Background and Writing
Inspired by the sudden success of scoring a number-one hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart with "Serve the Ego"— the final single from her previous album, This Way — in early November 2002, Jewel decided to make a radical departure from her previous folk-oriented musical efforts and recorded a dance album.
"Intuition" was written and produced by Kilcher and Lester Mendez. It features accordions and dance beats, while she urges listeners to follow their hearts but then taunts, "Sell your sin/Just cash in." In another part of the lyrics, she tries to make sense of her own situation on Intuition: "I'm just a simple girl in a hi-tech digital world... in a world of postmodern fad, what was good now is bad."
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