Favorite Texts and the genres they come from?

Norah Jones (I've really only heard her fist album, Come Away With Me, so I am basing my thoughts of it): It is very hard to say what her fans would call her. It depends on what type of music her fans like the most. The reason she is so successful is because of her very broad appeal to many different audience types. Basically the only group of people that don't have a chance at liking her would be the guys that are rock/distortion/heavy-esque purists. I suppose the majority of her fans would describe her as pop. Some of her fans may cringe at the word pop, and put her in the genre of jazz to avoid anyone's suspicions that they may like pop music. There is a good element of country in her songs also, and a lot of big country fans would see this element more than anything else, and say she is country. Much like John Mayer's fans, it is safe to say that Norah Jone's fans probably wouldn't get along with each other very well. On the way back from a Norah Jone's concert, one guy may drive away with Billie Holiday or Miles Davis blaring through the speakers, while another drives away with Brad Paisley, and yet another with Kelly Clarkson. When the guy with Billie Holiday on hears Brad Paisley, or Kelly Clarkson, he might be repulsed, and the other two guy's may react the same way to his music.

Critics, trying to remain unbiased toward any genres, would probably have the best shot at nailing her in a genre. But because of this, they might not put her in a certain genre at all, and instead, may say she is a fusion of jazz, and country.

Producers...well it is hard to say. She is signed with Blue Note, which is a jazz record label. So it may be that the producers might be trying to get the jazzers into the loop, while still trying to attract some fans of more main-stream music simply through Jone's fairly catchy melodies. If that was anything close to their strategy, it worked because Jone's has won a few grammy's.

Jone's balances convention and invention quite well. Her use of jazz piano, and jazz chord progressions in a lot of her songs is somewhat unusual within a more poppy style, but her unforgettably sweet voice is the standard mark of a good female pop singer.