Jet Album: «Look What You've Done»

- Customers rating: (4.0 of 5)
- Title:Look What You've Done
- Release date:2004-04-27
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:Wea International
- UPC:075596752725
- 1 Look What You've Doneimg 3:53
- 2 Bruisesimg 2:37
It's pretty obvious from the first few notes of "Look What You've Done" that Jet pretty much ripped this song off The Beatles. But is it a bad thing? Not really because it still sounds vastly superior to most of the new metal, new Punk crap on the radio. This is a great ballad done with style and a sense of mood that is suprising from a band that usually let it rip when they hit the stage (check out their concert DVD for the full ferocity). The piano part and vocals are obvious nods to the great John Lennon, this is on purpose considering Jet claimed in a Rolling Stone interview that they never listened to anything released after 1981. Nic Cester usually roars like Iggy Pop on steroids but here lets it croon with gusto. "Look What You've Done" stands out, it's like a trip back in time and the funny thing is, many of today's kids who like these guys but disregard the classics as "old" will be lured into a Beatlesque trap without even knowing it.
I'm here because this song sounds like the Beatles. That got the attention of my 40+ year old ears.
I read the lyrics on the web and they're weak. The first line about the picture won't sing for you is clever, after that there's hardly any other content. There are only six lines in the entire lyric...that's lightweight even by Paul McCartney standards. Even the popularly lampooned "Someone's knocking at the door" has more lyrics than that. The lines other than the first lines and the chorus line don't make a lot of sense, in other words, they're cryptic. We have no idea how she made a fool of everyone, or why, or who "everyone" is. If all that's left has gone away, then it isn't left anymore, is it? Conversely, if it's left, then it hasn't gone away, so that line is non-sense. The singer lectures his ex-lover that making a fool of everyone is fun until she loses what she had won, but something tells me that she doesn't care that she lost it, actually she didn't lose it but rather threw it in the trash because it wasn't valuable to her, so that line is also non-sensical. The 2nd verse is more of the same quasi-profound sounding non-sense. Unlike Lennon and Lewis Carroll, however, these non-sensical verses do not add up to profound word imagery, so they're just useless drivel. The lyric also doesn't tell any complete intelligible story, there are no vibrant characters, and other than the "sing" there's no clever wordplay.
So the lyric is vapid, except for one clever line and an overall sense of loss and the "fool of everyone" sound bite, which will be the only thing most people will remember.
However, the mood and sound of the song are great. It's so strange that the moody, swirling, heady sound that the Beatles invented and made popular appears to be universally useful. Something about that sound is appealing and triggers a strong emotional response in people. I take that as confirmation of the Beatles and George Martin's genius, that they invented that, found that, perfected that, and gave it to the world.
The fact that Jet can get so much attention with a copy of that sound only further validates the hard work and results of the Beatles. It does not, however, say much about the talent of Jet, other than that they are savvy enough to recognize the value of that sound and use it to their advantage. That isn't saying much: who doesn't recognize the value of the Beatles?
For those reviewers here that focus on the similarity between this song and John Lennon's sound, it's not just a copy of Lennon's style. The drum part is also a carbon-copy of Ringo's Beatles drumming style and sound. Did Lennon ever release vapid lyrics? If not, that would make the lyrics a copy of McCartney's style. So the entire product is a Beatles sound-alike. Now all we need is a soaring, melodic guitar solo and/or tasty lead guitar fills during pauses in the lyric, and we've got the entire package. Oh, it has that? hahahahahaha.....
Overall I'll give the song a B, the Beatles an A+++++++, the lyrics a D, Jet's producer an A, and Jet's talent level a question mark, (based only on this song). See? Forty+ year olds *can* recognize great new music. It just has to sound like the Beatles. Hahahahahahahaha.
Think Lennon. think mellow. think of falling in love with a girl and then losing her. Think of a song that brings out meaning only when you sing along to it.
This is as good as it gets! Look what you have done is a hit. just like rollover dj and do you wanna be my girl. This cd is pretty good. Just like their others they play it as it is. Not many bands can pull it off and this is it!
Buy this and i also recommend get born! okay?
They are better then most bands ( like simple plan...those little boys with smaller dreams..like some backstreet boys...or even train.)
they got it and so u buy it! cause even though they are no beauty queens they have the voices,talent,and my vote for something i guess you would say.

