Brit could have been a legend but she ruins any chance after FF and her continuous downfall afterwards. She can still recover tho, hopefully she will.
Rih still has a LONGWAY2GO, but she is also likely to be a legend in the long run.
Bey is the closest pop star we have to reach legend status. Her impact, her touring power, and don't forget the respect she has earned >>>>
Adele and Taylor have a huge chance to also be a legend
Katy, Gaga, J.Lo is more of an icon.
I have mixed feeling about Janet. I want to say she is a legend, but her greatest legacy to the public is somehow the nipplegate (followed far behind by Rhythm Nation perhaps). So....
Janet Jackson,maybe within the industry,she has influenced tons of performers but she's just MJ's sister to the GP
I cannot name more than one of her songs on top of my head,and don't come for my age.
I can name at least 5 songs by Elvis,David Bowie or Prince and i wasn't even born during their peaks
Pretty much all of ATRL's faves that are considered in legend discussions are too young and/or still too current to be considered as such by the GP; even the ones we already refer to as legends and know will be living legends in a general sense at some point. Even someone like Mariah isn't fully there yet to the point of general regard (Google her name and legend and compare it to the same with Madonna or Tina Turner and you'll see what I mean by that). It will be years down the road before the late 90s/2000s girls will be referenced as legends (the only true exception for early legend status would be an untimely demise a la Cobain, Morrison, Joplin, Hendrix etc.).
David Bowie (He's a legend in the UK but nowhere else)
Joni Mitchell (I doubt anyone in the GP even knows who this is)
Janet Jakcson (Totally forgotten by the GP)
Cyndi Lauper (GP considers her a one hit wonder)
Cue the Army saying Beyonce and the Hive saying Britney
But the truth of the matter is, we're the only ones post MJ-Madonna generation that can even talk about our faves being legends. Everyone else can sit at the little kids table.
"The first record of hers I discovered was Don Juan’s Daughter; I was around fourteen, fifteen and I knew it by heart (still do, every instrument, every noise, every word). I would love to cover sometime some of the songs of that album but they might be too sacred for me, too immaculate for me even to be able to suggest that they might be done in any other way. At that age my love for her was very intuitive and limitless with total ignorance of her meaning in North America in the hippy era, for example. I guess now later when I am a bit more knowledgeable about foreigners and history and context and such things I understand better her importance to the world and why she made such an impact on a teenage girl in Iceland (who had never left the island at that point, actually)." - Björk
"I was really, really into Joni Mitchell. I knew every word to Court and Spark; I worshipped her when I was in high school. Blue is amazing. I would have to say of all the women I've heard, she had the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view." - Madonna
"I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell. The melody is what I gravitate to – and it's my job to listen to what's happening when those guys [in Tool] go down these staccato, rhythmic, insane mathematical paths. It's my job to soften it and bring it back to the center, so you can listen to it without having an eye-ache." - Maynard James Keenan
"I'm here to honor one of the very few artists I believe has been a real pioneer.... She has continuously and courageously experimented, putting substance before style, passion before packaging.... She's been a major influence on my work, as she has on many other artists as diverse as Seal, Madonna, Sting, Natalie Merchant, Annie Lennox, and the Artist Formerly Known as the Artist Formerly Known As." - Peter Gabriel
"As a kid I was drawn to Joni Mitchell records. Along with Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, Joni's songs spoke to me in an intimate, personal way." - Janet Jackson
"She wrote it about her deepest pains and most haunting demons," explained Swift, who went on to detail some tracks. "Songs like 'River,' which is just about her regrets and doubts of herself – I think this album is my favorite because it explores somebody's soul so deeply." - Taylor Swift
"She's my 'shero'. I've known her music since I was 10 - I can remember being in my room, grounded, and she was my escape. When I went to the Lilith Fair last summer, I thought, 'We're all just Joni Mitchell wannabes'" - Wynonna Judd
She said "Sounds like a real man 2 me"
"Mind if I turn on the radio?"
"Oh, my favorite song" she said
And it was Joni singing "Help me I think I'm falling"
Scenes from 'Under the Cherry Moon'.
Quote:
"I met her at a Vanity Fair photo shoot. Stevie Wonder introduced us. He took my hand — I guess I led him to her — and he said, "Joni, I'd like you to meet Jewel." I just shook her hand and tried to swallow. I didn't have anything to say to her. Her influence on me is so obvious. I hope she can hear it." - Jewel
"I was a songwriter before an artist, and writing for me, I love – I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and “Storytellers.” People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that’s what I really aim for." - Emeli Sandé
STEREOGUM: Yeah, that makes sense. What’s some of the pop of the past that inspires you?
WEAVER: Well, I just love female singer-songwriters. Joni [Mitchell], Carole [King], Carly [Simon], Tori [Amos], Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom. I love Bowie, I love Led Zeppelin. I learned so much from my dad. He’s a big music head. I just always listened to all kinds of genres. So I think maybe that’s what it is, is it’s just, I think we live in a generation where you can be influenced by absolutely everything, so it’s really like, it’s boutique genres. You get to kind of create exactly what you want based on everything you’ve ever listened to. And so I think that’s where I stray from pop a little. I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
If she's forgotten, why are people still citing her as an influence on their work? Why are people still covering her songs? Please do some research, Lethal.
I get you're very narrow minded, but it's getting embarrassing hun.
Artists citing her as an influence
