Joni Mitchell was a musical genius.
In the way that Mozart and Beethoven were proclaimed to be brilliant, Joni Mitchell's music is innovative and compelling. The unusual melodic arrangements are surprising and twist and turn in every song. This is not usual predictable folk progressions with comforting lyrics; she tapped into something else and I don't feel like she was fully recognized for it. If she had been born in the time of Beethoven and had been a man; we might now be studying her music in school and analyzing the vocal melodies and various textures weaving in and out of the harmonic structure as she beautifully strums on the dulcimer: finding ways to voice chords vertically in different positions to make the texture vary and complement her vocal line. Maybe it's just that it's really early and I'm sleepy and her music is resonating in me in a profoundly moving way.
To those people that in the moments before the second cup of coffee are lost between sleep and awake; semiconscious. When your eyes weighed down by left over sleep and kung-fu dreams can barely open and everything seems twice as hard to do, and all the cars are crashing and every instant is a million collisions? I imagine Joni Mitchell was one of those people. Maybe that's why I relate so deeply to her music when I'm in this state. Either way, I do believe that she was truly amazing and has produce timeless music that will help people out of their dreams and into their lives for centuries to come.
In case you're wondering, this is what I'm listening to this morning.
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