On “no fun/party,” she rarely deviates from a five-note lick which cradles her lyrics and maintains the song’s pensive undertones. Jackson is a guitarist whose instrument functions not as an appendage to her words, but the very skin that holds her music together. On the title track, Jackson pitches her voice high and childlike, almost as though her philosophical questioning-“Why does the earth give us people to love then take them away from our reach?”-soars toward the heavens. “Don’t you bother me,” she warns her ex-lover on the meditative, breakup ballad “Free,” the deep rumbling of her voice adding a menacing edge. On “no fun/party,” she describes the banality and repetition of finding the one: “It’s hard to have patience when you’re waiting on luck, like a postal truck, like a postal truck…” Jackson also flexes her wide vocal range to drive home the emotions behind her words. Her storytelling is masterful, filled with earnest lyricism and a knack for arresting imagery. Where others might posit that it’s better to have loved and lost, Jackson argues that love is loss. The music is neither sweet nor loving many of the songs are harsh and disorienting, probing and uncomfortable. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love? is an album about love, certainly, but none of its tracks are love songs. On her latest record, the singer-songwriter has both refined her musical capabilities and pushed her existential questions into rockier terrain. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.That love and suffering often go hand in hand is conventional wisdom by now, and one that Jackson herself tackled in her 2019 EP, A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love.
In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explode th question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. "The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet.we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love.
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