The 2007 album that made Joni Mitchell hate her label: “Criminally insane”Joni Mitchell has always had a love-hate relationship with music. Mitchell’s deeper displeasure with the industry at large was something that grew gradually over time. Her main issue was that there was nothing authentic left anymore, and labels had become obsessed with looks and artificiality and no longer the music itself. As someone who spawned from the same community that fought tooth and nail for the utmost authenticity, Mitchell’s decision to quit was understandable. “The record labels are criminally insane, ugly, screwed up, crooked, uncreative, selfish,” she told Ottawa Citizen in 2006.