"How Do You Stop" Released: 1994 (Europe and Australia)
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AllMusic
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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Entertainment Weekly
B+
Los Angeles Times
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NME
5/10[4]
Q
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Rolling Stone
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Turbulent Indigo is the 15th album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in 1994, it won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Album. John Milward, writing for Rolling Stone, wrote that it was Mitchell's "best album since the mid-'70s".[7]
The album marked her return to Warner Music (formerly WEA) distribution after her previous album, Night Ride Home, was distributed by MCA for its then-newly purchased subsidiary Geffen Records (which, prior to the sale to MCA, had distributed through WEA).
The album takes inspiration from the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh for Mitchell's self-portrait on the cover. The song "Turbulent Indigo" references van Gogh, while describing the mental turmoil both he and Mitchell face in the creative process. The song "Not to Blame" was rumored to be about Mitchell's fellow singer-songwriter and former lover Jackson Browne, who was alleged to have beaten his girlfriend, actress Daryl Hannah.[8][9]
Mitchell also takes in non-personal issues, notably in the song "Magdalene Laundries", which recounts the sufferings of Irish women once consigned to Magdalen Asylums run by the Roman Catholic Church and made to work in the asylums' laundries. Similarly, the song "Sex Kills" referenced a number of late 20th century topical issues, including violence, AIDS, global warming and consumerism.
As of December 2007[update], the album has sold 311,000 copies in the US.[10]
^Ruhlmann, W. (2011). "Turbulent Indigo – Joni Mitchell | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
^Larkin, Colin (2011). "Mitchell, Joni". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
^Willman, Chris (2011). "Album Review – Los Angeles Times". articles.latimes.com. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
^Forrest, Emma (November 5, 1994). "Long Play". NME. p. 46. Retrieved November 13, 2023.
^Q, December 1994
^Milward, John (2011). "Joni Mitchell: Turbulent Indigo : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 24, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^John Milward (December 15, 1994). "Rolling Stone magazine". Rolling Stone. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
^"Jackson Browne casts "Blame' back at Mitchell". Tampa Bay Times. September 30, 1997. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
^Taylor, Tom (November 11, 2023). "The "very ill" Joni Mitchell song that Jackson Browne says was "beneath her"". faroutmagazine.co.uk. Archived from the original on November 19, 2023. Retrieved November 20, 2023.
^Caulfield, Keith (December 21, 2007). "Ask Billboard". Billboard. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
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