Review-Jewel-Lullaby

Jewel's latest release entitled "Lullaby" is an album of children's lullabies released appropriately enough on Fisher-Price records. It would seem appropriate that she make a children's album since my single biggest ongoing criticism of Jewel has been the fact that she sings like a child. This was endearing and suited the material well when she was recording "Pieces of You" as a child herself.
Unfortunately in spite of recording more adult-level material, Jewel has resisted the urge to sing like a grown up and her faux emotional over-singing gets more ridiculous as time goes on...starting with the incredibly tedious "Spirit" and continuing progressively downhill from there. Lullaby unfortunately does not reverse the trend. The album is laden with typical Jewel arrangements with nothing standing out in any way. It all sort of blends together into a study in tedium.

Jewel-Lullaby 1 star out of five. Don't go near this one with a ten foot pole.