What do you call a concert that encores with a full minute of yodeling? After experiencing a Ricola-worthy performance at a recent Jewel show in New Hampshire, some fans are calling it the “worst concert ever”.

Now, some of our readers wouldn’t be shocked to see the words “Jewel” and “Worst Concert Ever” linked together. But most would be surprised that Jewel accomplished this not by playing boring folk-rock or that tune from the razor commercial, but by pulling a full-on Tony Clifton meltdown where she repeatedly insulted her audience. She made fun of fat people. She went on a 10-minute tangent about Zoloft and Paxil. She called all drinkers and smokers sinners. And in an inspired move that should be standard procedure at every future Jewel concert, she commanded the audience to stop staring at her teeth and look at her chest instead.
Yodeling in the encore? That’s the cherry on top of what was probably the most interesting Jewel concert of all time, a show dismissed by her people as an example of tongue-in-cheek humor. Oh really? With this kind of game, someone should have given her a reality show long ago. It’s intuition, really.