Taste Test: Esterly honors Jewel with electric revamp of ‘Who Will Save Your Soul’
The pop producer honors the 25th anniversary of Jewel’s classic song.
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Jewel wrote “Who Will Save Your Soul” on a hitchhiking trip that took her through Mexico. She initially never had an intention of recording it; she simply wrote it as an exercise on people seeking something outside of themselves for salvation. She, of course, recorded a version for 1995’s Pieces of You. Now, 25 years later, pop producer and writer Esterly reimagines the folky original into a shocking blast of fireworks, synths erupting mid-air and crunching into the nightmares hellscape in which we now live. With a hip-hop lean, courtesy of Jung Youth, switching between the indelible melody we all know, it ramps up the blistering commentary, and a raw intensity seems to pop and fizz like never before.
“Who Will Save Your Soul” is lifted from Esterly’s new EP, Reset, out everywhere now.
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