[Microplastics] Both Sides Now [Surrounding] (& a Ranking of the Top 12 Versions of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now)
Reimagining Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' PLUS a Ranking the Top 12 Versions
[Microplastics] Both Sides Now [Surrounding]
After Joni Mitchell
Rays and days of emerging electric power And Green New Deals and Zero Hours As intersectional movements flower I’ve viewed the world this way But still elites only block action As micoplastics rain on everyone Gesturing many things we could have done But like plastic clouds, they got in our way I've watched clouds from both sides now Filling with microsplastics because of how Big Oil’s delusions are all we recall We really don’t know Earth at all Skies and tries and non-poison wheels The centrifugal way this feels As every dark fairytale twists real I've looked at it all that way But this isn’t just another song or show But a collective ballad with many flows And if you care, and join, we’ll grow Don't give our future away I've consumed love from both sides now From click and take, because of how Big Oil’s delusions are all we recall We really don’t know Earth Really don’t know Earth at all Hope, despair, and feeling proud To say, "We got this" now, out loud With green dreams and schemes that surround We could see the world this way Oh, but now old friends see, Earth’s acting strange They shake their heads, telling me that Climate’s Changed Well, I tell them, there’s more to lose and more to gain Still in every living day I view the world from both sides now From grief to rage and still somehow It’s grand delusions that I still follow I really don't know, but I’ll give it all It's the world’s delusions I recall I really don't know how it comes together I really don't know what’s to come at all.
NEW STUDY: Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
The Top 12 Versions of Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now
1. Joni Mitchell— Both Sides Now (Original)
2. Joni Mitchell— Both Sides Now (2021 Remaster)
4. Joni Mitchell— Both Sides Now (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970)
5. Joni Mitchell– Both Sides Now (Live at the Newport Folk Festival 2022)
6. Brittany Howard— Both Sides Now (with Herbie Hancock)
7. Annie Lennox— Both Sides Now (Live at Gershwin Prize 2023)
8. Judy Collins— Both Sides Now
9. Josh Groban— Both Sides Now (Duet with Sara Bareilles)
10. Emilia Jones— Both Sides Now (CODA | 2021)
11. Emilia Jones— Both Sides Now (BAFTAs 2022 Performance, from CODA)
12. Kala Banham— Both Sides Now (The Voice Blind Audition)
BONUS: Joni Mitchell Talks ‘Blue’, “Both Sides Now”, & Newport Folk Festival with Elton John