The observation: the jazzy singer leading a career, the lover wishing the success of her marriage, the mother welcoming her two children in happiness at all times, well, that’s too much. An exhausted Jill Barber had to admit it: cumulate, cumulate, it ends up weighing like a low cumulus ceiling. To the point where the only way out was to write songs to talk about it. Ventilate, ironize, suffer, offer the full range of states: to still exist as a more than appreciated Canadian artist. The jazz mold would have cracked: a return to the folk way of the beginnings was quite naturally appropriate, more direct. Jill Barber sings no less softly, but in Beautiful Life, she walks in the Cheerios. what to be Homemaker in 2023 while continuing to be the Woman of My Own Dreams ? “ All you wanna do is run / cry / hide “, sings the” housewife “who refuses a life summarized with a single goal:” make it through the day “. Jill co-produced the album: one more task, but essential. To belong, everything is there.
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