Elderly hippie, Joni Mitchell is back out of retirement after nine years, and she’s on the attack. In the title track to her new album, “Shine,” Mitchell takes a nice swipe at the Catholic Church by name.
“Shine on the Catholic Church/And the prisons that it owns,” she sings. “Shine on all the Churches/that love less and less.”
Mitchell was never one to mince words, but in her triumphant return on Starbucks’ Hear Records, she doesn’t give an inch.
In “Shine,” she continues: “Shine on lousy leadership/Licensed to kill/Shine on dying soldiers/In patriotic pain/Shine on mass destruction/In some God's name!”
Mitchell’s album will be something of a revelation to young people who might buy it at Starbucks when it’s released Tuesday if they listen to it and read the lyrics. [....Snip] Huffington Post
For those of you interested, the attached link will take you to Starbucks feedback line for their Hear Music program of which Mitchell's album is a part: Starbucks Hear Music Comments and questions
4 comments:
Yeah - she lost me at Woodstock - or one of those outdoor music fests - maybe it was Stevenspoint? It's all such a blurr.
Terry: I know, you drop acid at one concert, you drop it at all.
Mescaline was my drug of choice. I always freaked out on acid. Although I would split window pane into quarters - if you knew how small that is, you'd be impressed - and the trips were very sedate. I was miraculously delivered from drugs in an instant. I should write about that some day.
Her new album 'SHINE' is an amazing feat for a sixty four year old woman who can still give all the singer songwriters a run for their money. It's almost like a prayer to the ills and stupidity of mankind and the music is sublime.
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