¤ milky moon ¤

I'd like to make a statement.

I can commit to being a positive, constructive presence.

I have a deep and profound respect for whatever that singular thing is we know to be Joanna's music.

I won't criticize members' postings of "unauthorized" content, in the manner I have expressed in previous appearances.

I will not, if someone runs over my tricycle, replace all my posts with "This post left intentionally blank" entries. As posts seem to be thoroughly moderated before publication, I think this last I offer for only some amusement.

Steve.

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I have learned that post-monitoring is temporary.

Hi my name is Jennie, I'm introducing myself in excitement of the long awaited new album! I'm looking forward to reading and replying to the discussions that will take place. Thanks to this forum for keeping me updated on Joanna news!

Hi! My name isn't really Harriet, but I'll answer to that. I just joined in my excitement for the new album! My boyfriend is a philistine, so I am pretty lonely in my anticipation.

I describe Joanna Newsom as my imaginary friend to people who ask--I've got a long, intense relationship to her music. I attended Mills College a few years after she left, and I was introduced to her by a mutual former professor of ours who lent me Walnut Whales to burn. Her early music was the soundtrack to my Mills experience--which included serious mental health struggles and a constant questioning of whether I wanted to be there--and her work since then has been just as important. Ys solidified my devotion, and while I didn't initially appreciate Have One on Me as much (save for a few songs), in the past couple of years I've come to love it almost as much as the others; it especially helped me through a bad breakup a few years ago. She basically plays the same role in my life as my two best friends from Mills do: I call her up whenever I need solace, support, or someone to grapple with intellectually.

I've never met her, so on one level this all probably sounds very creepy. But these are just the types of relationships we develop with art, right?

I've had lots of music that's developed intense personal meaning for me, but almost none have survived as long as Joanna's body of work has. (Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, both of whom I started listening to as a child, are probably the only two that are comparable.) I can't wait to hear the new album, and see where it takes me!

Apologies for the slow approval; the forum decided to stop notifying me that there was an approval queue. Welcome aboard!

HI, fellow Joanna fans! I'd prefer to not reveal my real name if that's okay, but I'm 22 years old and live in Sweden. I joined now because of the new album.

I started to listen to Joanna in early 2011. I had heard of her before, but I hadn't bothered to listen since there's just so much music out there. But in 2010 I had heard all the talking about HOOM, and in late 2010 I saw On a Good Day linked somewhere and I listened to it and LOVED it! A bit later I started to plough through HOOM, track by track, and then I went on to the rest of her discography. I instantly fell in love with her unique, beautiful music. For like a month I was almost exclusively listening to Joanna. Since then, she has been my favourite musician. I don't use the word genius lightly, but I believe she is one. There's really no one else like her, and her songwriting is unparalleled.

I have listened to Divers for the first time and it's definitely going to get a lot of replay. I really hope she will tour somewhere reasonably close to me (preferably in Gothenburg) - to see her live would be a dream come true.