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Keepin’ It Real

May 15, 2008 08:02am Miss Magnolia Total Posts: 1	Hey there, I just waned to give a quick shout out to Jack & anybody else who’s willing to listen. Over the past few months i have read a stack of reviews on ‘Sleep Through The Static’ and the common criticism is that Jack hasn’t branched out and hasn’t taken his music in a new direction etc etc. So i really wanted to say that that such an invalid point to be making. His music should be judged on it’s own accord; not compared to his other records or those created by any other artist. Jack has found a formular that works and one that he is able to create bloody brilliant music through. By critics pushing artists to alter a good thing, it rarely has good repercussions (take The Beautiful Girls as a classic example - they were encouraged by reviewers to try something new, and they may have now become a band that have cracked the mainstream circuit, but they are also one that many of their original fans are ashamed to assocate with) Bottom line: STOP PUSHING JACK TO BECOME SOMETHING HE’S NOT ‘COS WE DIG HIM JUST THE WAY HE IS! :)


May 15, 2008 09:39pm CJ Total Posts: 19	I think that Jack Johnson is a musical genius. He plays with time and words that I have not heard from any other artist. As a mathematician I tend to study his work and I am pleasantly surprised every time I listen to it. Perhaps if you listened with an open mind, you would hear more than you ever thought possible…


May 16, 2008 12:26am CJ Total Posts: 19	It is obvious that you don’t truly value the opinion of another human being by your words alone. By the way, getting high is just a way of eliminating the influence of time on your mind. Jack’s music is all about playing with metaphors and how time is not immutable or immovable but rather a helix that spirals in on itself and, at the same time, rises upwards.


May 16, 2008 02:30am CJ Total Posts: 19	I am relaxed and I take no offense, but I no longer smoke if thats what you mean…


May 16, 2008 11:14pm CJ Total Posts: 19	I think I get it. Personally, hes my favorite artist, but we all have different opinions about what art should be, right? Anyways, I didn’t mean to start a fight, so… peace.


May 17, 2008 09:26pm CJ Total Posts: 19	A discussion doesn’t have to be a fight. But the power of words should never be underestimated.


May 17, 2008 09:26pm Rubber Soul Total Posts: 10	Critics always want you to expand musically. Sometimes this ruins the artist. Music should never be forced and it should be something that naturally happens as you grow as a musician. It tends to work out better that way.


May 18, 2008 02:33am kael03 Total Posts: 8	It is so typical for critics/media to expect an artist to change. Everyone always assumes something bigger and better is around the corner. I say, if it ain’t broke...don’t fix it. Obviously, I don’t know Jack personally, but his music seems to be the perfect extension of his mental rythm. His story-telling through his music is bringing alot of awareness to people that normally cannot take the time or energy to realise, for whatever reasons of their own. I appreciate Jack for the images his music creates in MY mind. I can’t imagine him ever changing, and I truly hope he doesn’t.