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Jan 29, 2022 · (Reuters) - Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell has announced that she will remove her music from Spotify, following the lead of Neil Young in protesting the popular streaming

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Joel W. Hay, PhD's avatar

Ironically Neil Young is one of the biggest supporters of the vaxxx genocide! He is boycotting Spotify because they have the temerity to sponsor Joe Rogan's show. Proves that being a visionary 50 years ago means less than nothing today.

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Stegiel's avatar

Joel W. Hay I do not know if you are familiar with the work of Dave McGowan on the Laurel Canyon Music Scene. Nor if you have read the Cultural Cold War where we learn about CIA money and the Paris Review and even Ramparts magazine and the promotion of Abstract Expression over Hopper in the name of Anti-Communism. In any case my idea is Cowboy Neil was a self made man and a promoted man, and promoted in a phalanx of youth with families from military backgrounds -think Morrison, even Zappa!-and he had feelings in common with generations of alienated youth which were marketed and continue to be. We age. We change. And in the mirror as a youth we do not see our future as we stand in the. way. It seems to me with my wife passing at 81 the childhood of the Atomic Age was raised by cannibals and tried to be human among beasts. It is sad that cultural heroes normalized and bought the bullshit. Some like Eric Clapton now suffer from it. And yet after all men like Neil are not even poetasters but rock stars.

And I still listen to Neil from the olde tymes: https://youtu.be/3Q3j-i7GLr0?t=2

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thinking about that Laurel Canyon scene reminds me of one of my favorites from that era ... Joni Mitchell. I may be wrong, but she is one that appears to have never sold out.

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Bird's avatar

Beautifully written.

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