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Joni Mitchell: "The Way It Is" CBC-TV

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Uploaded by on Mar 30, 2008

Joni Mitchell performs her song "The Way It Is" in 1968 on the CBC-TV program of the same name.

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  • This is a very intuitive song speaking to a monolithic empire that fashions our reality (as they see it to be). With regard to her song, regardless of what she may relly be communicating, those in charge will 'see what they want to see'. Therefore, her lines, 'who am I to tell you how to think or tell you who to be' because ' you just see what you want to see'. It's a song about the real reality nobody is really talking about.

  • @TheNigelr could not agree more

  • absolutely spell binding. alchemy. she's not of this earth.

  • @theqman1956 I was thinking of Nick's guitar cords during this song too. Hearing them together would be interesting. It could be done. Natalie Cole did a duet with her father after his death via a video splice into his old songs.

  • this is haunting and mesmerizing

  • @Uktrayf i know, i'm being a sarcastic douchebag. joni's vocals are mind-blowing.

  • @LiberaLib she did

  • god, maybe if she learned to sing.

  • @jjj1951 Joni didn't so much "go" mainstream, as DEFINE a good chunk of what "mainstream" was, for the better part of a decade or so. Her songs were for the most part, right on the cutting edge of what was "mainstream" was - they led and lighted the way: she followed no trend nor person, but rather charted her own course - and did it AMAZINGLY well!!!!

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