Get her! Get her!
Gosh... she looks surprisingly like a blackfaced James Coburn.... eeeyeeew!
Great costume. O.o
Mea culpa, I wore blackface on Halloween in 1964. That night, I was Willie Mays, complete with Giants uniform...I was 10 years old.
If Joni Mitchell has done it, plenty of other celebrities have, too.
Well just interesting. Yesterday’s just having fun to today’s hyped racial stereotyping.
I still don’t understand the problem with costumes of different type people, isn’t that the intent of costumes. The cowboy, the Indian, the Hunter, the pimp, the nurse.
“a black man in pimp-like garb”
Mebbe dressing as a pimp was a statement about the Hollywood music lords she so esteemed...
I am surprised the BBC would out her on this.
Joini doesn’t need to pull her music off Spotify. The Woke cancle squad will do it for her. No doubt she was inspired by Ralph Northam. She probably has a promising future in Virginia Democrat politics.
>> Whichever view you take, her black alter ego was a reflection of her intense identification with black music. <<
If she wasn’t so liberal:
“Whichever view you take, her black alter ego is a painful reminder that she spent her entire career misappropriating black culture”
If I also recall, Joni caused a big stink by having a picture taken in an Israeli military uniform. The Pali-Lovers have hated her ever since.
She’s quite the mixed-bag politically, definitely Left leaning, but not worried about occassionally pissing them off, like Elton John, also is.
So, “intense identification with black music” equates to dressing as a pimp?
Horse pucky. She was dressed up for a party. Grow a pair and just leave it at that. Quit feeding the mindless tyrants by justifying it by twisting logic and facts.
Another passive-aggressive liberal Canadian.
What identification? Joni Mitchell sounds about as black as a harp solo.