RS "Mitchell also lambasted MTV, complaining that her three-year-old granddaughter is already grabbing her crotch and dancing, imitating the video clips played on the music cable network."
this doesn't mean the child's parents are letting the child watch these videos!...she might be hanging out with kids whose older siblings watch MTV & do the crotch grab...correct me if i am wrong but this statement led someone here to assume that the child's mother was lame for letting her watch mtv? whoa...big leaps of assumptions going on here! RS "In holding up Bob Dylan and herself as the standard for songwriting, she has written off devotees like Sting, Alanis Morissette and Sheryl Crow." the above is the writers opinion, a writer for rolling stone btw...i'd be more inclined to be upset at joni if i read what she ACTUALLY said in the context of an interview (& i do know she disses people which i aggree is totally uneccessary)...however...writers choose words according to their own agenda...for instance in the very first quote above, the writer could have said 'mitchell chided or was saddened...rather than lambasted...so the writers choice of words puts the subject (joni) in the light he chooses to put her...i read what writers say joni said with a very critical eye...no wonder she gets upset at being misunderstood... RS "Mitchell has also previously savaged her former label boss David Geffen for not paying her any royalties, although he has countered that her albums never sold enough copies to cover the advance payments that she received from him." i know people get tired of hearing her complain about this but again this writer has chosen a very deliberately negative word- savaged...i think this writer has an attitude & an agenda... major labels are notorious for withholding royalties & altering the math in their favor...i'd be willing to guess that it isn't the money joni is upset about as much as the the sleezy assed business practices of a so called former friend.... ******************************************** Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs Over the Moon- "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" All Music Guide ********************************************
