Word: surfers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barely employed, she became a surfer girl, writing songs on the beach, including the future hit Who Will Save Your Soul? She wrote many of the songs on Pieces of You during that difficult period. And yet, while they recognize that reality bites, the lyrics are surprisingly optimistic. Jewel explains, "It's so easy to feel alone and to feel like you're the only one going through whatever you're going through. You feel very isolated in it--especially when you're young, when you're around 18. When I was that age, I was amazed and so thankful...
...SECRET SURFER...
...years ago--on July 2, 1922, to be precise--that pioneer Ralph Samuelson strapped on the first pair of water skis on Lake Pipen in Minnesota. In 1985 a surfer aptly named Tony Finn developed a hybrid between a water ski and a surfboard called the Skurfer. But that skiboard was so narrow and buoyant that only the most experienced skiers could work it. Before skiboarding sank like a stone, water-ski manufacturer Herb O'Brien came up with the Hyperlite, a carbon-graphite board of neutral buoyancy with large dimples on the bottom (phasers, to those in the know...
...result sounds a bit like a Broadway show, but one composed by a pop-culture channel surfer on uppers. Jackie is a sweet-toned lyric soprano; Ari, a bass-baritone, is a smarmy lounge lizard (one of his big arias is marked in the score, "Freely sung, a la Dean Martin"). The music they sing jumps joltingly from folk rock to Motown to big-band jazz, all kaleidoscopically orchestrated for a 19-piece pit band with two percussionists. And although the tone is mostly light and lively, an unexpectedly affecting streak of melancholy surfaces whenever Jackie sings of her lost...
...America that had been "Sally Jessed" and "Geraldoed" adnauseam only needed a nudge from a football player-turned-B-movie-actor-turned-B-murderer to go completely nuts. Every pathetic character in the long and sundry march toward the first verdict was vaulted into international fame. The ridiculous "surfer dude," the racist cop, the narcissistic judge, the scuzzy defense lawyers and the mutually enamored prosecutors--it was almost too much...