Norah Jones
Little Broken Hearts

Scott: "Hey Mike, how long have I been on the streets in this crusade?"

Mike: "Ah... I came back to town about three and a half years ago and that's when we met, so it's..."

Scott: "It's been three years Mike!"

Mike: "Yeah, almost four years, it's a long time"

Scott: "What I mean, Mike, is that we're still alive!"

Mike: "Yeah, but that's obvious, don't you think?"

Scott: "Yes, incredibly obvious"

Mike: laughs

Scott: "If they dropped a bomb on this city, you know what we would do?"

Mike: "We'd find shelter..."

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The same cover sees her portrayed as Hannah, the protagonist of the poster for the film Mudhoney (Russ Meyer, 1965), a girl with a sexuality... how should I say... very open.

And you can't say Norah Jones is not sexy and provocative at minute 2.38...

By now, there is not much left of "Blue Note", her free spirit tells her to look for other ways to express herself. Maybe finding herself with an electric guitar on her shoulder and a blonde wig to "hide" her identity (see El Madmo) playing on rather underground stages; or perhaps using, for the realization of the album, the help of one of the coolest and most sought-after producers on the planet, Brian Burton, a.k.a. Danger Mouse, who had already collaborated with her on the "Rome" project (2011).

The obligatory pop single is still there (Happy Pills), of course, the record label can't do without it, but it is in the lyrics that the tormented events of the album are revealed.

It is the pain that leads her to write the tracks of this new record release, the desire to leave behind a great love and a past that weighs like a boulder.

"Beautiful soldiers in their beds

Making love inside their hands

With no chance to defend

Tonight could be their end"

Nothing doing, if it weren't Norah Jones, at this moment in her career, she would be listened to with a completely different spirit, free from preconceptions and boring legacies.