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''Goodbye Alice in Wonderland'' is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Jewel, released on May 2, 2006, through Atlantic Records. The album marks a return to her musical roots after ''0304'', and trying to write an autobiographical album like she did with ''Pieces of You''. The album was written in the form of a novel with each track representing a chapter.〔Booklet ''Goodbye Alice in Wonderland'', page 17〕 Although the first official single was "Again & Again", the title track "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland" debuted a month earlier on her website as an Internet exclusive. The second single, "Good Day" was released to radio in late June 2006. The next single was "Stephenville, TX". A video for it can be seen on Yahoo! Launch. The album made its debut at #8 on the ''Billboard'' 200, with sales of 82,000 copies its first week, and became Jewel's fifth top 10 album in the United States. However, after only 12 weeks the album slid out of the ''Billboard'' 200. The album reappeared one week later after heavy promotion on various talk shows. It has sold 377,000 copies in the U.S. as of June 2010.〔 Jewel stated she had plans to re-release the album, but her record company would not let her. However, they did allow her to release two singles in 2007. == Background == After refashioning herself as a dance-pop diva on 2003's ''0304'', which debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, Jewel returned to safe territory with "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland".〔 Like 0304, the album comes with an explanation/apology from its auteur: "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland is the story of my life and is the most autobiographical album I have made since Pieces of You... By the end of the 13th song, if you have listened closely, you will have heard the story of the sirens song that seduced me, of a path I both followed and led, of bizarre twists and turns that opened my eyes, forcing me to find solutions so that discovering the truth would not lead to a loss of hope."〔 According to Allmusic's senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine, assisted by producer Rob Cavallo—who has produced records for Michelle Branch and the Goo Goo Dolls—Jewel has created her most sonically appealing record, one that has plenty of different shades and textures.〔 The record finds the singer-songwriter exploring a number of musical styles—from the country tinge of "Stephenville, TX" and upbeat pop of "Satellite," to the folksy opening one-two punch, "Again and Again" and "Long Slow Slide." "I'm a Gemini," Jewel says to explain her range. "I have a lot of moods." To give her moods a flow, she programmed Alice's thirteen songs—all recorded live—as if the album were a concert. "I start in a certain place," she says, "bring it up into sort of a rock set, and then I come back down."〔 Jewel opted not to renew her contract with Atlantic Records at the end of 2006, and because of this it became official that ''Goodbye Alice in Wonderland'' would be her final studio album of new material with them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Goodbye Alice in Wonderland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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