Joni Mitchell = Black man?

Help me, I think I'm falling...

(Joni as "Art Nouveau" ^)

Whew...I’m SO glad Joni Mitchell pulled her music from Spotify. If she hadn’t, I would’ve been compelled to remove my podcast rather than share a platform with such a despicable racist! (That’s how it goes with cancel culture, right?)

Joni Mitchell appeared at a 1976 Halloween party as a "pimp-like character" described as a "svelte black man in a zoot suit with matching chapeau, meticulous afro, wide mustache, and big, dark shades.” It turned out Mitchell was dressing as her alter ego "Art Nouveau.” And that wasn't the last time "Art Nouveau" was seen. In fact, "Nouveau" appeared on the cover of her 1977 album "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter.”

"I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard (when) a black guy walked by me with a diddy-bop kind of step, and said in the most wonderful way, 'Lookin' good, sister, lookin' gooood'," Mitchell explained the inspiration for the costume in a 1988 interview with Q Magazine. "His spirit was infectious, and I thought, I'll go as him. I bought the make-up, the wig… sleazy hat and a sleazy suit and that night I went to a Halloween party and nobody knew it was me.”

Mitchell went beyond dressing in blackface, asserting on multiple occasions how much she identifies as being black, which she alleged began with comments from her dentist, who told her, "'Oh, you’ve got the worst bite I’ve ever seen. You have teeth like a Negro male.’"

"I don't have the soul of a white woman," Mitchell told LA Weekly. "I write like a black poet. I frequently write from a black perspective.” In an interview with New York Magazine in 2015, Mitchell said "When I see black men sitting, I have a tendency to go – like I nod like I’m a brother… I really feel an affinity because I have experienced being a black guy on several occasions."

P.S. Cancel cancel culture.