{"id":14551,"date":"2011-01-02T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T02:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=14551"},"modified":"2011-01-02T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T03:02:55","slug":"2010-in-music-1-jenny-and-johnny-im-having-fun-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/2010-in-music-1-jenny-and-johnny-im-having-fun-now\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 in Music: #1 Jenny and Johnny &#8211; I&#8217;m Having Fun Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/jenny-and-johnny-banner.jpg\" alt=\"jenny-and-johnny-banner.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">L<\/span>ast year when writing about Neko Case in my post about favorite albums of the year, I mentioned Jenny Lewis and how she&#8217;d certainly be on the list if she&#8217;d had a new album out. Well, this year she does, a duo album with her boyfriend Johnathan Rice, and here it is at the top of my list. Not really surprising for anyone who knows me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me to resist Jenny Lewis anyway, but I have to say that this album manages to be a step up from her solo work &#8211; bringing Johnny in officially (he was a pretty big part of <em>Acid Tongue<\/em>) was a good move, their voices blending and contrasting nicely throughout all the songs.<\/p>\n<p>At first listen, it seems much like the several other beach poppy albums out this year, but after a few listens the lyrics show Jenny&#8217;s signature combination of wit, hope, and ironic unhappiness. Yet despite songs about being broke, in debt, on depression medication, etc., it&#8217;s clear that Jenny and Johnny are having fun now, and she&#8217;s as happy as she&#8217;s ever been. But her depth of understanding that it isn&#8217;t always that way gives the album that something extra that, say, Best Coast&#8217;s <em>Crazy For You<\/em> is missing, and reminds that even though Bethany Cosantino is often compared to Jenny, she still can&#8217;t match her role model&#8217;s lyrical ability.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t any official videos from the album yet, and somehow the duo doesn&#8217;t come across as well on concert videos as they do live, but here are a few of the better ones I could find. The third one is actually not on this album, but a duet they did on Johnathan&#8217;s 2007 solo album. They&#8217;ve been doing it at their shows in a much slower arrangement, and it&#8217;s gorgeous live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\">\n<object width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kqsUGGAASLY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vdIDzA9U-nQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"550\" height=\"437\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QEuPvme7bt4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><OBJECT classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\" id=\"Player_c819952b-0325-438c-b6f7-062d739bc580\"  WIDTH=\"336px\" HEIGHT=\"280px\"> <PARAM NAME=\"movie\" VALUE=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fthecuttinroom-20%2F8014%2Fc819952b-0325-438c-b6f7-062d739bc580&#038;Operation=GetDisplayTemplate\"><PARAM NAME=\"quality\" VALUE=\"high\"><PARAM NAME=\"bgcolor\" VALUE=\"#FFFFFF\"><PARAM NAME=\"allowscriptaccess\" VALUE=\"always\"><\/OBJECT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fthecuttinroom-20%2F8014%2Fc819952b-0325-438c-b6f7-062d739bc580&#038;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.com Widgets<\/A><\/NOSCRIPT><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year when writing about Neko Case in my post about favorite albums of the year, I mentioned Jenny Lewis and how she&#8217;d certainly be on the list if she&#8217;d had a new album out. 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