WHET Norah Jones

She sells a lot of any record she releases......

I think she is exactly where she wants to be.....not in the spotlight but able to make music how and when she wants.

Norah doesn't know why either.

Last I heard she owns a beautiful brownstone in Brooklyn and lives a quiet, happy life.

She wasn't sexy enough - not enough dance remixes or collaborations with rappers.

She collapsed into her own ennui and is now a black hole.

She's been trying to keep up with Howard, Jesus and Jessica.

I think she has a new album coming out

Wonderfully talented but similar to Anita Baker in that her songs all started sounding alike and had the unmistakable air of something you'd hear in Starbucks.

There's a few folks who can do that middle of the road shit and it sells well - Annie Lennox, Norah, Sade, Anita Baker, etc.

Norah's lost a lot of her audience b/c she experiments with her formula, but I doubt she gives a fuck

"Mama sang bass, Daddy played sitar..."

She was in the Sesame Street anniversary special.

Snorah was so fucking boring. Couldn’t stand her.

I call her Snorah too.

I like her songs and her singing but she always puts me to sleep

Her industry nickname was Bore-ah Jones.

Mad TV did the funniest parody of her music. Unfortunately the only version I have found online is shitty quality.

Didn’t she have a kid with some guy that was old enough to be her father? Or am I thinking of someone else?

I always thought it was slightly mindblowing that Ravi Shankar was her father. And I too found her voice and her material pleasant but extremely boring.

She’s boring. Every album more or less sounds like the other. Went to see her live once: completely pointless.

Was she the one who started that style of singing by young women artists? How to describe… soft, infantile, mushing up the conshonantsh. The kind of voice you hear on every other commercial these days.

She won't be IGNORED, Dan!

Sharon Van Etten just released a new version of Seventeen as a duet with Norah:

R19 "Soft and infantile ". Ugh, I know exactly what you're talking about and yes I think she did start it.

Interesting fact: She's the late Indian superstar sitar-ist Ravi Shankar's daughter.

I started it, r22.

R19, she might have popularized it recently, but a lot of female singers did it. Rickie Lee Jones did it in the '70s and I would bet that Norah was heavily influenced by Rickie Lee.

The soft and infantile Miss Rose Murphy...

She whispered, how is that talent?

I saw her live a few years ago in Berlin. She’s too low key to appeal to today’s loud music landscape, but all of her albums have a couple of gems in them.

Here's her pairing up with Dave Grohl from a few years ago in a tribute to Paul McCartney.

She also paired up with Foo Fighters for the track "Virginia Moon".

While her first album was on the mainstream pop charts, she's now considered a jazz artist. Jazz does not get the media attention that Pop gets.

She did a really lovely version of Aretha's Daydreaming.

Hahahahaha

I know of Blossom Dearie, R24, but I could have sworn that was a pic of Tracey Ullman spoofing.

She's in the group of cooing gibberish chanteuses. Snoozey coocoo.

R25, Rickie Lee Jones was NEVER as boring and one-note as Norah.

R34, I thought Rickie Lee was phenomenal, but her vocal stylings, especially the whispering, definitely sounds like it influenced Norah. Cyndi Lauper's True Colors sounded like she was purposely imitating Rickie Lee.

She's got pretty good presence live, but most of her songs are just so boring.

I respect Rickie Lee, though at the time I thought "Chuck E's in Love" was catchy but moronic. Btw, did Chuck E. Cheese plagiarize from her?

I heard a interview with her on my local public radio station last year. Really put me off her. She was borderline rude to the interviewer for no good reason, just came across as really ungrateful for someone who was being given a platform to promote her album to hundreds of thousands of listeners. I think I read a concert review that also said she didn't really interact with the audience and seemed cold.

I don't know much about her. Did she grow up with a sense of superiority being the daughter of? Did he pay much attention to her?

She got mixed up in the wave of India.ari, Erykah Badu, and Michelle N'Degeocello.

Chuck E was about Chuck E. Weiss, a pal of Tom Waits. It was an LA inside joke.

r39. Accordiing to interviews she had a very "distant" relationship with him. She has said she barely even knew him.

Yeah, I think he was basically a deadbeat dad.

me : "Did you see that MadTV skit about Norah Jones?"

coworker : "I'VE FOLLOWED HER FOR HER ENTIRE CAREER!!"

me : "Are you joking?"

I went to school with Ravi's other daughter, Anoushka, the sitarist. Yes, Ravi was essentially a deadbeat dad t Norah, but he and Norah reconciled when she was an adult and ended up having a fairly decent relationship. Anoushka and Norah became quite close.

I heard there’s a third daughter, unacknowledged, in London, who is the real inheritor of Ravi Shankar ‘s talent.

Did Ravi get friendly with Nora before or after she got famous?

R47, they reconciled many years before she got famous

Rickie Lee Jones does a LOT more with her voice than baby whispering. I’m sort of offended that someone would put her anywhere near those female singers. Rickie Lee Jones doesn’t sound pretty or feminine and she gets downright guttural. Oh she can do it (or used to be able to), but she’s on another fucking planet, vocally.

And so had no idea she was Shankar’s daughter.

She knew she was Shankar’s daughter but Shanker has little contact with her mother and her as she grew up

I like her songs on the album Rome.