Joni Mitchell has spoken about the impact of her songwriting and her legacy in a rare interview, sharing the reaction to her evolution into a more personal songwriting style.The folk icon was speaking at a virtual Grammys party hosted by Arista Records founder Clive Davis, which was due to be held in March but was delayed after Davis was diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy.“My early work is kind of fantasy, which is why I sort of rejected it,” Mitchell told Davis about her views on her own work. “I started scraping my own soul more and more and got more humanity in it.
It scared the singer-songwriters around me; the men seemed to be nervous about it, almost like Dylan plugging in and going electric.
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