It’s interesting in some cases kind of risky to say that had Joni Mitchell never contracted polio when she was younger that her music might have taken on a very different sound and become something other than what it’s been for so long. The reason for this was that the disease managed to affect her in a way that made it necessary for her to alter her way of playing when she took up the guitar, thereby altering the music and granting a very unique sound that a lot of people might not have understood at first but soon came to agree was worth listening to. Joni was one of the many young folks that struggled in school as the indoctrinating ways of the average institution just didn’t work for her. She’s been a free-thinker for so long that the conventional way of learning has long been lost on her in many respects, but she’s still taken a great deal of experience from the world and how she’s interacted with it.
Here are a few of her songs and how they’ve been used in TV and movies.
5. The Voice – Big Yellow Taxi
This has to be one of her best-known songs since it’s been widely used in TV and movies alike. It’s an endearing track that speaks quite plainly of what we take for granted and how soon those things are gone. Life comes at us in such a rush that too many people are willing to take what they have at face value without really thinking about what might happen the day after they discover something or someone. A lot of us might look back and wonder just what we were thinking while we weren’t paying attention to time going by, though by the time we wake up to the fact it’s too late to do anything about it.
4. Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
Hereditary is a more recent movie in which a mother and her family are beset by something they don’t understand, something that seems to reside in their family and is usually classified as mental illness. When Annie’s mother’s grave is desecrated and she begins to have nightmares and visions concerning something that seems rather ominous and extremely dark she tries to find help but only succeeds in finding clues that her mother was into something that was beyond anything she knows. After the death of her daughter and the strange happenings continue to escalate it comes down to the realization that there is much more about her mother and family that she didn’t realize.
3. Joni Mitchell – Help Me
Kin is the kind of movie that you might watch just for fun since it looks like it might be entertaining and at the same time offer a lot of action but not enough plot. The whole idea of Eli being a person of interest that’s being protected by sending him to earth is kind of intriguing, but it’s also sprung at supposedly the last minute when nothing can be fully explained and the development of the story isn’t allowed to really come out and be given the kind of time it needs to unfold. This is why it’s a great idea but still needs some work, but the action kind of carries it through and makes it worth watching.
2. The Wonder Years – The Circle Game
A lot of us watched this show growing up either because we could relate to it in one way or another or because it was all that was on at that given moment. Still, it was fun to watch Kevin and his family interact and go through one dilemma after another since it made us realize that our problems were pretty much standard and weren’t so earth-shattering that the world might end at any moment if things didn’t go right. It was one of the many shows that was allowed to mirror real life in a way so as to really reach the audience and show them that it was okay to be who we were and that life was going to happen no matter what.
1. Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi
One thing that people tend to think about being a free-thinker is that a lot of people that learn this way are uneducated hippies that want to experience the world but not accept the realities that it comes with. The trouble with this thinking is that no one ever gets to experience the world like this unless they’re willfully ignorant and don’t think that the laws of this existence apply to them. That’s not what free-thinking is all about and it’s obviously not what Joni has been about in her career. Free-thinking can mean many things, but in her case it seems to indicate that she wasn’t comfortable being bound by the learning styles that are used with so many others and accepted as the norm.
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone.
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