“Local woman crashes out to joni mitchell,” the ‘Snow White’ actress joked in her caption
Rachel Zegler is paying homage to a musical icon.
The 23-year-old Snow White star recently performed a rendition of Joni Mitchell‘s 1971 hit “A Case of You,” as seen in a video posted to her Instagram grid on Monday, April 7.
Zegler’s video appeared to be taken from home, as her dog was even spotted near the end of the footage, coming in to snuggle up to its owner and give her face a few licks.
“You like Joni Mitchell?” Zegler asked her pup as she concluded the song, laughing.
Mitchell herself gave a rare performance earlier this year, taking the stage at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles for the FireAid Benefit Concert on Jan. 30.
Perched in a golden throne, the legendary folk singer-songwriter, 81, sang her 1966 classic “Both Sides Now,” while fellow musician Blake Mills accompanied her on guitar.
During the set, Mitchell was tapping a black cane on the floor. The 18-time Grammy nominee (and 11-time winner) even changed up the lyrics during her set.
The performance came almost a decade after Mitchell suffered an aneurysm in March 2015 that left her unable to walk or talk, but she has since recovered.
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Zegler isn’t the only A-lister giving Mitchell some love as of late. Last month, Amanda Seyfried channeled the music icon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, after the host asked if she played any instruments while discussing her singing in movies like Mamma Mia! and Les Misérables.
After revealing she knew how to play the piano, clarinet, guitar and dulcimer, the 39-year-old Long Bright River actress was handed one of the latter and said, “I would love to play something that’s about a state which deserves a lot of love right now,” referring to Mitchell’s 1971 song “California.”
“Because she wrote a lot of the songs from the Blue album on the dulcimer, and I learned a lot of her stuff from the Blue album when the world stopped,” Seyfried explained of her time during the early days of the COVID pandemic before launching into the song, admitting she was “nervous” to do so.
“Oh, but California/California, I’m coming home/I’m going to see the folks I dig/I’ll even kiss a Sunset pig/California, I’m coming home,” she sang in the chorus, sounding uncannily like Mitchell.