Title: What on Earth Was She Thinking?
Review: She ransacked her music, turning it into kitsch more adroitly than most hack cover-artists could have done. Wasn't anyone around to tell Joni that less is more? The best thing are her paintings, reproduced in the insert. They are spare. The musical arrangements are unbelievably pretentious and self-indulgent. The lapse of her characteristic taste is astonishing. For that reason, the CD has some interest, perverse interest. This is a side of Joni that maybe we really didn't want to know about. Unlike what some people say about her music in her early singer-songwriter days, this recording really is embarrasing to listen to. Graceful retirement, please.
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