Intuition (Jewel song)
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"Intuition" is a song by American pop
singer–songwriter Jewel
from her fourth studio album, 0304 (2003). Written and produced by Jewel and Lester Mendez
, the track was released as the album's lead single
in May 2003. Following the club success of "Serve the Ego
", Jewel moved to a more pop-oriented sound with the release of "Intuition". The song, which strays from her usual folk
style with simple acoustic guitar
instrumentation, starts off with a French accordion
and then experiments with dance
-oriented beats with subtle urban
influences, using synthesizer
s. The song achieved moderate success in the United States, reaching number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100
. However, a number of Jewel's fans criticized her for abandoning her traditional folk style in exchange for a new pop sound. After the song was licensed to promote Schick
Intuition razors, Jewel was accused of "writing a song that tells us all to resist the total marketing mentality... and then licensing that song to a consumer products company for a huge sales campaign."
Despite the switch of sound style, the song is lyrically similar to her previous work. It has a number of references to popular culture
, including mentioning celebrities such as pop star Jennifer Lopez
, model Kate Moss
, actor Charlie Sheen
, magazines, film culture, and commercialism
.
and a CD maxi single
release, the former contains "Intuition" and "Standing Still" (Live Acoustic Version) while the latter contains club mixes only. The single reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, but hit number one on the Billboard
Hot Dance Club Play
for one week.
, directed by Marc Klasfeld
, was filmed mainly in low quality, but would switch to spoofs of commercials (such as Sprite
, Levi's
, Nike
, and Corona
) and female pop stars, with sensationalist images in high quality. The original video was later censored, after a lawsuit by Nike for using the swoosh
symbol without permission.
U.S. CD maxi single
European CD single
European CD maxi single
UK CD single
Australian CD single
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer–songwriter Jewel
Jewel (singer)
Jewel Kilcher , professionally known as Jewel, is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet...
from her fourth studio album, 0304 (2003). Written and produced by Jewel and Lester Mendez
Lester Mendez
Lester Mendez is an American record producer and songwriter. His production/writing credits include a multitude of successful hits including Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes" and "La Tortura", Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair", and Nelly Furtado's "Te Busqué".Mendez worked with Carlos Santana...
, the track was released as the album's lead single
Lead single
A lead single is usually the first single released by a musician or a band before the release of its home album.During the era of the grammophone record, all music arrived in the marketplace as what is now termed a single, one potential hit song backed by an additional song of generally less...
in May 2003. Following the club success of "Serve the Ego
Serve the Ego
"Serve the Ego" was the fourth single taken from Jewel's album This Way. However, unlike previous singles released by Jewel, this single embarked new territory for the artist and a new fan base. By the time Jewel's third LP was released she stated that she had been getting into the club scene of LA...
", Jewel moved to a more pop-oriented sound with the release of "Intuition". The song, which strays from her usual folk
Traditional music
Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...
style with simple acoustic guitar
Steel-string acoustic guitar
A steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar descended from the classical guitar, but strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound...
instrumentation, starts off with a French accordion
Accordion
The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
and then experiments with dance
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...
-oriented beats with subtle urban
Urban contemporary
Urban contemporary is a music radio format. The term was coined by the late New York DJ Frankie Crocker in the mid 1970s. Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop/rap, contemporary R&B, pop, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass and Caribbean music...
influences, using synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
s. The song achieved moderate success in the United States, reaching number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
. However, a number of Jewel's fans criticized her for abandoning her traditional folk style in exchange for a new pop sound. After the song was licensed to promote Schick
Schick (razors)
Schick is a brand of safety razors by Wilkinson Sword, a subsidiary of Energizer Holdings. It was founded in 1926 by Jacob Schick as the Magazine Repeating Razor Company. In 1934, Schick introduced its highly successful single blade safety razor system, that stored ten blades in a steel injector...
Intuition razors, Jewel was accused of "writing a song that tells us all to resist the total marketing mentality... and then licensing that song to a consumer products company for a huge sales campaign."
Despite the switch of sound style, the song is lyrically similar to her previous work. It has a number of references to popular culture
Popular culture
Popular culture is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the...
, including mentioning celebrities such as pop star Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, television personality, and fashion designer. Lopez began her career as a dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color. Subsequently venturing into acting, she gained recognition in the 1995 action-thriller...
, model Kate Moss
Kate Moss
Kate Moss is an English model. Moss is known for her waifish figure and popularising the heroin chic look in the 1990s. She is also known for her controversial private life, high profile relationships, party lifestyle, and drug use. Moss changed the look of modelling and started a global debate on...
, actor Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estevez , better known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American film and television actor. He is the youngest son of actor Martin Sheen....
, magazines, film culture, and commercialism
Commercialism
Commercialism, in its original meaning, is the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of commerce or business. Today, however, it primarily refers to the tendency within open-market capitalism to turn everything into objects, images, and services sold for the purpose of generating profit...
.
Single information
The final release of the single saw no alteration from the album version. Radio stations however did receive a radio edit of the song, only deleting one repeated chorus verse from the ending of the song cutting it down to three minutes and 13 seconds. Commercial singles were released within the U.S. and internationally. In the U.S. there was a CD singleCD single
A CD single is a music single in the form of a standard size Compact Disc, not to be confused with the 3-inch CD single, which uses a smaller form factor. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s, but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s...
and a CD maxi single
Maxi single
A maxi single or maxi-single is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an a-side song and a b-side song.-The first maxi singles:...
release, the former contains "Intuition" and "Standing Still" (Live Acoustic Version) while the latter contains club mixes only. The single reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, but hit number one on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
for one week.
Music video
The song's music videoMusic video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
, directed by Marc Klasfeld
Marc Klasfeld
Marc Klasfeld is an American music video director. He has directed over two hundred music videos for artists such as Katy Perry, Jay-Z, Kid Rock, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nelly, Foo Fighters, Jewel, Sum 41, Avril Lavigne and many others with multiple MTV award wins and nominations...
, was filmed mainly in low quality, but would switch to spoofs of commercials (such as Sprite
Sprite (soft drink)
Sprite is a transparent, lemon-lime flavored , caffeine free soft drink, produced by the Coca-Cola Company. It was introduced in the United States in 1961. This was Coke's response to the popularity of 7 Up, which had begun as "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" in 1929...
, Levi's
Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co. is a privately held American clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, to San Francisco, California to open a west coast branch of his brothers' New York dry goods business...
, Nike
Nike, Inc.
Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...
, and Corona
Corona (beer)
Corona Extra, better known as Corona and labeled as Coronita in Spain, is a brand of pale lager owned and produced by Cerveceria Modelo at a number of breweries in Mexico. It is one of the best-selling beers in Mexico and is one of the top-selling beers worldwide...
) and female pop stars, with sensationalist images in high quality. The original video was later censored, after a lawsuit by Nike for using the swoosh
Swoosh
Swoosh is the symbol of the athletic shoe and clothing manufacturer Nike. It is among the most easily recognized brand logos in the world.-History:...
symbol without permission.
Track listings and formats
U.S. CD single- "Intuition" – 3:49
- "Standing StillStanding Still"Standing Still" is a song by female American artist Jewel. Recorded in 2001, this song is featured on the album This Way. The single charted best in New Zealand, where it reached number seven. It also charted in the United States at number 25....
" (Live Acoustic Version) – 4:56
U.S. CD maxi single
- "Intuition" (Todd TerryTodd TerryTodd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....
In-House Mix) – 5:41 - "Intuition" (Gabriel & DresdenGabriel & DresdenGabriel & Dresden is the project name of the DJs and producers Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden from San Francisco. Their popularity and activities were centered in the United States. They won the WMC award as Best American DJ twice in 2007 and 2008, the same day the group split-up...
Hi-Tek Digital Mix) – 10:50 - "Intuition" (Markus SchulzMarkus SchulzMarkus Schulz, born , is a German trance music DJ and producer who resides in Miami, Florida, USA. He is best-known for his weekly radio show titled Global DJ Broadcast that airs on Digitally Imported radio, After Hours FM and other online stations...
Coldharbor Mix) – 10:21 - "Intuition" (Ford's Extended Mix) – 7:17
- "Intuition" (Tee's Freeze Mix) – 5:39
- "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Rhythm Club Mix) – 8:17
- "Intuition" (Tee's Kat Mix) – 6:10
- "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Lo-Tek Analog Dub) – 10:30
- Making of "Intuition" Music Video
European CD single
- "Intuition" (Album Version) – 3:49
- "Intuition" (Ford's Radio Mix) – 4:17
European CD maxi single
- "Intuition" (Album Version) – 3:49
- "Intuition" (Ford's Radio Mix) – 4:17
- "Intuition" (Tee's Kat Dub) – 6:46
- "Intuition" (Markus Schulz Club Mix) – 6:45
UK CD single
- Intuition" (Album Version)
- Intuition" (Todd Terry In-House Mix) – 5:41
- Intuition" (Ford's Radio Mix) – 4:17
- Intuition" (Tee's Kat Dub) – 6:46
- Intuition" (Video)
Australian CD single
- Intuition" (Album Version) – 3:49
- Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Hi-Tek Digital Mix) – 10:47
- Intuition" (Tee's Kat Dub) – 6:10
- Intuition" (Markus Schulz Club Mix) – 6:46
Remixes
- "Intuition" (Todd TerryTodd TerryTodd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....
In-House Mix) - "Intuition" (Todd Terry In-House Edit)
- "Intuition" (Gabriel & DresdenGabriel & DresdenGabriel & Dresden is the project name of the DJs and producers Josh Gabriel and Dave Dresden from San Francisco. Their popularity and activities were centered in the United States. They won the WMC award as Best American DJ twice in 2007 and 2008, the same day the group split-up...
Hi-Tek Digital Mix) - "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Lo-Tek Analog Dub)
- "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Rhythm Club Mix)
- "Intuition" (Markus SchulzMarkus SchulzMarkus Schulz, born , is a German trance music DJ and producer who resides in Miami, Florida, USA. He is best-known for his weekly radio show titled Global DJ Broadcast that airs on Digitally Imported radio, After Hours FM and other online stations...
Club Mix) - "Intuition" (Markus Schulz Coldharbor Mix)
- "Intuition" (Markus Schulz Radio Edit)
- "Intuition" (Ford's Extended Mix)
- "Intuition" (Ford's Radio Mix)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Freeze Mix)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Freeze Mixshow)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Kat Mix)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Kat Dub)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Rub-A-Dub)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Deep Dub)
- "Intuition" (Tee's Dub Mix)
- "Intuition" (Hot Tracks Mix)
Charts
| Chart (2003) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Canadian Singles Chart Canadian Singles Chart The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays.... |
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