Search - Jet :: Look What You've Done

A Beautiful Piece Of Work.

Mr. Fellini | El Paso, Texas United States | 01/25/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's pretty obvious from the first few notes of "Look What You've Done" that Jet pretty much ripped this song off The Beatles. But is it a bad thing? Not really because it still sounds vastly superior to most of the new metal, new Punk crap on the radio. This is a great ballad done with style and a sense of mood that is suprising from a band that usually let it rip when they hit the stage (check out their concert DVD for the full ferocity). The piano part and vocals are obvious nods to the great John Lennon, this is on purpose considering Jet claimed in a Rolling Stone interview that they never listened to anything released after 1981. Nic Cester usually roars like Iggy Pop on steroids but here lets it croon with gusto. "Look What You've Done" stands out, it's like a trip back in time and the funny thing is, many of today's kids who like these guys but disregard the classics as "old" will be lured into a Beatlesque trap without even knowing it."

Jaw-droppingly...

Starwhisper | New Bern, NC | 03/07/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"...Lennonesque. I mean, if you took every Lennon song written post-1964, compressed them into a pill, and swallowed the pill, you'd regurgitate this song.



I'm an old f-rt and all I listened to from 1974 to the early 1980s was Beatles music, band and solo, so it's kind of in my DNA code at this point.



Having said that, it's a good song. How could it not be? It's channeled straight from Lennon. I like Jet and all the songs from them I've heard so far: fun music, high energy (except this one), memorable, and best of all, it's not the least bit whiny. Except this song, which is only whiny because some of Lennon's music was whiny, too (but in a good way)."

Weak lyrics but thick mood make for a total Beatles experien

Lawrence Brown | HOUSTON, TX United States | 04/04/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I'm here because this song sounds like the Beatles. That got the attention of my 40+ year old ears.



I read the lyrics on the web and they're weak. The first line about the picture won't sing for you is clever, after that there's hardly any other content. There are only six lines in the entire lyric...that's lightweight even by Paul McCartney standards. Even the popularly lampooned "Someone's knocking at the door" has more lyrics than that. The lines other than the first lines and the chorus line don't make a lot of sense, in other words, they're cryptic. We have no idea how she made a fool of everyone, or why, or who "everyone" is. If all that's left has gone away, then it isn't left anymore, is it? Conversely, if it's left, then it hasn't gone away, so that line is non-sense. The singer lectures his ex-lover that making a fool of everyone is fun until she loses what she had won, but something tells me that she doesn't care that she lost it, actually she didn't lose it but rather threw it in the trash because it wasn't valuable to her, so that line is also non-sensical. The 2nd verse is more of the same quasi-profound sounding non-sense. Unlike Lennon and Lewis Carroll, however, these non-sensical verses do not add up to profound word imagery, so they're just useless drivel. The lyric also doesn't tell any complete intelligible story, there are no vibrant characters, and other than the "sing" there's no clever wordplay.



So the lyric is vapid, except for one clever line and an overall sense of loss and the "fool of everyone" sound bite, which will be the only thing most people will remember.



However, the mood and sound of the song are great. It's so strange that the moody, swirling, heady sound that the Beatles invented and made popular appears to be universally useful. Something about that sound is appealing and triggers a strong emotional response in people. I take that as confirmation of the Beatles and George Martin's genius, that they invented that, found that, perfected that, and gave it to the world.



The fact that Jet can get so much attention with a copy of that sound only further validates the hard work and results of the Beatles. It does not, however, say much about the talent of Jet, other than that they are savvy enough to recognize the value of that sound and use it to their advantage. That isn't saying much: who doesn't recognize the value of the Beatles?



For those reviewers here that focus on the similarity between this song and John Lennon's sound, it's not just a copy of Lennon's style. The drum part is also a carbon-copy of Ringo's Beatles drumming style and sound. Did Lennon ever release vapid lyrics? If not, that would make the lyrics a copy of McCartney's style. So the entire product is a Beatles sound-alike. Now all we need is a soaring, melodic guitar solo and/or tasty lead guitar fills during pauses in the lyric, and we've got the entire package. Oh, it has that? hahahahahaha.....



Overall I'll give the song a B, the Beatles an A+++++++, the lyrics a D, Jet's producer an A, and Jet's talent level a question mark, (based only on this song). See? Forty+ year olds *can* recognize great new music. It just has to sound like the Beatles. Hahahahahahahaha.



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