said it. Love the violin. Adds so much
How did we go from such a sensitive and vulnerable generation of music to what is around now. I am truly saddened by this. A beautiful song like from women of that time... Sarah McLaughlin, Alanis Morissette, Paula Cole, Natalie Umbrugia(?), Sheryl Crow...the list goes on.
If you ever get a chance, check out Undercover Karaoke with Jewel.
She wrote this song when she was 16. Most people believe it is about her relationship with her father.
I'm curious about what the video might be about. What the horse, the Asian women, the two Jewels, in the black dress/white dress. I like your interpretation of the song.
Thanks for the love!!
Loveeee this so much , love your reaction , this song is quite beautiful, can you please react to more of her please .
It’s a song about falling in love.
This is a great song, but I like the album version better than the video version.
Video person is different than album version? Any link to the album version?
@@heartheart5543 It's not wildly different, but the vocals are delivered a little differently. I used to own the cd back in the 90s. ua-cam.com/video/gG4Ba19HYYw/v-deo.html
Have you ever react to Suzanne Vega - Luka? You will be amazed with the lyrical content of the song. Heartbreaking.
For some reason I never enjoyed this version. If you felt this was dark, then you'd find the album version even darker and more melancholic. That's the best version of this song for me, and I think she never captured it live quite that well ever again.
Can you please react「Down so long」🙏🏻✨
Try this song next ua-cam.com/video/W4tkjTIgMrE/v-deo.html the live version
If you liked this song, you’ll love the version she did as a duet with Kelly Clarkson, a few years ago, as part of her Greatest Hits album. 🔥🔥 ua-cam.com/video/s7IGeOuDXv8/v-deo.html 🔥🔥
Hands would be good
This was from the Batman Forever soundtrack, so it was obviously overshadowed by Seal Kiss From a Rose. It is sad that after this she got implants and made really bad pop music for a few years. Like I love Britney and Beyonce but don't try to make Jewel be them.
Are you a Pisces Arc Vision?
Lots of Libra and Scorpio, then quite a bit of Aquarius and Virgo. I have a lot in my 7th, 8th, and 12th house though (Pisces).
@@antonreacts Not to get personal or anything (don't take it the wrong way) but listening to you talk and "react" to songs, you seem very sensitive and in touch with your emotions, feelings quite well. Often, when I listen to you express and articulate about the songs, I feel like I'm listening to myself talk to someone. Your words, thoughts are so similar to my vocabulary the way you articulate and speak. I'm a Pisces with Leo rising, also a "Metal Rabbit", so a double Pisces, so I'm told.. Hence why I thought you might be a "Pisces" because of the way you articulate and express yourself.😎
@@Rhiannon011 I am for sure in touch with my emotions, and at the same time I have a strong "bro" side of me too, that rarely comes out on this particular channel, more on the rock and metal channel. I always consider myself "masculine of center" in that my dominant energy is structured and ambitous but I have a soft and sensitive side in me that balances me out. I think without that I would be an investment banker LOL As I love finance and money too. Interesting perspective though Barb!
The album version of this song was piano only and is better imo
You Were Meant For Me is amazing too, but needs to be the music video version. Also, I know you will love her song Hands. Very bittersweet but uplifting.
Alan Jackson remember when good song
Thanks Anton! Great reaction. 👍❤
Jewel is truly a treasure and so very talented and stunningly beautiful. I HIGHLY recommend you watch her GOOSEBUMP inducing, spine-tingling, live performance of Angel Standing By at the 1997 Music Video Awards. ua-cam.com/video/W-1Vpir1mYA/v-deo.html The story behind this song makes it a truly inspiring, heartbreakingly poignant song. This song came to Jewel during a dark night of the soul while she was homeless and living out of a car.
Hauntingly melancholic but flirting with frustration and anger in subtle nuances …this song is forever a masterpiece. Jewel herself is such a severely slept on artist and vocalist, but I have always admired that she’s never been so much about fame as she has with connecting to the listener with her lyric and vocal composition. I don’t think she cares that anyone remembers her name but that they remember her music and how it made them feel in that moment. I grew up listening to her, my mum still does too, Pieces Of Me was amongst one of the few first albums I was gifted as a kid, I was 8 years old at the time, but her music just seemed to echo and resonate with my soul and still does to this day. Speaking of Soul, “Who Will Save Your Soul” is another incredible masterpiece as is her very satirical track “Intuition”…absolute gold.
oh! nobody's reacted to her and her catalog is full of amazing talented music.... this song is about Sean Penn...nxxt song...*who will save your soul?*
Love me some Jewel. She won the last season of The Masked Singer. Should definitely check out some of her performances from that.
She did a live version of this song on David letterman, and it was beyond powerful. Still remember it after all these years. It should be on you tube - have a look
Dude…can you react to jewels new song called Long way round??? It just came out. It’s got such an amazing message about taking the long way around to getting to a better you but in this cool message in a song. Cheers! Hope you see this!
Her voice has so much range .
Jewel - Foolish Games
Jewel - You Were Meant For Me
Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul
Jewel - Hands
Love this song and this reaction. Thank you! Her vibrato "is so good" because she grew up yodeling with her dad in Alaska.
My top 3 favorite Jewel songs
1. Foolish games ( I remembering being a bit obsessed with this music video back in the day. Hauntingly beautiful song and video
2. Hands
3. Who will save your soul
I'm a guy and even so I have to admit I almost cry every time I hear this. I don't like when females have a broken heart. I just want to hug them and let them know it'll be ok and I'll help get her through it.
Near You Always is my favorite song by Jewel.
Great song to belt out when you’re driving! 😊
Oh my. Check out
When You Loved Me
Released just this week!
Just found you and this reaction won me over love you
God this was the soundtrack for my angst y teenage life lol. Man I miss those days 😂
I believe i remember her being homeless and leaving in her car when she was trying to get a record deal. She is originally from Alaska
Real talent. Rare these days. Long live the 90s.
She wrote this at 18. Might be 21 in this video
JEWEL "INTUITION" M/V REACTION!
This is a great song. I'm glad you took the time to listen to it.
My favorite song of hers. Listen to the album version. This version was edited down a lot for radio.
My friend went to high school with Jewel so when her first album pieces of me came out he gave me one of the first copies. Joel came from Alaska yodeling all her life and after high school she became homeless crossing the US in a Volkswagen van. This album was our first real break so she was they’re young maybe 19. This song immediately became the song of my life listen to on repeat everywhere I went for years. It was given to me right at the end of a five-year relationship, talk about a trauma bond. You are so right. It took me years and years to get over and to understand what had happened to me and the trauma that remained even through the first 10 years of my marriage. Jewel is so special. I can’t thank you enough for reacting to the song I haven’t seen one anywhere on here before. It helped me discover a lot. Great reaction. It wasWas released in 1995
She is underrated vocalist and singer/songwriter. I believe she wrote most of not all of her songs unless they were covers. Like Celine, her live vocal performances are so much better than the recordings. Hopefully someday you’ll start reacting to live performances.
She's also so normal. She never had that celebrity status chip on her shoulder, she seems like that girl you run into shopping at Aldi or Trader Joe's or something LOL. She's an artist that never let it go to her head, she's so humble. I'd say the same about Debbie Gibson. "Lost In Your Eyes" would be a great song to take a look at as well.