Jasy Andrews Issue #26

Little Girl (Versailles )

By Anne C. Johnson
Published: December 1st, 2005 | 3:54pm

Proof of how prolific a songwriter Nashville-based Jasy Andrews is is the fact that her debut album also happens to be a double album and only three of the album’s tracks are covers — Bon Jovi’s “I’ll be There for You,” the Tina Turner hit, “Private Dancer,” and Guns and Roses’ “Patience.” The singer claims that the album is “the soundtrack of the world around me” and judging by the number of photographs of the artist in the sleeve of the CD (11) and the number of songs with either ‘I’ or ‘me’ in the title (seven), it’s hard to believe she is seeing much beyond herself at this time in her life.

The album, which Andrews claims is the “product of the last 10 years of my life,” features simple production and frequently highlights the piano on which most of the songs were composed. The artist reflects on a couple — just a couple Å\ of different themes throughout: love and who-am-I-and-what-am-I-doing-with-my-life. Thankfully variety finally comes in the form of the Tori Amos-inspired title track where Andrews actually seems a little pissed off — as opposed to helpless Å\ for a change.

Maybe Andrews has captured a chapter of the “female emotional experience,” but not everyone wishes to recall each and every torturous moment (or listen to some one else going through the experience). Andrews’s classically trained voice is truly quite lovely, but Little Girl is so full of 20-something angst that it can be difficult to bear. Perhaps it’s just not for listeners whose 20s are thankfully behind them.