She's 22

Album: Little Broken Hearts (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Little Broken Hearts was reportedly inspired by Norah Jones' break-up with a fiction-writer boyfriend. This soft, melancholy track finds her singing of being dumped for a younger woman.
  • Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, known for his work with Gnarls Barkley, produced the album. Jones was fascinated by his ability to create interesting sounds in the studio. "I recorded ['She's 22'] on acoustic guitar, just me singing, and yet with the effect on the vocal and the effect they put on the guitar, it just sounds eerie and beautiful in a whole other way," Jones said in the album's Spotify commentary. "It just doesn't sound like a girl and an acoustic guitar."

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  • Rich Jones from MidwestGreat song one I can relate to, and I wasn’t happy
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