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  6. Somebody needs to be Mr-Not-So-Nice-Guy on this thread so ..

    While it’s great that Joni is now back in reasonably good health, it’s plain to hear that the unique and wonderful vocal qualities she once displayed are now irrevocably absent. Her unique and instantly-recognisable high-pitched tremolo has to be rendered by another singer who I note isn’t shown in that clip.
    Joni still sings perfectly in tune but her voice is now restricted to a much lower register.
    What she’s been doing with these recent reappearances is great but not sustainable for any length of time. They rely on the delight of her fans at her “resurrection” to carry it off and familiarity can only dim that delight, in my opinion, so I hope there won’t be too many of them for her sake.
    Maybe now she should concentrate on writing some new material that can be performed/recorded with her new voice or else can be performed by others.

        • I’ll have you know I am a teetotal abstainer from all things alcohol related, except those little chocolates with the liqueurs in them that you get round your aunty’s at Christmas.
          As regards Joni’s lyric, I don’t see it as problematic. I could drink huge quantities of you (not literally drink and certainly not literally you) without diminishing my senses or reducing my reaction times, because you enrich my health and psychological well-being with no averse effects.
          I suppose it depends whether you see becoming intoxicated to the point of being unable to stand up, let alone converse in any sensible manner, as a positive or a negative thing. Joni and I clearly see it as a negative thing. I think it’s pretty apparent to all that you don’t.

          Hic!

          • You have mentioned your teetotalness before. I should have said “As out of my head on Lebanese Gold as Gary every night”.
            And I still think Joni drinking a case of fine wine and not getting drunk is not an indication of true love. “I put my corkscrew in and release the cork. That first heady aroma is enough, more than enough.” (Not sure how Joni is going to scan that in but, unlike me, she is a songsmith)

            • You’re Wrong again! For Lebanese Gold is hash (the brown stuff) which I very, very rarely partake thereof. My de-stimulant of choice is grass. The natural plant. Green and fresh as bestowed by Mother Nature herself.

              As a wordsmith myself, I think Joni is saying that even after a caseful of her paramour she would still be up for more of him. It would be impossible for her to be intoxicated legless by his love or satiated by his affection because he will always remain so desirable. I’m rather like that with Jaffa Cakes.

              • I reluctantly agree your interpretation might possibly be correct and I might possibly be Wrong – this is because the joy I would get from me being in a room stacked full of Tunnocks Caramel Wafers is I believe what Joni’s lyrics were trying to convey

    • Pretty much what I was thinking, along with wishing Brandi Carlile and the other backing singers would shut up and allow Joni to sing. It’s still great to have her back though.

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