From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1548 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website:http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Friday, November 1 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 1548 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Katy becoming Joni [Paul Ivice ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 22:39:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Ivice Subject: Re: Katy becoming Joni The arrogance, I fear, is certainly not coming from this gal Katy. Please read some of the comments being made by the listers. On that point, my friend, you are clearly wrong. It is arrogant for Katy to say that she could become like Joni Mitchell as if that were her fallback position. At least that's what it sounded to me like she was saying. Joni followed her own heart, or her muse, to create the kind of music she wanted, not what she thought would be the most popular or sold the most recordings. She made her audience follow her, if they chose to, but she did not follow her audience, which is what pop stars do. To paraphrase Voltaire, I don't like some of the choices Joni made, but I respect the hell out of the reasons she made them. I don't see Katy Perry having those kind of guts. Instead, she seems to be interested in beingpart of the star-maker machinery that pumps out popular songs. I am not criticizing her for that. It is what most people would do. But it does not give her the riht to think she could become like Joni. Paul Ivice ;>) ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #1548 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------