Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette spoke with Jennifer Love Hewitt about her new album ‘BareNaked’, which she says is not what many would expect to be a teen disposable-pop turf filled album. “I wanted to make a soul/rock record because that’s the kind of stuff I grew up on,” Hewitt said. “I grew up on Janis Joplin, Al Green and Billie Holiday. I knew it was a tougher thing to do, but it made it more exciting. It would’ve been a lot easier and would’ve taken half as much time to let someone else write my songs and to do a pop record. But that’s not what I wanted to do. I wanted to challenge myself.”

The Vancouver Province spoke with Jennifer Love Hewitt during her recent stop in Toronto where the singer promoted her new album ‘BareNaked’. Asked if she planned on touring in support of the album, Jennifer admitted, “I want to know that an audience really wants me to be there,” she says. “But I don’t want to do it if I’m going to get to some stadium and there’s four people . . . That would be depressing.” She admits success in music won’t be easy, despite her established film career. “You just have to work really hard in the music industry because there’s so many people and I’m coming in at a time when there’s 900 other female singer-songwriters exactly my age,” she said.