Serve The Ego

Album: This Way (2001)
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Songfacts®:

  • Jewel wrote this with songwriters Cesar Lemos and Itaal Shur, who told Songfacts: "That resulted from a Warner-Chappel writers camp. She was there, and we started writing some songs together and a lot of cool stuff came out. We sat in a room with a couple of instruments and started to jam. I think that song came from a loop on the Triton. We put that loop on and started playing some quasi-Indian stuff and then the next thing you know, we've got a little bit of groove. One of us comes up with the melody and she says, 'Oh, I've got a good lyric for that.'"
  • This peaked at #1 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

Comments: 2

  • Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnLove the arrangement, Jewel does have a killer vocal range.
  • Angel from Somewhere In, AzThis song ahas an awesome middel eastern groove to it. Awesome vocal range.
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