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Cyndi Lauper- Carey
Joni Mitchell gets covered alllllllllll the time, but usually it’s a bit of a mess. Artists are either too faithful to the original version and suffer in comparison (pretty much every performance of River or The Circle Game, k.d. lang’s covers, etc.) or go too far in the other direction and lose what made the song great. (Sufjan Stevens, I love you, but that Free Man in Paris was an abomination!) Cyndi Lauper’s version of Carey, first performed at the 2000 Tribute to Joni Mitchell, is a notable exception. This downtempo jazzy rendition changes the song’s tone and draws out the sadness about leaving behind an entire lifestyle that’s only implicit in the original. It’s a surprisingly effective reworking, and its delivered perfectly by Cyndi, who shows off a side of her musical talent most people never got to see and gives a beautiful emotional reading.
You have to love the little shots of Joni throughout and the odd celebrity cameos by Ashley Judd, Rebecca Romaijn (-Stamos), and John Stamos too.
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