Kurt Loder apologises to Jewel over infamous MTV interview
Jewel for the way he spoke to her in an infamous MTV interview from 1998.During the interview, critic, journalist and TV personality Loder notoriously called Jewel out on her grammar and criticised some of the language she had used in one of her poems.Discussing her then-new poetry collection A Night Without Armor, Jewel was interrupted by Loder, who disagreed with her usage of the word “casualty” in one of the poems. In response at the time, Jewel said: “You’re a smart-ass for pointing that out.”In a new interview with Stereogum this month, Jewel revealed that she was yet to receive an apology of any kind from Loder.“I just remember looking at him and like saying, ‘Fuck you.’ I am uneducated, straight-up. An uneducated kid that was homeless.