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Sad.
It’s easy to be against stuff. So what is she for? Has she got any answers to tough questions? Charm the terrorists with flowers? Against big companies. They provide jobs and she doesn’t have an answer to that other than write songs against everything.
Garbage served with “grace and style” is still garbage.
Oh really? Fits right in if you ask me along with oldtimers like Streisand.
“Shine on the Catholic Church
And the prisons that it owns
Shine on all the Churches
They all love less and less”
WHAT? The Catholic Church owns hospitals, orphanages, AIDS clinics, shelters for battered women, universities, schools, daycare centers, pregnancy crisis centers... but PRISONS?
And it isn’t just Catholicism she hates:
Shine on good humor
Shine on good will
Shine on lousy leadership
Licensed to kill
Shine on dying soldiers
In patriotic pain
Shine on mass destruction
In some God’s name!
“She’s cynical and doesn’t mind expressing it.”
‘Cause you know, cynicism is unknown to modern popular “musicians”, like 50 Cent, 9 Inch Nails, the Sex Pistols, Green Day...
I guess this is the “fair and balanced” part of Fox, cheering on a woman insulting the purposes served by our soldiers, snidely attacking belief in God, and proclaiming her superiority over the mindless masses using telephones in shopping malls. Being a guy that doesn’t much use his cell, I’d lay odds that Joni Mitchell has spent more time talking on cell phones in malls than I have. Her skin, stretched too thin from facelifts, isn’t what I consider the mark of a philosopher or spiritual thinker . . .
The face of Starbucks.
I’m destroying all her music in my possession.
Another commie liberal doing what liberals do. Since I’ve never even considered give $3.00 for a cup of coffee I can’t quit so I guess you coffee aficionados will have to step up to the plate.
Joni looks a little shop worn.
Huh? Catholic church "Licensed to kill?" Catholic church "And the prisons that it owns?" "Shine on dying soldiers..."
WTF? Can someone here please explain to me WTF she is talking about? I don't get it. "Mass destruction?"
100 years from now the Catholic Church will still be standing, and Joni, like most anti-Catholic bigots, will be long forgotten.
Roger Friedman is a publicist’s dream; the ultimate celebrity ass-kisser.
Joni Mitchell will fade away into deep obscurity again soon.
In a related topic, why does this new Garth song suck?
That's unfortunate because it means I don't have any of her records to ceremonially smash....:-)
In the late 1960s - when hard rock and protest music were all the rage - she wrote very quiet, introspective and personal songs, and her "conscious" lyrics were done playfully a la "Big Yellow Taxi."
She went against the grain, but inspired a number of imitators of lesser quality (James Taylor, Jackson Browne, the new Carole King).
Then, when the singer-songwriter movement she helped create really took off, she went in another direction: jazz fusion and avant-garde music.
She collaborated with forward-thinkers like Jaco Pastorius and Charles Mingus.
But now she's just following along with the crowd.
Many people who used to be original, innovative talents (Pete Townshend, Burt Bacharach, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell) are following the lead of ninth-rate hacks like Conor Oberst and putting out cookie-cutter anti-Pope and anti-President songs and albums.
It doesn't make me angry - it makes me kind of sad. It's like watching a spry grandparent who used to be full of clever jokes and interesting stories and who liked to take you traipsing all over town reduced to drooling incoherently in a nursing-home basement watching gameshows.
it may be very unhip and unsophisticated of me to ask this...
what prisons?
Shine on the Catholic Church/And the prisons that it owns
Sed Chesterton respondet:
And if we took the third chance instance, it would be the same; the view that priests darken and embitter the world. I look at the world and simply discover that they don't. Those countries in Europe which are still influenced by priests, are exactly the countries where there is still singing and dancing and coloured dresses and art in the open-air. Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Christianity is the only frame which has preserved the pleasure of Paganism. We might fancy some children playing on the flat grassy top of some tall island in the sea. So long as there was a wall round the cliff's edge they could fling themselves into every frantic game and make the place the noisiest of nurseries. But the walls were knocked down, leaving the naked peril of the precipice. They did not fall over; but when their friends returned to them they were all huddled in terror in the centre of the island; and their song had ceased.