{"id":2444044,"date":"2019-05-10T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=834070"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:45:42","slug":"hear-rita-oras-blissful-cover-of-joni-mitchells-big-yellow-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-rita-oras-blissful-cover-of-joni-mitchells-big-yellow-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Rita Ora\u2019s Blissful Cover of Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u2018Big Yellow Taxi\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rita Ora<\/a> remembers the first time she saw a photograph of Joni Mitchell<\/a>. \u201cI was like, \u2018Who\u2019s this awkward looking girl that\u2019s got a guitar in her hand all the time?’\u201d the English pop singer says in the latest episode of Spotify<\/a>\u2019s Under Cover podcast.<\/p>\n

Ora was taken aback by the stark contrast between Mitchell\u2019s sweet, fragile presence and her incendiary songwriting style. \u201cYou don\u2019t expect how confident the words that she says are when you look at her,\u201d Ora says. \u201cHer lyrics have so much depth and substance and presence that you don\u2019t actually consider her the underdog. I feel like that\u2019s what makes her so special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ora had never covered Mitchell\u2019s \u201cBig Yellow Taxi\u201d until she recorded it at Spotify Studios in New York, but it\u2019s often a song she sings with her friends when drunk. \u201cI pick up a guitar, play the song and I just sing from the top of my lungs,\u201d she says, admitting she\u2019s not very good at guitar. \u201cThat\u2019s when you know a record\u2019s a smash, when you\u2019re wasted and you like, play that song immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Big Yellow Taxi\u2019 is a perfect song,\u201d Ora says of Mitchell\u2019s 1970 classic. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really have a lot going on.\u201d The singer went on to admire the simple, stripped-down arrangement\u2014comprised of Mitchell\u2019s voice and guitar\u2014and the environmental theme of the track. \u201cObviously lyrically, she\u2019s a genius,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not really a theme type of record,\u201d Ora surmises. \u201cIt\u2019s got folk, pop, rock, jazz\u2026her whole inspiration hasn\u2019t been stuck to one genre. It\u2019s a bit like me, I really relate to that.\u201d Ora\u2019s cover of \u201cBig Yellow Taxi,\u201d which you can hear in the link above, keeps with the original\u2019s purity, but Ora slowed it down so listeners can really absorb the lyrics. \u201cThat\u2019s what music is, you come out of yourself,\u201d Ora concludes. \u201cI just wanted to feel like I was away from everywhere, and I feel like that\u2019s what Joni does so well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rita Ora remembers the first time she saw a photograph of Joni Mitchell. \u201cI was like, \u2018Who\u2019s this awkward looking girl that\u2019s got a guitar in her hand all the time?’\u201d the English pop singer says in the latest episode of Spotify\u2019s Under Cover podcast. Ora was taken aback by the stark contrast between Mitchell\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:42:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}