Intuition (Jewel song)

Inspired by the sudden success of scoring a number-one single on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Serve the Ego"—the final single from her previous album, This Way—in early November 2002, Jewel decided to make a radical departure from her previous folk-oriented musical efforts and recorded a dance album.{{cite web|last=Slomowicz|first=DJ Ron|title=Jewel – 0304 CD Review|url=http://dancemusic.about.com/cs/reviews/fr/Jewel0304.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140411144613/http://dancemusic.about.com/cs/reviews/fr/Jewel0304.htm|archive-date=April 11, 2014|access-date=March 14, 2012|website=About.com}}{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/0304-mw0000464591 |title=0304 – Jewel |website=AllMusic |access-date=February 19, 2020}}

"Intuition" was written and produced by Kilcher and Lester Mendez. It features accordions and dance beats, while she urges listeners to follow their hearts but then taunts, "Sell your sin/Just cash in."{{cite web |last=Cinquemani |first=Sal |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/jewel-0304/ |title=Review: Jewel, 0304 |website=Slant Magazine |date=June 6, 2003 |access-date=February 19, 2020}} In another part of the lyrics, she tries to make sense of her own situation on Intuition: "I'm just a simple girl in a hi-tech digital world... in a world of postmodern fad, what was good now is bad."{{cite web |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/aug/22/popandrock.shopping5 |title=Jewel: 0304 |work=The Guardian |date=August 22, 2003 |access-date=March 14, 2012}}

The song's usage in a $70 million advertising campaign for Schick razors drew controversy due to the song's message of anti-consumerism.{{cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/advertising/adtrack/2003-08-10-track_x.htm|title=Ads crank up the volume with tunes|last=Howard|first=Theresa|date=August 10, 2003|work=USA Today|access-date=December 23, 2015}} Jewel later noted that the song came about in a "not ideal way" which was "the worst of what the music business is", when her label and her then-management got her involved in the Schick campaign. As part of the deal, Jewel had to write a song titled "Intuition" which was to serve as her first single from 0304, although Schick remarked that the song having the same name as its razor was merely "serendipitous".{{cite web|url=https://slate.com/business/2003/07/jewel-shills-for-schick.html|title=Shilling for Schick|last=Walker|first=Rob|date=July 7, 2003|work=Slate|access-date=February 19, 2020}} Jewel felt that the creation process for the song was "inorganic" and that it was hard to make the song authentic, but that she did not feel like "the song was a sell-out" and that she is proud of the song. Jewel attributed changes in the music business and an overall decline in music sales for the necessity of commercial product sponsoring to have a music video produced.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkcFdiaYHgw|title=Jewel – Intuition on Greatest Hits|via=YouTube|date=February 13, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/ZkcFdiaYHgw|archive-date=December 21, 2021|access-date=December 23, 2015}}{{cbignore}}

The song received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. Todd Burns from Stylus Magazine wrote that the track is "one of the better singles of the year (2003), Jewel's vamps up the scale demand to be imitated whether lovingly or hatefully. Either way, you're singing along, which is exactly the point."{{cite web |last=Burns |first=Todd |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/jewel/0304.htm |title=Jewel – 0304 |website=Stylus Magazine |date=September 1, 2003 |access-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403191047/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/jewel/0304.htm |archive-date=April 3, 2008}}

The final release of the single saw no alteration from the album version. Radio stations, however, did receive a radio edit of the song, only deleting one repeated chorus verse from the ending of the song cutting it down to three minutes and 13 seconds. Commercial singles were released within the US and internationally. In the US there was a CD single and a CD maxi single release, the former contains "Intuition" and "Standing Still" (Live Acoustic Version) while the latter contains club mixes only. The single reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, while topping the Hot Dance Club Play chart for one week.

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The music video for "Intuition", directed by Marc Klasfeld, was filmed on March 26, 2003, mainly in home-video quality but would switch to spoofs of commercials (such as Sprite, Levi's, Nike, and Corona) and female pop stars, with sensationalist images in high quality. The original video was later censored, after a lawsuit by Nike for using the swoosh symbol without permission. In part of the video, a fake TRL ticker-tape reads "Jewel's music sounds much better now that she's dancing!" Jewel noted that the video was supposed to be "ironic and funny", but she felt that the video was misunderstood and that "nobody got it."

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• US CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Intuition|others=Jewel|year=2003|type=US CD single liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|id=88108-2}}

1. "Intuition" – 3:53
2. "Standing Still" (live acoustic version) – 4:56

• US maxi-CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Intuition|others=Jewel|year=2003|type=US maxi-CD single liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|id=88110-2}}

1. "Intuition" (Todd Terry In-House mix) – 5:41
2. "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Hi-Tek Digital mix) – 10:50
3. "Intuition" (Markus Schulz Coldharbor mix) – 10:21
4. "Intuition" (Ford's extended mix) – 7:17
5. "Intuition" (Tee's Freeze mix) – 5:39
6. "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden rhythm club mix) – 8:17
7. "Intuition" (Tee's Kat mix) – 6:10
8. "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Lo-Tek Analog dub) – 10:30
9. Making of "Intuition" music video

• Australian CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Intuition|others=Jewel|year=2003|type=Australian CD single liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|id=7567880872}}

1. "Intuition" (album version)
2. "Intuition" (Gabriel & Dresden Hi-Tek digital mix)
3. "Intuition" (Tee's Kat dub)
4. "Intuition" (Markus Schulz club mix)

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• UK CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Intuition|others=Jewel|year=2003|type=UK CD single liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|id=W619CD, 7567-88193-2}}

1. "Intuition" (album version)
2. "Intuition" (Todd Terry In-House mix)
3. "Intuition" (Ford's radio mix)
4. "Intuition" (Tee's Kat dub)
5. "Intuition" (video)

• European CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Intuition|others=Jewel|year=2003|type=European CD single liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|id=7567-88143-2}}

1. "Intuition" (album version)
2. "Intuition" (Ford's radio mix)

• European maxi-CD single{{cite AV media notes|title=Intuition|others=Jewel|year=2003|type=European maxi-CD single liner notes|publisher=Atlantic Records|id=7567-88142-2}}

1. "Intuition" (album version)
2. "Intuition" (Ford's radio mix)
3. "Intuition" (Tee's Kat dub)
4. "Intuition" (Markus Schulz club mix)

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• List of number-one dance singles of 2003 (U.S.)

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