awesome song......

Unlike some people, I think Michelle is brillent. She was the first of the young, more main stream singer/songwriters. She was before Avril or Vanessa, and never gets the credit she deserves. AYW may not be the most profound thing I've ever heard, but you have to realized she was 17 when The Spirit Room came out and was probably only 16 1/2 when she wrote AYW, so give her a chance and if you didn't like her older stuff, definatly check out her new CD Hotel Paper, it's much more mature, and has songs that are even better then AYW.

best song ever

first i would like to say that people like Mr. Eric Smith be shot for saying that crap about Michelle Branch and her music.

The current pop princesses like Britney Spears who mostly have a sex, dance based theme and who have other people write there own music. Quoting Evanescence from "Everybody's Fool" the princesses think they are"Perfect by nature, icons of self-indulgience" meaning that perfect is what they look like. Michelle doesn't act at all like that, also Michelle writes her own music, then plays them and has more of a relationship theme going on in 'The Spirit Room' which everyone of use can relate to in some way. If you think about it, like Michelle says "and all you wanted is somebody who cares" is what all of use want, someone who cares about us and someone that we can relate too. [...]

Emotional Depth

Below, this song is criticized for its simple, unintellectual nature. I consider myself to be an intellectual, and I am displeased by many recent artists whose work seems to contain little or no substance. However, I do not consider Michelle Branch to be in this category, specifically in the case of this song. "All You Wanted" has an emotional depth to it that the works of other artists appear to lack. As opposed to the works of many other artists, where so-called love songs often degenerate to little more than displays of lust, the speaker in this song has come to know the object of her affection well enough to see his loneliness and insecurity. However, in spite of these problems, the speaker still loves this person, perhaps even more so because of them. The depths of true affection seem to shine through her words. I consider this song to be among the best from today's artists. Five stars.