The video’s text overlay reads, “Me when I’m singing this and my brother has to tell me Joni Mitchell had a Black alter ego named Art Nouveau and she got so much backlash that she had to ...

For a superfan I’ve not been very diligent with Joni Mitchell’s back catalogue ... featuring Joni in Blackface as her alter ego “Art Nouveau” on the cover. I was a coward who didn ...

Joni Mitchell dressed up as her black ‘alter-ego’ on several occasions during the 1970s and 1980s ...

First, the naivety. Mitchell’s controversial use of blackface started in 1976. That was the year when she first dressed up as a male black pimp alter-ego called Art Nouveau. You read that correctly.