hi
last week i went to the 40th birthday party of an old friend. hadnt seen him for 13 years. so the talk turned to music, and he still remembered that i loved joni. some of the people said she was great till she became inccessable. (hosl in his opinion) i replied that she was great all along, when she turned inacessable thats when it really started to show :-) then my friend stated in all seriousness that alanis morissette is the joni for the new generation. i didnt want to seem arrogant by reacting the way i wanted to ( hysterical laughter) so i just said i didnt know alanis' music well enough. now i see someone else posted about the little green line being sloppy & said joni's no willy the shake. well after my friends comment the other day, i had been thinking a lot. are we just being arrogant? is joni the voice of a generation, and if so, who is the new generations voice? i couldnt pin joni into a generation. shes just too timeless, too universal. so i came to the conclusion that she is the voice of an age ( tho i really cant define age ). along the lines of willy the shake. people will be looking at, analysing, and treating her writings and music with the respect they deserve hundreds of years in the future. there may be lesser musicians who are the voices of a generation. here i would have to look at people like bob dylan, van morrison, leonard cohen. joni is on a different level. and do other people ever get the feeling that people think youre just being obstinate and/or arrogant when they start suggeting that other musicians are also as good as joni and you eithr politely disagree or burst out laughing as the case may be. ron joni - sunny sunday
