The most promising new artist in such a long time.
My friend (let's call her Flabby) just sent me a burned copy of the new Norah Jones cd. Currently, I'm listening to song number two, so I haven't gotten all the way through it, but...damn. It looks as though her sophomore effort is every bit as her first.
This young woman has in droves what most of the young music performers today don't even understand the meaning of: dignity. Here is a young woman in whom natural beauty abounds. The best thing: She doesn't flaunt it. She doesn't wear the damnable skimpy clothes made famous by B. Spears and C. Aguilera, the latter of the two who had ENORMOUS potential and extreme talent.
Norah's songs are sad yet hopeful, painful yet optimistic. This, to me, is perfect road trip music...something you can just put in and not have to pay all your attention to because it just sets the mood. It puts me in mind of smoky jazz joints, places where you can just sit and listen, or read a book or finish an assignment. Just try to describe her voice without using the word "sultry". I would marry this woman just so she could sing me to sleep at night.
Okay, enough blind praise for now. Though I must say if Norah Jones represents the next step in pop music, I'll gladly renew the subscription I cancelled five years ago.