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joni mitchell is quitting music. Joni Mitchell Says New Album Will Be Her Last (from billboard.com)
Veteran singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, disgusted with the music business, has said her latest album will also be her last. "These are my last two records," the influential Canadian songstress said of her forthcoming double album "Travelogue," due Nov. 19 via Nonesuch. "I'm quitting after this because the business has made itself so repugnant to me," Mitchell, 59, is quoted as telling the December edition of W magazine. Mitchell, whose eclectic career spans 35 years across folk, rock, and jazz, has been hinting for weeks that she might end the recording career that made her one of the most respected and outspoken artists of her generation. "The willingness to do anything to stay in the news -- that's the formula now," Mitchell told Billboard in September 2001. "But no real artist has the stomach for all that commodification. I'm not ambitious to be a bigger star, and we live in a decadent time when people shrug about misogyny or that there are crooks in power. I can't write songs in this climate. I'm basically phasing out; I'm retiring again. I'm a painter, and I got derailed into this other game, and so I'm going back to my paints." She has refused to do anything to make her music more salable. "What would I do?" she asked in the W magazine interview. "Show my tits? Grab my crotch? Get hair extensions and a choreographer? It's not my world." "Travelogue," a two-disc. 22-track collection, features orchestrated versions of some but not all of Mitchell's best known songs, including "Woodstock," "You Dream Flat Tires," "God Must Be A Boogie Man," and "The Last Time I Saw Richard." As with her 2000 album "Both Sides Now" (Reprise), Vince Mendoza served as arranger and conductor for the project, which also includes appearances by Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. "Both Sides Now" peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart and No. 66 on The Billboard 200. ---npg would give joni some love, you know. so would ani and righteous babe records. i think joni should go independent. but i guess she really has nothing else to prove musically. damn...i'm gonna miss hearing new music from her, no matter how it sounds.--- | |
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vespertine said: Joni Mitchell Says "I'm not ambitious to be a bigger star, and we live in a decadent time when people shrug about misogyny or that there are crooks in power. I can't write songs in this climate. I'm basically phasing out; I'm retiring again. I'm a painter, and I got derailed into this other game, and so I'm going back to my paints."
This is depressing. I would love to see her paintings though. | |
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well I saw a recent of picture of her
and if she sings anything like she looks these days, she SHOULD be retiring . | |
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She sounds great! On her website there are daily new tracks from the new album available. Just like 'Both sides now' and orchestra suits Joni well.
Looks and age shouldn't stop a person from singing (except Micheal Jackson) It didn't stop Frank Sinatra, death did. Erik | |
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? [This message was edited Tue Jun 10 4:15:20 PDT 2003 by IstenSzek] and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: justanotherasshole said: well I saw a recent of picture of her
and if she sings anything like she looks these days, she SHOULD be retiring . That's exactly the kind of thing she is talking about. Why should it matter what she looks like? Besides, there's enough people whom look at Joni and see a more beautiful and honest woman than any of the new & young so called 'stars'. She's got the experience and she writes from that experience which makes her songs something you can take from and use in your own life. There are few other artists whom have been so outspoken and so literary in their music. She made some amazing statements thru it. She spoke to Mingus and did an album with/for him. Damn. And that is just one example. These are the kind of people who have a story to tell and some real "living" to share. That is why her albums are still considered incredible works and classics, 20-30 years since their release. I'm not slamming you for saying what you said or anything, I just wanted to explain how I see the situation... IstenSzek's comment was quite funny actually!!! HOWEVER, it was probably aimed at definitely the wrong person. :I: can understand her reasons and it's gonna B a great loss 2 the world of Real music by a real Musician. Her Legacy will live on, let's just hope it's not through a diabolical Alicia Keys cover. 'dre Tried many flavours - but sooner or later, always go back to the Purple Kool-aid!
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IstenSzek said: These are the kind of people
who have a story to tell and some real "living" to share. I totally agree, and on the surface it seems like people don't appreciate how important this is. A beautiful life and a heart to share it...how rare is that becoming? | |
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