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Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love

Source: Michael Ricci
May 13, 2008

Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?

Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of the chorus -- 'We are stardust, we are golden' “ -- that “conveyed the impression of hundreds of thousands of people speaking as one." ...
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