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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