Chances are you were born during the 90s, and that means you missed out on heaps of great shit like grunge fashion and Dr Scholls clogs. But, if you were born in the middle/early half you still got to experience the true music artist of our time – Jennifer Love Hewitt. Even if you were like five years old when her tunes dropped.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt shot to fame playing someone’s girlfriend on Party Of Five. That show was quite literally terrible (a bunch of kids parents die and they have to raise their younger siblings) but JLH became a teen queen, scoring film roles like Heartbreakers (so fucking good) and I Know What You Did Last Summer, a film about running someone over and leaving them to die on the road, then getting pissy when they come back to murder your ass with a meat hook.
Another highlight from I Know What You Did Last Summer was the sequel’s soundtrack – which featured Jennifer Love Hewitt’s first hit, and her best track ever, ‘How Do I Deal’.
Please watch the iconic music video above and note the shots of teenagers screaming as Meat Hook Guy tries to murder them, teamed with lyrics like “every day I wake up to another day gone by / nothing but the open road and the never-ending wide”. Just stunning stuff.
This was the start of a lucrative – albeit short – music-slashie career for our Jen. She had made albums in the past, but it took ‘How Do I Deal’ for her to crack the big time. She continued making films, but also had a couple of hits from her album Barenaked like my second favourite tune, ‘Can I Go Now’.
In this video Jennifer Love Hewitt seems to be channelling Ashlee Simpson with her faux-emo eyeliner, just delightful bullshit you guys. Her rock phase, clearly.
Can we discuss those ridiculously low-waisted jeans? Christ how did we wear that shit?
There’s also the titular track:
LONG USELESS SCARVES WITH TANK TOPS.
Also that one’s got the TRULY ICONIC line of ‘when you use a pick up line / but you just suck’.
Interestingly JLH did better with her music on the Oz charts than America – Can I Go Now for example didn’t chart in the States but made it to #12 here. Clearly, we saw the brilliance in Jennifer Love Hewitt and her OWN PEOPLE didn’t. She’s clearly Our Jen, isn’t she.
Anyway, there’s other songs but I don’t care for them, and this is my story so I do what I want! I’ll only educate you on the above three JLH tracks and that is it.
