What a delightful person!

I think the Borat thing is getting old, people..

Her music isn't bad becasue its slow, nor because it's 'crossover' between jazz and pop.

It's bad because it lacks any depth, innovation or soul. She's like a pretty singing bird great at imitating human vocal ranges and faking emotion, but you'd never mistake it for the real thing.

It's not Jazz, nor is it good pop, nor good fusion. It's just derivative. She's basically easy listening.

Nora is the new KennyG.

She will hopefully develop more as the years go by, but early success has way of preventing that.

Her father is Ravi Shankar, and that's the only reason she's made it in the music scene. There are thousands of musicians as or more talented than her, but because they don't have connections will never be successful. It's a shame.

By the way, I find her music to be insipid, bland and overplayed, which is more the fault of the music industry than hers.

Why people spend so much energy communicating their dislike for a certain type of music/artist/movie, etc. There is a wild profusion of choices when it comes to entertainment, and it's virtually guaranteed that any given person won't truly like most of them. So what's the calculus involved in deciding who you're going to spend energy attacking?

There's pleny of music I don't like, but I presume it's just a matter of personal taste.

And, for what it's worth, I think Norah Jones is a fine performer and writer. It ain't Shakespeare, but it's good, and there's nothing wrong with being a bit old-fashioned.

Some of her songs have been quite good, some are nothing special... But even Sinatra and the Beatles tucked some stinkers into their albums.

"Singer Norah Jones is photograph at The Living Room in New York, Jan. 24, 2007."

A small caption shop overseas does these, right?

Anyway, opinions of bitter "failed" musicians aside (I'm one too!) I don't understand the hostility. The first time I heard Jones was on a local jazz radio show and they were playing her cover of Hank Williams' "Cold Cold Heart." It stood out as an innovative interpretation of that song. This was right after the disk came out, and it had nothing to do with her famous father. I went out and bought the CD based on "Cold Cold Heart".

Now, I would have enjoyed Nora a little more if she had remained obscure and I was the only one who knew about her CD, but that's not the way it worked out.

No man or woman is an island. Norah's backup band especially her co-writer, Adam Levy are the greatest. He handed me his CD in the subway and I've been turned on ever since!!.

Q: Who was photograph in the Living Room, Alex?

Well it’s refreshing to see that she’s a well adjusted and intelligent young woman. In a world where Paris Hilton is a celebrity it’s nice to see someone who is successful because she is talented. I personally love her first 2 albums and the live Peter Malick album she is on as well.

As to who or why she got a record contract I couldn’t care less. It what she’s done with her opportunity that speaks volume of her. Its not a zero sum game and not all those unsigned talented musicians aren’t all so “talented”..

With the statement that her music is not "headphone" music--(although I confess to not knowing exactly what that means).

I find her singing quite remarkable. Besides a delightful voice, her unusual "phrasing" remains surprising even after listening to the same song many times. Kinda reminds me of Sinatra in that respect.

very talented and still developing. She's a shining example of how to deal with success. Lay off the lass just because her albums so far have been bland-ish yuppie music. There is so, so much more to come from this stunningly gorgeous woman who doesn't even play up her looks, though she certainly doesn't hide them. Which is a good metaphor for her "famous" father -- she's never played up that connection, merely never denied it. (Confidential to Baby Boomers: very few people under the age of 40 know who the hell Ravi Shankar is, and few people of any age have one of his albums. He's hardly wheeling and dealing in the shimmering towers of Sunset Boulevard. He's "that Indian sitar dude who was at Woodstock, oh, what was his name?! You know, the one who hung out with George Harrison?")

Give this lovely and refreshing young talent a break, you bitter bums. She'll put out one for the ages someday, and when that happens, she won't be all pretentious and precious about it like Joni Fuckin' Mitchell.

Otherwise a new pretend goddess will have to be found to reach self-inflicted climax!

So what if she sucks...she sounds so sexy while saying nothing over polite background music!

So no more picking on her because it ruins the fantasy!

OK?!?!

I've never been awake past "Feelin' the same way." What's the rest of the CD sound like?

No seriously, I'm in love with her.

Slow music is great because it's hard to do well , and she's one of the best to do it in a long time. The idea of 'cerebral' music is valid, but that doesn't mean that is the only valuable music out there. Slow your breathing, lower your heart rate, remember an old girlfriend or imagine a new one. All wonderful things in their turn.

I listen to Norah to calm down after reading most anything about current American politics. Keeps the aneurisms away.

When her first album made it big (almost a year after it was released), I wasn't sure what to think. I went to school with her, and there are a lot of musicians who are just as talented but struggle to pay rent each month. I thought she was a sell-out. But the thing is, she never asked for all that attention. She kind of went into hibernation for a while because, like many other *real* musicians, I don't think she was prepared to be critiqued on such a large scale at such a young age. A lot of us are just having fun, making music, and trying out different sounds. We do something for a while and then get tired of it. Then we try something new. Studying music in a university (especially at a well-established school like North Texas) has the ability to sap the life out of a person, and it's a wonder that so many musicians continue to make music after leaving school, with or without degree in hand. Many of us spend years recovering from the intense school atmosphere--which is filled with criticism, being told the "right" way to perform, and lots of competition--by experimenting with different sounds. That's what Norah is doing. Her solo albums get the most attention because of her name, but she has made a lot of other music in the past few years. It's what musicians do...perform with other musicians. It's about creating music, not just producing records and performing in huge arenas the way mediocre pop "artists" do.

So if you don't like her music, then don't buy it. But she never asked you to buy it if it's not your thing. She's young, and she has a long career ahead of her, like many other musicians who just want to pay rent and have a little spending money by doing what they love. Leave her alone, and go back to your Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Kronos Quartet, or whatever you were listening to before. She'll thank you for it.