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Hit The Road, Jack: Jordan Fletcher Explains What We Need to Know ‘About Jill’
This week's Makin' Tracks highlights the writing and recording process of Jordan Fletcher's "About Jill."
Jordan Fletcher, in the closing track on his Triple Tigers EP Classic(released Sept. 27), rewrites the centuries-old “Jack and Jill” nursery rhyme with a surprising, modern-day twist. The nursery rhyme gave them an obvious starting point, and they altered the rhyme just enough to change the story’s direction: “Jack and Jill had time to kill.” They make out on a back road, and things develop quickly: by the end of line three, she’s pregnant, he decides he’s “too young for kids,” and he leaves it to “Jill to choose.” It’s a subtle hint that she considered an abortion (they wrote that line three months before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision stripped many women of that choice). Musically, “About Jill” disguises the serious nature of the story, using a light chord progression and breezy tempo, maintained by a strong upstroke, owing in part to Fletcher’s reggae appreciation.
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