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Joni Mitchell’s Best Album Is Turning Fifty. It’s Not Blue

“She was done playing the starry-eyed hippie. She was tired of singing dirges.”

“How do you reinvent yourself after being a global superstar? The former R.E.M. frontman is still figuring that out.”

“More than anything, ‘Renaissance’ is a testament that Beyoncé is a brand that stands for absolutely nothing beyond its own greatness.”

How Taylor Swift reflects every possible version of ourselves.

“What can millions of Swifties tell us about human community and pop culture? A KU sociology professor is finding out.”

“She’s a Fashion Week standout who rejects the notion that clothes should define you. Come join a four-hour phone call with Erykah Badu.”

“For more than 20 years he’s taught generations to let loose on the dance floor. He’s not stopping anytime soon.”

“Biggie. Tupac. DMX. We pay tribute to 63 stars who died too young.”

“When music made collaboratively with other musicians goes right, I feel a budding, rising warmth and comfort. Is this my mother smiling on me?”

“Everyone is dancing a little bit, bobbing, but really they are having an extended, possibly endless, interior experience.”