From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #56 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Tuesday, February 12 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 056 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #222 ["Eaton, Shari" ] Re: She will never, never, never... [Sally ] Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #222 [Catherine McKay ] Re: Piano transcriptions! ["Randy Remote" ] Re: She will never, never, never... [Dan Olson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:45:12 -0800 From: "Eaton, Shari" Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #222 Taylor Swift, bringing back tacky.. She's basically turned a celebrity gossip column into a song. Of course the media and cash hungry industry folks love it. On Feb 11, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Catherine McKay wrote: > I didn't watch the Grammies, but did see a tiny blip of Taylor Swift's bizarre > act on the news. Classic case of how overblown the entertainment biz is these > days. So many of them can't sing, but surround them with dancers and effects > and lots of hooplah and maybe no one will notice. > > My problem with people like > Jewel and Cate Blanchett is their age: Jewel is 38 and Cate B is 43. Can they > make either of them look like a 20-year-old Joni? Can they act the part? I'm > sure Cate B could, because, IMO, she can do anything. (But can she sing?) And > then, Jewel can sing and she has also acted, I believe. > > Trying to think of > someone young enough, I wonder if Jennifer Lawrence could do it? She's only 22 > and she's a great actor. > > > > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Mary > Morris >> To: JONIMITCHELL DISCUSSION LIST > >> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:51:54 AM >> Subject: RE: > JMDL Digest V2013 #222 >> >> Mark writes " Can anyone ever imagine Joni > performing in such a ridiculous >> setting?" >> >> Mark, >> >> Couldn't agree with you > more. They could've cranked up the mike volume & she >> still would be weak. It > would be a travesty to put TS next to Joni in any >> context. She C A N ' T S > I N G. If we must cast young, how about Jewel ? >> At least she can sing. I > want Kate Blanchett to play her though.....I mean, >> she played Dylan, right ? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where > the barb wire >> meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:16:56 -0500 From: Sally Subject: Re: She will never, never, never... Hi Mark! I have to agree with that assessment. It's a sad comment on the music "business", right? Because that is what's at the heart of what it's all about anymore...not so much talent as money. I saw her perform that on network TV on New Years Eve and was totally embarrassed that she's music's golden girl of the moment! Omg it is a ditty...why are people so nuts over her? I don't get it. Then you've got really talented people who struggle! Sally in DC joining you in the Bitch Fest Sent from Confunction Junction on my iPhone On Feb 10, 2013, at 11:26 PM, "Mark" wrote: > ...play Joni Mitchell. One hopes. I just saw Taylor Swift a few minutes ago as the opening act of the Grammy Awards show. I thought I was watching 'For the Benefit of Mr. Kite' or something from the Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour'. Or maybe a Rolling Stones concert. And all for some ditty that basically was about its repeated chorus 'We will never, never, never get back together'. For the right song or dream sequence from a movie I suppose the production might have been impressive. But, for me anyway, it was much ado about very little. > > Can anyone ever imagine Joni performing in such a ridiculous setting? > > No. Real talent speaks for itself. > > Mark in Seattle > feeling bitchy tonight ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:09:07 -0800 (PST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2013 #222 I didn't watch the Grammies, but did see a tiny blip of Taylor Swift's bizarre act on the news. Classic case of how overblown the entertainment biz is these days. So many of them can't sing, but surround them with dancers and effects and lots of hooplah and maybe no one will notice. My problem with people like Jewel and Cate Blanchett is their age: Jewel is 38 and Cate B is 43. Can they make either of them look like a 20-year-old Joni? Can they act the part? I'm sure Cate B could, because, IMO, she can do anything. (But can she sing?) And then, Jewel can sing and she has also acted, I believe. Trying to think of someone young enough, I wonder if Jennifer Lawrence could do it? She's only 22 and she's a great actor. >________________________________ > From: Mary Morris >To: JONIMITCHELL DISCUSSION LIST >Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 10:51:54 AM >Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2013 #222 > >Mark writes " Can anyone ever imagine Joni performing in such a ridiculous >setting?" > >Mark, > >Couldn't agree with you more. They could've cranked up the mike volume & she >still would be weak. It would be a travesty to put TS next to Joni in any >context. She C A N ' T S I N G. If we must cast young, how about Jewel ? >At least she can sing. I want Kate Blanchett to play her though.....I mean, >she played Dylan, right ? > > > > > > > > > GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire >meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 13:02:46 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Piano transcriptions! Congrats-that's freakin' awesome !! From: "Dave Blackburn" > FTR piano charts done.check! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:59:25 -0600 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: She will never, never, never... People: I don't understand why everyone feels a need to show their devotion to Joni by speaking ill of Taylor Swift. You may not like her style of music; you may not like her choice of song to perform (if indeed it was her choice); you may not like the way the grammy's has evolved into the freak show that it now is; you may resent the fact that TS is financially successful and has millions of devoted fans; You may think TS has no talent, but you are wrong about that. Maybe TS has not invented an entirely original and unique guitar technique as Joni has. But no one else has either. You may not like her music, but she is way more talented and original than MANY other successful contemporary musicians. She writes her own songs; she produces records; she's what? 22 years old? And she looks exactly like Joni did in 1967. Don't get me wrong - I don't buy her records, and I'm not one of her devoted fans. I'm a jazz enthusiast, and I've had to defend Joni to countless jazz snobs. I respect creativity in all of it's forms, and cannot stand by while everyone unfairly dumps on TS. ~Dan ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2013 #56 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe