{"id":616100,"date":"2024-04-09T03:13:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-from-joni-mitchell-to-metallica\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T03:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T00:13:49","slug":"watch-from-joni-mitchell-to-metallica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-from-joni-mitchell-to-metallica\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch From Joni Mitchell to Metallica"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33d9180ee9e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33d9180ee9e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-from-joni-mitchell-to-metallica\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_From_Joni_Mitchell_to_Metallica%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online From Joni Mitchell to Metallica&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-from-joni-mitchell-to-metallica\/#%E2%80%9CFrom_Joni_Mitchell_to_Metallica%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;From Joni Mitchell to Metallica&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_From_Joni_Mitchell_to_Metallica%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online From Joni Mitchell to Metallica&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CFrom_Joni_Mitchell_to_Metallica%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;From Joni Mitchell to Metallica&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Even on a day when much of America was hoping to see the sun go out, there\u2019s still an ongoing need to hear someone sing \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.\u201d That, among many other things, is what\u2019s offered in tonight\u2019s PBS broadcast of a tribute special for Elton John and Bernie Taupin, two of the worthiest talents ever to be awarded the Library of Congress\u2019 Gershwin Prize. If you\u2019re a fan \u2014 and who isn\u2019t?, as they say \u2014 the two-hour show will provide a total eclipse of all your other most pressing entertainment needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Three words: \u201cJoni Mitchell\u201d and \u201cMetallica.\u201d If this salute never moved out of the M\u2019s, it would be worthy enough just based on those two highlights alone, neither of whom probably seemed like the likeliest Elton interpreter. But there they are, on the very same bingo card. That\u2019s not to slight very fine performances from Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox and the like \u2014 or Elton himself, who closes out the program with a mini-set \u2014 but sometimes it\u2019s the novelties that stick with you when masters stack up against masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In the most memorable moment of the night, Mitchell covers \u201cI\u2019m Still Standing,\u201d which is as <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate as it sounds, given her physical recovery in recent years. It\u2019s also much funnier than you\u2019re expecting. Carlile (who assists on vocals, along with Lennox) introduces Mitchell\u2019s cover version by saying that \u201cthis is a song that holds special meaning for her\u201d and that \u201cshe was given the green light by Elton and Bernie to change some of the lyrics to fit her, which is honestly the most Joni Mitchell thing I think I\u2019ve ever heard of.\u201d From that, you might expect that Mitchell will have rewritten the lyrics to make them more inspirational somehow \u2014 because this is one of those songs that everyone remembers for its uplifting chorus but no one remembers has kind of vituperative verses. But no; Joni\u2019s rewrite doesn\u2019t change the meaning of the song at all; it just makes those verses sound even more vengeful, in a plain-spoken sort of way. When Mitchell gets to the new lines \u201cMy heart\u2019s not broken and my path is clear \/ You were just a little bumpy detour, dear\u201d (with a pregnant pause before the \u201c\u2026dear\u201d completes the rhyme), the camera cuts to David Furnish LOL-ing, and I was right there with him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GP24_PRESS_JONI MITCHELL_20240402\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/930034098?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But of course it <em>is<\/em> inspirational, because Mitchell is really up and bopping, looking like she\u2019s feeling like a little kid as much as she\u2019s ever likely to. At the end of the tune, she takes that omnipresent cane of hers and waves it in the air, as a show of strength (or maybe just to warn whoever did her wrong to vacate the premises). It\u2019s so much fun, and it sounds great because Blake Mills \u2014 a frequent presence in the public Joni Jams that have gone down \u2014 provides most of the accomp<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a>nt with an electric guitar part that turns the tune into a jaunty blues. Come the end of 2024, this will probably still stand as one of my favorite covers of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Unless it is supplanted by Metallica\u2019s take on \u201cFuneral for a Friend\/Love Lies Bleeding,\u201d in which no quarter is taken and at least a little blood is drawn. For better or worse, the opening all-instrumental section isn\u2019t im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely recognizable in Metallica\u2019s transformation, but it certainly is by the time it gets to the main course, at which point you may be thinking: Does it go against the laws of nature for Metallica to be playing in a major key? Anyway, it works, to have Elton\u2019s most hard-rocking song ever go a little harder. The tech team is judicious with the reaction shots, but surely there is a lot of rattling of jewelry going on in the balcony of Washington\u2019s DAR Revolution Hall, where some of the visiting politicos sit, and it\u2019d be nice to think some of them were inspired to deface the bathrooms afterward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Everything else in these two hours was a little more likely to show up on your bingo card for a John\/Taupin tribute. After Joni got the Gershwin Prize last year, the Library of Congress quickly moved on to Carlile\u2019s other well-established hero-BFF, and so it\u2019s little surprise, and not the slightest bit unwelcome, to see her show up repeatedly here. Leaving her old concert cover of \u201cRocket Man\u201d behind (actually, no one does that here), Carlile\u2019s first selection of the night is \u201cMadman Across the Water,\u201d which is cool enough, all the way down to an extended coda in which the singer doesn\u2019t have anything to do but happily stroll back and forth between Sista Strings on one side of the stage and guitarist Davey Johnstone on the other, as they do their respective things. (Kudos for the frequent use of the two-woman Sista Strings section in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, a nice, minimalist callback to the larger mastery of string arranger Paul Buckmaster\u2019s classic work.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GP24_PRESS_BRANDI CARLILE_20240402.mxf\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/930033942?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But the more exquisite of Carlile\u2019s two song choices is \u201cSkyline Pigeon,\u201d and not just because it\u2019s under-covered and great. Context counts for almost everything with this one, as her rendition caps a segment devoted to the long history of John\u2019s AIDS Foundation, and specifically to the HIV-stricken boy that won Elton\u2019s and the world\u2019s heart in the \u201980s, Ryan White. White\u2019s sister reads an open letter that John wrote to his late friend 20 years after his 1990 passing, talking about how the death of an \u201cinnocent\u201d helped change hearts and minds, even though, in Elton\u2019s words, \u201cYou reminded America that all victims of AIDS are innocent.\u201d It\u2019s a valuable history lesson squeezed into a tight space, even for those of us who need reminders, and the dollar figure cited for what the AIDS Foundation has raised \u2014 $600 million \u2014 is its own testament to John\u2019s legacy, apart from the music. John is weeping through this segment, and it will be Cry Along With Elton night for parts of the audience, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Speaking of his AIDS Foundation, John hosted his annual Oscar-viewing benefit in Beverly Hills again this year, and the live entertainer that night was Jacob Lusk, lead singer of the British group Gabriels\u2026 which surely had many people reading the invitation at the time asking: Who? Thankfully for those of us who didn\u2019t make it to that fundraiser, the \u201cwho\u201d is answered in a very public way on this special with Lusk\u2019s reading of \u201cBennie and the Jets\u201d \u2014 and it\u2019s magnificent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Not that you\u2019d ever want to bet against Elton\u2019s tastemaker instincts, but each protege has to prove himself, and Lusk really does it here by doing something original with \u201cBennie.\u201d That mid-\u201970s oldie is a great but virtually un-coverable song, which no one could possibly make sound weirder than the original, and which only suffers from any attempt to straighten it out. But Lusk has the voice of an angel \u2014 a very loud angel \u2014 and the quasi-gospel treatment finally answers the long-simmering question of whether \u201cBennie\u201d should just be left alone as a cover choice or not. Actually, his contribution here is just as must-see as Mitchell\u2019s and Metallica\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The other contributions all fall somewhere the serviceable-to-spectacular spectrum. Charlie Puth is probably one of the few pop stars around qualified to recreate Elton\u2019s piano part on \u201cDon\u2019t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,\u201d even if you might wish a song that emotionally intense had been given to someone with a more anguished-sounding voice. Lennox, who does not lack for vocal edge, shows why the world is still hungering for every crumb she occasionally throws out in the tributes she infrequently appears at these days with her wall-flattening \u201cBorder Song.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Billy Porter, the show\u2019s host, traverses the aisles with exactly the song you know he\u2019s going to do, \u201cThe Bitch Is Back.\u201d (It comes with a reminder that \u201cin 2024 I don\u2019t want you to be offended by the word \u2018bitch.\u2019 The queer community uses it as a love letter.\u201d Were we really worried about this? Well, it is PBS, so OK.) HIs fringe-y dress and leggy look is likely an homage to Tina Turner, who used to duet with John on the rocker before they had a falling out. Maren Morris, who has a nice history of covering Elton, turns on the AC with \u201cI Guess That\u2019s Why They Call It the Blues.\u201d Garth Brooks, a Gershwin honoree of a few years back himself, gets double-duty with \u201cSorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word\u201d and \u201cDaniel,\u201d both reminders that, among all the other things we forget to remember about Garth, he can capably sing just about anything from the great Anglo-American songbook that crosses his mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Video tributes roll in between songs from the likes of Carole King, who has special knowledge of what transpires when the music writer and lyricist are not the same person, and Paul McCartney, who says he has always been a little jealous of John being handed a sheet of paper with all the words on it and then spinning gold out of that. (He quickly hastens to add that he doesn\u2019t mean Elton has any less tough a task.) That does get to the eternal mystery of the John\/Taupin collaboration, and in talking about it, John always sounds as mystified as anyone else. His ability to take sometimes unwieldy words of Taupin\u2019s and instantaneously turn them into classics still feels a little spooky, as he describes it, as if it were a kind of automatic writing, melodically. As long as he is maintaining even he can\u2019t logically explain it, it\u2019s not ours to figure out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But it is ours to celebrate, and it\u2019s a delight to see these two being given their due as a team, whose respect and appreciation for each other has grown over 55 years, by the accounts given. This show is also implicitly a tribute to the Elton John Band, who perform behind a majority of the singers before backing a salmon-coated Elton himself for the final three songs, \u201cMona Lisa and Mad Hatters,\u201d \u201cSaturday Night\u2019s Alright for Fighting\u201d and \u201cYour Song.\u201d If we feared we\u2019d seen the last of them as a particular ensemble at Dodger Stadium in November 2022, Johnstone\u2019s appearance on this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> as musical director as well as guitarist is a nice assurance that revivals of the old gang can and will occur.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GP24_PRESS_ELTON_YOUR SONG_20240402\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/930034032?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Producer Ken Ehrlich, of decades of Grammy fame, has been characteristically canny with the choices of tribute-payers here. But with two honorees this year instead of one, he also knows that the best tributes that can be paid are the ones that the composer and lyricist are able to pay each other. That comes through in their mutual testimonials about each other, but it really comes through with the closing rendition of \u201cYour Song,\u201d in which we get a sight we\u2019ve probably never seen before, between these two typically long-distance collaborators: Taupin, leaning on John\u2019s red piano, taking it all in as stoic, appreciative glances are exchanged. It\u2019s unexpectedly touching to see these two on stage, alone together, for the length of a piece of music. <em>Gracious<\/em> is definitely not the hardest word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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