Whereas I’m glad to be a toddler of the ’90s, if solely as a result of I don’t suppose being homosexual would have been, um, a hoot at any earlier time in historical past, just a little a part of me has at all times been pissed to have missed out on the Nineteen Seventies. I image the ’70s model of myself residing in Laurel Canyon (no, I don’t understand how she received the cash for this), sporting fringe, being extraordinarily chill, and—most of all—one way or the other being intimate buddies with Joni Mitchell, so you may think about my pleasure after I heard that the 80-year-old artist was slated to sing on the upcoming Grammy Awards.

Mitchell has by no means carried out on the Grammys earlier than, and I’m selecting to interpret her sudden choice to take action as an indication that the 12 months of Joni is upon us eventually. (Not for nothing, after a string of live performance appearances with Brandi Carlile final yr, Mitchell will even carry out her first Los Angeles headlining present in a long time on the Hollywood Bowl this fall.) One might argue that the true 12 months of Joni was, say, 1971, when Blue got here out (an album with the facility to make me ugly-sob like a fireplace hydrant each time I hear it), however in my view we’re nicely overdue for a Jonissance. Might her Grammys efficiency be so singularly attractive that it conjures up the likes of the Kardashian-Jenners, the Hadids, or Taylor Swift’s soccer squad to develop out their hair and sport crochet berets?

In fact, far stranger issues have occurred on this planet of trend than peak Joni-wear returning to the fore; lest we neglect, in 2015 she fronted a marketing campaign for Saint Laurent. Who may she align with subsequent? Perhaps Collina Strada? I feel that model’s neo-hippie, earth-first vibe would go nicely with Mitchell’s ethos, and I do know I’d be first in line to purchase fairly actually any merchandise that Mitchell had stamped together with her approval. You might even day it’s all I would like…