Rolling Stone 报导 http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?afl=mail1&nid=17468 Jewel Gets Weird Singer-songwriting dabbling in new beats on upcoming album Even though Jewel only recently finished touring behind 2001's This Way, the singer has begun recording the follow-up, which she expects will be out in June. "I feel like records usually take too long," she says. "I wanted to do this right away." 虽然 Jewel 刚做完 This Way tour，她已经开始录下一张专辑了， 预计六月发行；她觉得专辑通常拖太久，她现在就想录新歌 Jewel's sense of urgency comes from her interest in tackling timely subjects. Among the names checked in the new batch of songs: Pete Townshend, Roman Polanski, Jennifer Lopez and Charlie Sheen. "There's a lot of pop references," Jewel says. "Social commentary has always been a big part of my writing. And I know what I want to say to the world by summer. Beyond that I really can't say where politics is going to be, or culture." Jewel 的急迫感来自她喜欢处理发生在当下的题材，在她新写好 的歌曲中出现的人名就有 Pete Townshend, Roman Polanski, Jennifer Lopez 和 Charlie Sheen。Jewel 说歌曲中跟流行文化 有很多关联，我的歌曲中有很大的一部份是关於社会评论的， 我也知道到了夏天的时候我想对世界说的话，除此之外，我实在 不知道到时候政治或是文化会是啥样子。 Though she says the new album is very "lyric-driven," she promises it will surprise a lot of her longtime fans musically. "This record's a really different record for me," Jewel says. "It's really a weird combination -- part dance, part hip-hop, part folk. It should be a really raw-sounding record. It sounds like me," she assures, "but you'll hear a lot of things in it." 虽然她说新专辑是以歌词是重心所在，她也说旋律上会让很多长年 来支持她的歌迷感到惊讶，Jewel 说这张专辑对她来说是很不同的， 专辑里有嬉哈，舞曲，民谣，是奇异的组合，应该是张不完美的专辑， 听起来就像我，但是你会在专辑里听到很多东西 Jewel attributes the changes to her working with collaborators for the first time. "I'm writing with lots of people and having lots of fun," she says. "I'm not a very good guitar player, so by writing with other musicians, I can get things out that are in my head that I can't do with my hands." Jewel 把这些改变归咎於第一次跟他人合作的结果，我跟很多人 一起写歌玩得很高兴，我吉他弹得不是顶好，跟其他人合作我可以 实现在我脑袋里但是我自己弹不出来的东西。 Her primary collaborator and co-producer is arranger/producer/keyboardist, Lester Mendez, who has worked with Shakira, Enrique Iglesias and Carole King. "He's very, very talented and you'll be hearing a lot about him," Jewel says. 她最主要的合作夥伴是编曲家／制作人／键盘手 Lester Mendez， 之前曾经跟 Shakira, Enrique Iglesias 和 Carole King 合作过， Jewel 说他非常非常的有才华，专辑里有很多她的参与 Jewel, who starred in the 1999 Ang Lee film Ride With the Devil, is also planning a return to the big screen. "I'm producing a film called Waves, and there's a part for me in it," she says. "And I don't think it's signed yet, but I think Goldie Hawn will be making her directorial debut . . . I don't know if I was supposed to say that." 曾经演出李安导演的 Ride With the Devil 的 Jewel 也计划再次 参与电影的演出，”我正在制作一部叫做 Waves 的电影，也会演出 一角，虽然还没签约，但是我想 Goldie Hawn 会首次出任导演， 我不知道我是不是该透漏这个消息... ” --

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