Can someone tell me why I like Jann Arden?

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Damn. I always forget the lack of actual anonymity here...

Something else you might want to know--the Canada tourism commercial with Jann Arden's song "Waiting in Canada" used to make me cry...I once was watching television with some folks and had to leave the room lest I lose it...I'm a giant nerd. I know.

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 13 July 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

I guess I'll have to chalk it up to a weird tick.

― cybele (cybele), Monday, 14 July 2003 20:29 (twenty years ago) link

methinks you may need some serious therapy.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 14 July 2003 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

i'm sorry if that last post was...
insensitive - ah ha haaaaa.
but really, i'm sorry.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 14 July 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link

I once watched a high school Rememberance Day assembly play about a Dad who never had enough time for his little girl and then went away to the war and died. It was set to JA's "I Would Die For You" (?). It almost had me in tears too so she seems to be good at tearjerker background music. I really disliked "Insensitive" though. "Baby you might have some advice to give/On how to be insensitive" just wasn't a good chorus.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps you're right...It's "Waiting in Canada" that really gets me...and for the same types of reasons. Same with "Good Mother." The line "I have a good father and his strength is what makes me cry," is, at the same time, the most cheesy and great thing ever. Especially considering all of the mommy lyrics that come before.

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

Jann Arden's cover of 'To Sir With Love' came on the radio and my mom told me that they played it at her grade eight graduation, the original version. When we heard it together the next time, it was quite a while after, I said, They played this at your grade eight graduation. But I did it again and then I stopped because I didn't want it to be a jokey or something.

She's great on Vicki Gabereau's show. I want them to talk for the full hour, with no commercials. They're so funny and genuine and natural together.

I like 'Insensitive,' I think. The 'How do you' parts and all that. The rest seems okay. Like honest, authentic newer Amanda Marshall stuff or whatever Canadian radio women, the one who started Lilith Fair.

― d k (d k), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 03:26 (twenty years ago) link

sarah mclachlan

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:26 (twenty years ago) link

I adore Jann Arden.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

seventeen years pass...

How do you cool your lips after a summer's kiss?
How do you rid the sweat after the body bliss?

― not up to Aerosmith standards (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

"Insensitive" randomly popped into my head today, so I listened to it on purpose for the first time ever (having heard in on the radio about 5 billion times as a kid in the 90s). It's just a DAMN good song. Any Ardenheads out there with recs for further listening? She's kind of a big deal in Canada, no?

― J. Sam, Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:43 (two years ago) link

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