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Joni Mitchell Attacks Catholic Church
Fox News ^ | September 24, 2007 | Roger Friedman

Posted on 09/25/2007 7:24:04 AM PDT by NYer

Joni Mitchell is back after nine years, and she’s on the attack. In the title track to her new album, “Shine,” Mitchell takes a nice swipe at the Catholic Church by name.

“Shine on the Catholic Church/And the prisons that it owns,” she sings. “Shine on all the Churches/that love less and less.”

Mitchell was never one to mince words, but in her triumphant return on Starbucks’ Hear Records, she doesn’t give an inch.

In “Shine,” she continues: “Shine on lousy leadership/Licensed to kill/Shine on dying soldiers/In patriotic pain/Shine on mass destruction/In some God's name!”

Mitchell’s album will be something of a revelation to young people who might buy it at Starbucks when it’s released Tuesday if they listen to it and read the lyrics.

Mitchell, the original singer-songwriter, presents herself in stark contrast to the dodo-brained warblers of this generation. She’s cynical and doesn’t mind expressing it.

In my favorite song, “Bad Dreams,” she begins by painting a happy picture: “The cats are in the flower bed/A red hawk rides the sky/I guess I should be happy/Just to be alive...”

But then the other foot falls, and it’s a doozy. When I first heard the next line, I actually laughed out loud. All I could think was, You tell ‘em, Joni:

“But we have poisoned everything/And oblivious to it all/The cell phone zombies babble/Through the shopping malls…”

And that’s just for starters. She observes: “You cannot be trusted/Do you even know you're lying/It's dangerous to kid yourself/You go deaf and dumb and blind.”

Mitchell plays nearly all the instruments on the album herself, and does all the singing. And while the lyrics are harsh indictments of modern culture, Mitchell serves them up with grace and style.

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To: onedoug

She looks mummified...

“You have defiled my TOOOOOOMB! ERRRRGH!”


61 posted on 09/25/2007 1:16:00 PM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: onedoug

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it. Course that’s always been the biggest problem with her features. Looks like a corpse there.


62 posted on 09/25/2007 1:16:24 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: onedoug
Thanks. That looks more like it.

I thought the picture with the article looked about 30 years out of date.

63 posted on 09/25/2007 1:40:33 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: NYer

Few people remember J.M...so by her “controversial” lyrics she has managed to get on the front page and lots of free publicity...

Cynical indeed.


64 posted on 09/25/2007 6:10:30 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: NYer

Yikes! If she keeps singing like this she will be singing in the fire!


65 posted on 09/25/2007 6:18:38 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: onedoug

The Crypt Keeper!


66 posted on 09/25/2007 6:25:34 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, now fighting for freedom, on duty in Iraq.)
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To: NYer

Who’s she singing to?


67 posted on 09/25/2007 6:33:56 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: Greg F
Me too! They swing back and forth between "butterfly and rainbow world" and "rage and ignorance world" very quickly.

Come to think of it, I've got one of those, too.

68 posted on 09/25/2007 6:36:31 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: NYer

What can you say? Pray for her and thank God for the faith that He has given.


69 posted on 09/25/2007 7:01:15 PM PDT by tiki
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To: TaxachusettsMan

“Of course, right after that I called the Catholic League in New York - and they are on the case!”

ROFLOL!!!

Maybe Joni is developing the dreaded shrinking noodle syndrome.


70 posted on 09/25/2007 7:44:09 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: Claud

re “Mitchell dicet”

What a fabulous answer to the lame lyrics. It’s a pity she’ll never see it.


71 posted on 09/26/2007 1:21:16 PM PDT by Daffy
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To: NYer
Shine on self-absorbed woman
for the attention that it brings
You only love yourself
And other worldly things.
72 posted on 09/26/2007 1:33:08 PM PDT by joebuck
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To: NYer

I wrote Starbucks a complaint. Here is the reply:

Thank you for contacting Starbucks Coffee Company.

At Starbucks, we are proud to offer customers a diverse range of music for their enjoyment. Music has always been a part of the coffeehouse culture and is an essential part of the Starbucks heritage and in-store experience.

We understand that our customers have diverse tastes and perspectives. In selecting music, we strive to represent the work of a variety of talented artists who reflect many creative viewpoints. Starbucks is an avid supporter of free speech and the creative process. When considering new projects, our primary goal is always to help our customers discover and acquire quality music.

We value input from our customers and respect their opinions. Starbucks and Hear Music believe our music selections continue our commitment to offering customers a variety of music from a vast array of genres.


73 posted on 09/26/2007 6:30:33 PM PDT by colbuck
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To: Northern Yankee; NYer; Victoria Delsoul; fatima

goes to show that Jerry Brown wasn’t the only one who never exhaled.


74 posted on 09/26/2007 6:47:25 PM PDT by kstewskis (Lord, let me not be deceived.)
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To: kstewskis

(((Hugs)))kstewskis You’re So Vain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B7bVD_DkM4


75 posted on 09/26/2007 7:08:59 PM PDT by fatima (Baby alert,Baby Ava arrived 6-29-07 at 3 PM-she is 10 pounds:))
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To: NYer

Finally late this afternoon a “customer service specialist” called me to apologize for my “hurt feelings.”

I explained that she did not have to apologize for my hurt feelings, but for her corporation’s anti-Catholicism.

“We don’t believe in censoring free speech,” she explained.

I asked when the CDs slamming Judaism and Islam would be coming out.

“We are only making the CDs available,” she continued.

I told her she would have been Hitler’s dream gas-chamber operator during World War II.

This invocation of ancient history confused her - so I asked to talk to whomever is in charge of free-speech at Starbucks.

“That’s James Donald, but he doesn’t take outside calls.”

She completely missed the delicious irony of Starbuck’s Czar of Free Speech not listening to the speech of us benighted Catholic peasants.

Typical phony liberals.


76 posted on 09/26/2007 9:17:53 PM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
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To: fatima

LOL! ***hugs backatcha!***


77 posted on 09/26/2007 10:40:44 PM PDT by kstewskis (Lord, let me not be deceived.)
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To: wideawake

The lyrics for Jim Morrison’s “Love Me Two Times” or T. Rex’s “Mambo Sun” aren’t deep, but they are lyrical...

...one could say the same thing for John’s Gospel...his word stock throughout is sparse and repetitious, but is there anything more lyrical than his prologue to the Gospel...


78 posted on 09/27/2007 5:59:59 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: colbuck
Thank you for writing Starbucks and posting their response.

Starbucks is an avid supporter of free speech and the creative process.

One has to wonder if their interpretation of 'free speech', for example, might include posting a picture of Mohammad on their coffee cups or lids.

79 posted on 09/27/2007 6:47:51 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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