Couldn't have been said any better. Everything you write is beautiful so anything negative out of a critics mouth should be immediately dismissed!

 

..Jason this is so true and so in my book you are ok guy!..
 

They judge you cause they can't do it man. You got it. Time will tell.

 

....Hi Jason,

........Not sure if you're responding to the NY Times review, but I found their article sounding a bit on the nasty side rather than objective reviewing. I'm surprised that the New York Times would publish this tone of article. I think it's unprofessional..... ...... .. ....What's interesting about both Colbie and Ingrid is that they made their careers "outside" of the record company system. One would have to imagine that it's embarrassing to these record companies to be out-sold by Colbie and Ingrid in the same week on iTunes..... ...... .. ...."Bubbly" will always be brilliant in it's genuine and gentle expression. Colbie is not playing to an edgy, youths-in-rebellion audience. Are all young people fighting against the machine these days?.... ...... .. ....As for Ingrid Michaelson, she's just as good and subtle and powerful and poetic, her songs often intimidate me as a writer. I don't think the New York Times "gets" what she's doing. Songs like "Just Breathe"... you have to let the song carry you to the end. The payoff is in the end.....
 

sounds like somebody got a bad review...  no worries man.  no one can please everyone.  but no one can bring you down either if you don't let them.  besides i'm sure you (or colbie if this is about her new album) are getting way more good reviews than bad.  majority rules.
 

Amen, Jason!  It is so much easy to criticize than it is to create.  I would say your doing just fine for a young guy from Iowa City.  In fact, you write some damn beautiful melodies.  Maybe that is why some criticize...trying to push you to your full potential.  Really happy you're listening to Dylan.
 

Just looked up the review to see what this is all about ... #1 Colbie's album is #1 for a reason ... People are quickly tiring of untalented 'artists' running around making music that doesn't even verge on truth.  Colbie's (and your) music is starkly true, honest, and real.  This might intimidate some (as it well should) because the majority of the public would prefer something they can relate to as opposed to something a 19 year old with too much money and an entourage cooked up to impress.  #2 Colbie's (and your) voices are exceptionally beautiful and soothing to the soul.  This is why your thousands of fans flock to catch just one note to brighten their day.  #3  Fans of artists with true talent who don't dabble in psychotic episodes with umbrellas, razor blades, and/or small animals are much more loyal and apt to defend those whose beautiful and soulful albums qualify them as "the least complicated popular musician of the day."  Perhaps the NY Times hit the nail on the head ... after all life is complicated enough ... Least Complicated sounds like a good title for the next #1 album if you ask me. :)
 

Ah #1,  1/2 the people put you on a pedestal to get you high enough to kiss your ass the other 1/2 of the people are trying to knock you off your pedestal and then there's the usual leaches and vultures. ..And yet there's  the dark side of the music business. ....Don't sweat it, comes with the territory. Cant let it get to ya!....DR..
 

word.
 

you are an amazing writer. i read your lyrics often. they are so beautiful and unique. who cares what them hoity toity peeps say!
 

Old Fashioned Letters - you are an inspiration. be happy with yourself!
 

ur awesome

 

i like the way you think
 

........Jason,................
................Your profound ways of expressing yourself reminds me of my favorite poet e.e. cummings (see the poem below)................
................Stay brilliant ;)................
................-Mayuka ................
.................."Forward to an Exhibit: II" (1945)..................
................[Here Cummings constructs an imaginary interview in which he connects his painting with his poetry.]................
................Why do you paint?................For exactly the same reason I breathe.................That’s not an answer.................There isn’t any answer.................How long hasn’t there been any answer?................As long as I can remember.................And how long have you written?................As long as I can remember.................I mean poetry.................So do I.................Tell me, doesn’t your painting interfere with your writing?................Quite the contrary: they love each other dearly.................They’re very different.................Very: one is painting and one is writing.................But your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.................Easy?................Of course--you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.................I never met him.................Who?................Everybody.................Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting?................I am.................Pardon me?................I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.................Not all painting.................No: housepainting is representational.................And what does a housepainter represent?................Ten dollars an hour.................In other words, you don’t want to be serious--................It takes two to be serious.................Well let me see...oh yes, one more question: where will you live after this war is over?................In China; as usual.................China?................Of course.................Wherabouts in China? ................Where a painter is a poet.................
................from E. E. Cummings........
 

Anyone can criticize. It takes real talent to do what you do. =]
 

Jason reeves.. I love ya buddy....i know that was a really bad article and all, but lets go back ten years....did ya ever think you'd see your name in the ny times?  how exciting!!!  no press is bad press...your both beauty and brilliance..sometimes the most simplistic ideals are the most complex for people to grasp.  music is love and emotion...both raw and tender.  to truly be able to have it wash over you is to be granted a gift.  not many people today actually feel music the way its meant to be heard, thus they find themselves numb to its effects.
 

..About punctuation and grammer.. anybody can edit a song or paper!! This reminds me of when I go to school.. I think they should grade upon thoughts and ideas... instead of critizing and grading on punctuation and grammer. Once I decided to publish something and I found an editor to fix my mistakes in grammer. ANYWAYS, I believe ppl should see your work in an overall view as in idea!! SCREW GRAMMER AND PUNCTIONATION RULES!..
 

your words, jason, are a thing of beauty.  you and colbie are two of the greatest singer-songwriters of our generation.  you inspire me just like lennon and dylan have in the past.  keep your spirit in tune to nature and music, j! leave the negative energy aside. sometimes people just don't understand the grace you and colbie have...

 

....You have this kind of inspirational lock and spell on me everytime I read something of yours, its not just the music, you seem to have a good thing of freedom and peacful being to you. Way to stick it to the non freedom and peacful people like the critics :].....
 

Well, sort of. I mean, you have to understand that they do what they do not because they're stuck up but because they're trying to attain the greatest possible understanding of a piece of work. It's no different than being in an english class in high school, and writing a literary analysis, it's how we learn. It's in the nature of life. Our greatest philosophers were criticized, and critiqued, as well as our greatest writers, musicians, artists, etc.

btw, did you hear that Mr. Hanson is retiring after this year? for "undisclosed reasons" and those who know have been asked not to comment.
 

..and dude what makes you any different, like, You don't have to like the literary rules, but are you better because you don't? Obviously there are stuck up critics, but there are good ones too. ..
 

AMen

 

nice Dyaln quote as title