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GRETCHEN WILSON - All Jacked Up
| StylusMagazine |
| o single Grammy award is more notorious than the trophy for Best New Artist, which tends to have a strike rate of about 50%. The award often presages a fine career for women who win it (Sade, Mariah Carey, Sheryl Crow, and it would appear, Alicia Keys and Norah Jones), but generally isn’t such a hot indicator for men and groups (Marc Cohn, Arrested Development, Hootie & the Blowfish, Christopher Cross). ...full text |
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| Artist direct |
| Gretchen Wilson uses the title of her second album as a euphemism for wasted. "Next thing you know, the bartender's pourin'/Shots a flowin', got me stoned and...." -- the moral of the story is, don't pick fights or start trucks when you're "All Jacked Up." But the phrase is broadly applicable, too. "All jacked up" describes a malfunctioning engine as effectively as the roughshod look of an ill-advised one-night stand....full text |
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| Popmatters |
| Kanye West will doubtless assume that I don't like black people but, for me, Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman" was the definitive American pop phenomenon of last year....full text |
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