{"id":932074,"date":"2026-10-14T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932074\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:16:11","slug":"joni-mitchell-sworn-in-as-a-u-s-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932074\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Mitchell Sworn In as a U.S. Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen the New York Times ran a list of the greatest living American songwriters earlier this year, the ranking was greeted with a lot of reader flack for not including Joni Mitchell<\/a>. The newspaper\u2019s explanation at the time was that Mitchell was \u2014 and remained \u2014 a Canadian citizen, despite residing primarily in California, thus the exclusion.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow, the Times may need to update and amend the list after all, because the legendary singer-songwriter is now a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn her Instagram Tuesday morning, Mitchell posted a photograph of herself, smiling as she held an American flag, standing in front of dual United States and Department of Homeland Security flags. Along with that, she posted a short video of herself being applauded as she was called up to be sworn in as a citizen.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer simple caption: \u201cA journey that began 62 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNo further information was immediately forthcoming from Mitchell or her reps about the surprise move to dual citizenship after six-plus decades.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome may wonder why Mitchell picked now, of all times, to officially align herself with the U.S., given how many musicians of her generation and ilk have come out with statements suggesting that the Trump era has not been America\u2019s proudest moment. But there\u2019s a possibility that the current climate had something, or everything, to do with her decision.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo years ago, in an appearance fronting a \u201cJoni Jam\u201d at the Hollywood Bowl, Mitchell blurted out \u201cFuck Donald Trump,\u201d<\/a> then added, \u201cI wish I could vote\u2026I\u2019m a Canadian. I\u2019m one of those lousy immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the New York Times ran a list of the greatest living American songwriters earlier this year, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,4704],"class_list":["post-932074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-joni-mitchell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}