Re: How does Joni's music affect you?

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For me, Jon's music is pure poetry and each of her songs speaks to a particular stage of my life. Physically and emotionally, she makes me cry, sometimes bawl. Even though I often can't understand her intellectually, I feel I can understand her emotionally.

As I said in an earlier post today, I'm playing Amelia from Travelogue obsessively at the moment. " I tell Amelia, it was just a false alarm", speaks of expectations that were wrong-headed, false, silly, premature, embarrassing. "I crashed into his arms . . . Amelia, it was just a false alarm."

The great thing about Joni Mitchell is her humanity, the mistakes she's made and the mistakes she understands -- and sometimes her understanding of human frailty is overwhelming. It's like being with a Platonic ideal of Mother. It makes me think that humiliation and "getting it wrong" have been an all-too-large part of her life.

Sarah


At 11:20 AM -0500 02/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

         I've been wondering about why people listen to Joni,specifically how
does Joni's music affect you on an intellectual,emotional,physical,and
spiritual level?