Line #11 TearJerker/JoniMitchell

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1	This Canadian female singer/songwriter has a few very emotional songs.
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4	* "The Magdalene Laundries" is based on the real-life indignities suffered by inmates of the Magdalene Asylums in Ireland.
5	* "Big Yellow Taxi" (also covered by TearJerker/CountingCrows and Amy Grant).
6	* "Both Sides Now" is another one.
7	-->I've looked at love from both sides now\
8	From give and take, and still somehow\
9	It's love's illusions that I recall.\
10	I really don't know love at all.
11	** It's even more hard-hitting when you contrast the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg more poppy, folky version]] from the seventies to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ noughties version]] made famous in ''Film/LoveActually''. The aching and more sensual maturity in Mitchell's vocals, coupled with the superb orchestral arrangement, adds a poignancy to the latter that wasn't present in the former. The original is wistful; the more modern version is heartbreaking.
12	** And to complete the trifecta, there's the version from her surprise [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aqGjaFDTxQ 2022 Newport Folk Festival appearance]], her first full show in over 20 years and still recovering from her 2015 aneurysm. Even the ''band members'' are openly sobbing by the end of the song.
13	* "Little Green" (from ''Music/BlueJoniMitchellAlbum'') is about the child Joni had and gave up for adoption. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments They were reunited later on]], but something about Joni's voice and the fact that she obviously thought she'd never see the child again is just heart-wrenching.
14	** And "River", holy crap. Strangely enough, a lot of artists cover it on Christmas albums.
15	* Also: "The Circle Game", "Down To You", "The Last Time I Saw Richard", and "The Silky Veils of Ardour".
16	** "The Circle Game" somewhat really hits it when she gets to the lines.
17	--->So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty\
18	Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
19	** Which practically narrates that SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome follows and whatever childish wishes he had [[GrowingUpSucks were simply abandoned and forgotten as he grew older]]. Only to be saved by the {{hope spot}} that 'there'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty'. Ask Music/NeilYoung: it's about him.
20	* "Cherokee Louise", about a childhood friend who was [[RapeAsDrama sexually abused.]]
21	* The verse in "Song for Sharon" about the woman from Joni's hometown who was DrivenToSuicide. To drive the point home, Joni's background vocalizations sound like crying.

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