she loved the song. she loved the video. she listens to the material before allowing someone to sample her

I hope no one is on here trying to minimize what Joni Mitchell is saying. She's completely right. I mean, really she's a brilliant artist and has been making music for over 40 years. I think she knows about the music business—and music.

And here I thought I was the only person who can enjoy the "art" while not supporting the artist's personal choices.

The Cosby Show is a great program. I think so much of America really want to believe Cosby himself is Dr Huxtable (who would never rape anyone because this is a sitcom—and it's not All in the Family ) .

I forgot to mention that auto tune has added to "the suck". I do remember people who could really just sing: Heart, The Isley Brothers, Patti Labelle, Stephanie Mills, Teddy Pendergrass, the Allman Bros., The Eagles, Prince, the Commodores, Al Green, Switch, Pink Floyd. But fuck, I love White Zombie, Pantera, Black…

I do remember being a tiny kid & the radio was actually more diverse than it is now. For instance, Billy Joel would segue into Rick James, then Journey segues into Van Halen segueing into Michael Jackson. Then, Queen, Jefferson Starship or Aerosmith would come on, & this was all the same station. Joni Mitchell was…

What she's saying without saying it, is that, in her day, the innovation was on the radio. It was there for the finding. No search needed. Now? Everything's a microtrend or you have to be in thrall to Pitchfork or NME or whatever. Or trawling Youtube and making connections. Or waiting for a advertising employee…

I totally agree. The whole "Oh yep by the way, I hear unicorns and things too" is a convenient smokescreen for Sociopath N0. 1 and her little follower.

During an auditory hallucination, Broca's area lights up on fMRI; the patient is literally talking to himself and "hearing" that speech. This is not true of prayer or meditation. The distinction is very significant medically.

Having a mental illness does not excuse actions in the eye of the law. In order to use the defense of insanity the perpetrator must have a mental illness or mental retardation that keeps them from understanding the criminality of their act at the time of the crime. Basically the only psychiatric diagnosis that fits…

If it helps, they didn't kill their victim.

In the 70s and into the early 80s, the vast majority of crappy, mostly-forgotten music was on the AM dial, while Joni has always been an FM kind of gal.

One can be mentally ill and still fit to stand trial. Being incompetent for trial is a very high bar - it basically means that you aren't capable of understanding the proceedings or participating in your own defense.

She may have a point in regards to radio. In her day, there were a lot more AOR stations and live disk jockeys who would play the stuff they liked, especially in the middle of the night when everybody was pretty buzzed. Now radio is more corporate and formulated, so there's less of an opportunity for something truly…

she's right though, Joni Mitchell is so far and away more talented and "real" as a musician than what you get today. Which, with few exceptions, is a marketing/pr firm essentially taking a young hot woman who isn't TERRIBLE at singing and saying "we got this"

Can you imagine a single female musician (heck, or male for that matter) today producing anything that approaches the Joni Mitchell 'Blue' album?

well its not that outlandish that she might hate the stuff on the radio

Which, whoa... Prince Phillip was a stone fox in his day! I feel almost as uncomfortable now as when I realized (at her memorial!) that my grandma was a legendary hottie in university.

I've always thought he looked a lot like Philip.

I still think of him as a little boy, crying for his mom at Diana's funeral. I'm glad he has continued her work with AIDS charity.