From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #1550 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 1550 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Katy becoming Joni [Corey Blake ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:03:59 -0700 From: Corey Blake Subject: Re: Katy becoming Joni Joni Mitchell is being held in high regard and we're angry about this? Am I understanding this right? I really fail to see what is so offensive about a current pop star wanting to shift gears and emulate Joni Mitchell at some point. You have to do some serious justification gymnastics to come out the other side of her statement with "how dare she?!". She never said it would be easy. She never said she'd be good at it. She never said it was a fall back. She really said very little about it other than she'd like to one day be more like Joni Mitchell. Anything after that is pure assumption and speculation with a lot of projection. I'd much rather young pop stars say they want to one day have a career more like Joni Mitchell instead of, say, Madonna or Elvira. I'm also curious: When are rights granted for making a career change? Is it quarterly? Annually? Is there a panel one must appear before to submit one's case? On Nov 1, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Paul Ivice wrote: > 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 #1550 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------