Parents need to know that this album might inspire conversations about the power and neediness of love and the importance of maintaining your center and self-respect when starting a relationship.
Positive messages:The subtle "Give it up for love" message in ª Find U" and "Fragile Heart" might be cause for discussion with love-sick teens about self-esteem. "Haunted" might be interpreted as a stalker's anthem-then again, it might not.
Violence:There is a definite anti-violence, anti-war sentiment in "Stand" and "America."
Sex:No explicit sexual imagery, lots of innuendo and suggestion-especially in "Run 2 You," "Leave the Lights On," and ª Become 1."
Consumerism:Celebrity name-dropping in "Intuition" and "America" are the only specific references.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:Except for "Walk down the street 2 a psychedelic beat-I'm a real girl in an unreal world" in "U & Me=Love" there are no references to intoxicants. Although whoever came up with the idea of using "U" for "you,ª" for "to," etc. in the liner notes might have been on drugs at the time.
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This CD is good but way different from anything Jewel usually does. I remember one of the songs kind of freaked me out(when I was 11) because it was from a stalkers point of view and the music was kind of freaky(" I will get you in the night")-that sort of stuff.
stand is a good song about how the world is today. the only song parents need to look at is "America" uses the word "f--king" once and makes fun of celebrities even though the celebrities it makes fun of deserve to be made fun of