Joni Mitchell 說她不唱了
billboard news
Joni Mitchell Says New Album Will Be Her Last
Veteran singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell, disgusted
with the music business, has said her latest album
will also be her last. "These are my last two
records," the influential Canadian songstress said
of her forthcoming double album "Travelogue," due
Nov. 19 via Nonesuch.
"I'm quitting after this because the business has
made itself so repugnant to me," Mitchell, 59, is
quoted as telling the December edition of W
magazine. Mitchell, whose eclectic career spans 35
years across folk, rock, and jazz, has been hinting
for weeks that she might end the recording career
that made her one of the most respected and
outspoken artists of her generation.
"The willingness to do anything to stay in the news
-- that's the formula now," Mitchell told Billboard
in September 2001. "But no real artist has the
stomach for all that commodification. I'm not
ambitious to be a bigger star, and we live in a
decadent time when people shrug about misogyny or
that there are crooks in power. I can't write songs
in this climate. I'm basically phasing out; I'm
retiring again. I'm a painter, and I got derailed
into this other game, and so I'm going back to my
paints."
She has refused to do anything to make her music
more salable. "What would I do?" she asked in the W
magazine interview. "Show my t***? Grab my crotch?
Get hair extensions and a choreographer? It's not my
world."
"Travelogue," a two-disc. 22-track collection,
features orchestrated versions of some but not all
of Mitchell's best known songs, including
"Woodstock," "You Dream Flat Tires," "God Must Be A
Boogie Man," and "The Last Time I Saw Richard." As
with her 2000 album "Both Sides Now" (Reprise),
Vince Mendoza served as arranger and conductor for
the project, which also includes appearances by
Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.
"Both Sides Now" peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Top
Internet Albums chart and No. 66 on The Billboard 200.
--
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.csie.ntu.edu.tw)
◆ From: 61.220.188.189
Lilith 近期熱門文章
PTT影音娛樂區 即時熱門文章
7
33
