tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post1933369322519663640..comments2024-03-16T18:38:04.996-04:00Comments on Critics At Large : Not Mischievous Enough For Me: Jill Barber's Mischievous MoonCritics at Largehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18073851963852030361noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-5805292434911300552016-04-14T14:00:39.411-04:002016-04-14T14:00:39.411-04:00I love this post. I too hate hearing Jill Barber ...I love this post. I too hate hearing Jill Barber on the radio. Now, she's gone and put out a record of Americana covers! Can this woman please just stop copying everything that has already been done just for the sake of money? Why would I want to listen to Jill sing a Neil Young song? Seriously, this is too much. She calls herself an artist when she is basically a karaoke singer who should take her phony act to Vegas. All bells and whistle. Unfortunately the CBC is all over this crap. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-88448083857973109592016-04-01T10:22:06.403-04:002016-04-01T10:22:06.403-04:00Oh I'm so glad I found you! I'm looking at...Oh I'm so glad I found you! I'm looking at the date and thinking maybe this was a 5 year old April fool's joke. Every time Jill Barber gets radio play, my husband has to engage me in deescallation. Her singing reminds me of the desperate children make when their spirits are crushed when they don't get their way. In other words, pathetic. I'm usually I opinionated and kind, but it might only take one more "tell me" to break me. We all could be spared this torture. I've wondered if partner Grant Lawrence is part of the reason we continue to be subject to her. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-28025881075429520712013-05-04T16:43:03.740-04:002013-05-04T16:43:03.740-04:00I hate Jill Barber's music too. I also hate h...I hate Jill Barber's music too. I also hate having to see her boring interview during the trailers whenever I go to the Cineplex theatres. She has no personality whatsoever. I hate how these insipid Canadian "artists" are forced on us when we live here. Those stupid, archaic Canadian content rules are ruining this country. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-36405351384706416942013-01-29T13:40:34.541-05:002013-01-29T13:40:34.541-05:00You are not alone.
She does forced nostalgia...an...You are not alone.<br /><br />She does forced nostalgia...and does it poorly.<br /><br />I went to a Jill Barber concert 2 years ago on the recommendation of a friend. We're still friends but we don't speak of that mistake.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-83294684027482779962012-08-07T16:34:50.285-04:002012-08-07T16:34:50.285-04:00I guess I'm arriving late to the party... just...I guess I'm arriving late to the party... just been re-familiarizing myself with Jill Barber after reading so many good reviews. Thank you for validating my sanity. Musical placidity to the nth degree leaves you with a jouney-less and emotive-less experience. On a side note, I find BookButterfly's inadvertently backhanded compliments freakin' hilarious! She seeks a "diversion from all the pretty voices." LOL... She continues, "but isn’t vanilla the most under-rated flavor? If by "most under-rated," she means "most popular," that would be true. And lastly, she claims that we need this "background music so we can be alone with our thoughts." I prefer silence when trying to be alone with my thoughts, but she draws an interesting parallel between Jill Barber and silence. Nothing against BookButterfly... seems very nice... just one of the funniest reviews I've ever read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-40274416654418342422012-06-22T20:27:50.604-04:002012-06-22T20:27:50.604-04:00I am a Laura, too, and hate Jill Barber's musi...I am a Laura, too, and hate Jill Barber's music. It's very forced... her sound is so obviously manufactured. She seems like a wannabe.<br />Actually, I thought the song on the Dodge commercial was performed by Britney Spears, which should tell you how much it sucks (I'm the person who can always identify the faceless narrators in movies/shows).<br />And, yeah, I don't like Norah Jones either bitches! LOL<br />I think Madeleine Peyroux is the only good one who can pull off the "era" thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-68751056965782213322012-04-03T13:45:48.595-04:002012-04-03T13:45:48.595-04:00hey Laura,
I am anonymous from December 18th....hey Laura,<br /><br /> I am anonymous from December 18th. (most people call me Charlie.)<br />have you listened to any fool can fall in love and took me by surprise again?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-72523239183507854962012-01-11T15:55:04.806-05:002012-01-11T15:55:04.806-05:00Dear Anonymous from December 18th,
Thank you for...Dear Anonymous from December 18th, <br /><br />Thank you for your comments. (In fact thank you to everyone for their comments.)<br /><br />I will give the first two songs another listen. Now that a year has past, perhaps my mind has opened. :-)<br /><br />Warm regards, <br /><br />LauraThe ambitious librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17353406290917613108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-38332732819403443672012-01-10T23:06:25.227-05:002012-01-10T23:06:25.227-05:00Thanks for stating the truth. Too many reviewers ...Thanks for stating the truth. Too many reviewers are afraid to say what they really think. I listened to this cd twice to make sure I didn't miss anything before dropping it off at the local goodwill for some tone deaf bargain hunter to find.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-38656775972634628172011-12-18T12:10:54.580-05:002011-12-18T12:10:54.580-05:00what a very entertaining review. you are hilarious...what a very entertaining review. you are hilarious. sincerely. I mean that.<br /><br />my thoughts on Barber: I'm really picky. most of what I hear by most artists I do not like.<br /><br />2 songs on this album are so awesome, I don't really have words to express such awesome-osity (see, there's the word problem, I had to make one up). any fool....and took me by.......are 2 of the greatest songs ever (of course IMHO).<br />they are expressions of love and joy. energetic and sweet and pretty and whatever..I really like them alot. daydreamin' is ok. a lot of the rest of it is not my cup of tea.<br /><br />Laura, listen to the first 2 songs I mentioned again with an open mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-13638931415444523652011-12-02T13:43:08.746-05:002011-12-02T13:43:08.746-05:00Jill Barber does not sing so much as "bleat&q...Jill Barber does not sing so much as "bleat"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-91397280988125521902011-11-09T15:02:24.640-05:002011-11-09T15:02:24.640-05:00Edith Piaf and Ella Fitzgerald? JB is a good imper...Edith Piaf and Ella Fitzgerald? JB is a good impersonator, but beyond that, her music is lacking any real spirit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-4999583486699098362011-11-09T14:58:11.081-05:002011-11-09T14:58:11.081-05:00I though that For All Time was her best album. The...I though that For All Time was her best album. The songs were genuine, lovely, and strange. But this latest album is absolutely contrived. She's made commercial success her priority. So, the songs are salable--- great for background music--- but simply don't hold their as art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-61290760286249166032011-10-21T10:57:48.221-04:002011-10-21T10:57:48.221-04:00You are definitely not alone Laura! The first time...You are definitely not alone Laura! The first time I heard her on the CBC I thought Sarah Harmer had put out a new record. Now she's taken the same approach with another genre; and as with her earlier albums, it's again trying to copy not create. I grew up listening to my Dad's Billy Holiday Lps and he always spoke of her life and how you could hear that in her music. I feel you can hear Jill's life in her music too, but unfortunately it's just not as interesting as her predecessors...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-47755715396705455922011-04-07T22:49:57.641-04:002011-04-07T22:49:57.641-04:00I'm glad to be reading this. Jill's music ...I'm glad to be reading this. Jill's music is trite to the max. Her new album more than ever. The lyrics are just filler... like she just plugs in every catch phrase associated with that era she's trying to evoke. Plus, all this talk of "timelessness" when she's really pointing to a very specific time and place; one that has been popularly emulated all over the place for years now. But she's not doing it very well. This sounds like elevator music. Her lyrics have always been syrupy, but this new album doesn't even have much of that going for it anymore. She just doesn't ring true! Never has, for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-85999994812794215152011-04-05T21:54:32.037-04:002011-04-05T21:54:32.037-04:00i agree - don't worry, you're not alone. ...i agree - don't worry, you're not alone. fake. forced. fabricated. would rather listen to the real thing from that era.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-85242111552359636282011-04-05T06:59:34.231-04:002011-04-05T06:59:34.231-04:00I have always been a huge Jill Barber fan. She mig...I have always been a huge Jill Barber fan. She might sound like a goat at times; nevertheless it's a much-needed diversion from all the pretty voices coming from pretty faces.<br /><br />JB had a lot to live up to after Chances, and I concur that Mischievous Moon may not have delivered. In JB’s defense, the album is vanilla, but isn’t vanilla the most under-rated flavor? Sometimes we DO just need music to be background music so we can be alone with our thoughts. I think Mischievous Moon is the perfect album to think to.BookButterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15160141163109345818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975416078255909953.post-48227759529092166632011-04-01T13:10:31.091-04:002011-04-01T13:10:31.091-04:00I agree. You're not alone. Jill is just one of...I agree. You're not alone. Jill is just one of many on the Canadian scene whos voice sounds like an artifact already. A lot of pretending taken as the real thing too much nowadays.Boswellnoreply@blogger.com