During the holiday season, we often hear Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You”, alongside various loved holiday classics playing in malls and on the radio. However, a nice way to also celebrate the holiday season is to listen to music of an amazing female artist, Norah Jones. She has won nine grammys (Norah Jones.Com) and has recorded six albums with mixtures of soft jazz and piano ballads. Norah’s unique voice carries a gentle, easy tone. Her songs are able to profoundly provoke a variety of emotions.
My first introduction to Norah Jones was listening to her song “Come Away With Me”. Since I am a hopeless romantic, the fantastical aspect of romance that we hear in this song really resonated with me. In Come Away With Me, Norah asks her lover to escape with her into the night into an alternative location. The location Norah envisions is described in the following line of Come Away With Me, . “ And I want to walk with you on a cloudy day fields where the yellow grass grows high.. Where we will kiss on a mountaintop. ” Later in Come Away With Me, we hear: “ And I want to wake up with the rain falling on a tin roof, while I am safe there in your arms”. The combination of these two lines provokes adescription of the romantic experience of a hopeful desire for an ideal relationship.
I was also greatly impacted by this song and the artistry of Norah Jones, as I had the wonderful opportunity to translate Come Away With Me into American Sign Language. I chose to translate this song for my final exam in my American Sign language class as a student at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. As all of you wonderful women go through your day, whether in your cars during your daily commute or just decompressing during this holiday season, I hope you spend five minutes of your day and listen to Norah Jones and understand the beauty and powerful nature of her voice. As the mission of Her Campus in honoring strong women daily, let’s continue by listening , sigining, or watching the wonderful#ladyboss that is Norah Jones in 2019 and for years to come.
Works Cited Norah Jones. “Norah Jones.” Norah Jones, 2018, www.norahjones.com/.