{"id":10845,"date":"2024-01-24T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10845"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:43:48","slug":"music-joni-chinese-cafe-unchained-melody-live-wembley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10845","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Joni, Chinese Caf\u00e9\/Unchained Melody, Live, Wembley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hfm9VDZeWqY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joni is\/was astonishing. A one-off. She changed my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She broke my heart many thousands of times, not just through the artistry of her work, but also as an unattainable paragon of womanhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, after 40 odd years of being in love with her, and her artistry, I see her more as the flawed human she doubtless is, rather than the perfect Goddess that dominated my early obsession with her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But solid &#8211; or rather <em>fluid<\/em> &#8211; and consistent throughout, are the humanity and artistry. Definitely the greatest female music-maker of modern times, bar none. And right up at the front of the line regardless of gender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a rationalist type of guy, who started ditching religion (it can take a while!) around the same time I started to fall in love with Joni. But it\u2019s undeniable to me that the best art, such as she\u2019s made in such  staggering abundance, is kind of magical and alchemical. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also generally hold that her \u2018golden era\u2019 was Song to a Seagull to Hejira. But then I hear something like this, and realise it\u2019s the same gentle-spirited genius. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love you forever, Joni. Thanks for all the joy and the tears down the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joni is\/was astonishing. A one-off. She changed my life. She broke my heart many thousands of times, not just through the artistry of her work, but also as an unattainable paragon of womanhood. Now, after 40 odd years of being in love with her, and her artistry, I see her more as the flawed human &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Joni, Chinese Caf\u00e9\/Unchained Melody, Live, Wembley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2OV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}