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Joni Mitchell removes her music from Spotify, joining Neil Young in protest
LA Times ^ | 01/28/2022 | AUGUST BROWN

Posted on 01/29/2022 1:17:15 AM PST by Houserino

Joni Mitchell announced Friday that she will join her friend Neil Young in pulling her music off of Spotify.

Mitchell, 78, said in a statement posted to her website, “I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”

Mitchell, who like Young survived polio as a child, also linked to an open letter signed by hundreds of doctors and medical professionals who said that Spotify’s top podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” promotes “baseless conspiracy theories and has a concerning history of broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; jodi; mitchell; music; spotify
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To: JonPreston

She must’ve had her teeth fixed.


61 posted on 01/29/2022 5:51:42 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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To: Houserino

Both from Canada.


62 posted on 01/29/2022 5:51:42 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I didn’t even know Manilow was even ON Spotify to begin with.

BTW, my sister was a big Spotify fan, It was on, on, on, all the time.

Then she got back into Vinyl.

Now we go “Vinyl Hunting” together at all the flea markets and yard sales, clean ‘em’ spin ‘em, reminisce, enjoy the cover art and liner notes, and fill our homes with the music that involves all of the five senses:

Sight: The Cover Art, Liner Notes, and Lyrics printed out on the inner sleeve, and other oddities of certain cover designs such as the working zipper on “Sticky Fingers”, the Posters folded up inside certain albums, the die-cut jackets of Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones, and the different colored vinyl on some of the newer releases.

Hearing: The wonderful, warm, Analog sound that uses the full frequency spectrum and is not compressed into a teeny-weeny MP3 bandwidth.

Smell: Ah, the smell of fresh vinyl, the stinging pungency of record-cleaning-fluid, the musky undertone of old cardboard, and even the topnote of fresh plastic wrap on new releases, all contribute to the bouquet of record-collecting.

Taste: Well, this is subjective, but modern music sucks. Classic Rock on the original vinyl in good condition (produced on REAL musical instruments) beats the alleged auto-tuned, quantized, sequenced, CRAP that passes for music these days.

and, finally,

Touch: The actual feel of the bass rumbling your kishkes from big Klipsch or Vintage Altec-Lansing Speakers, driven by a Marantz or Harmon-Kardon Amplifier, and the sensation of actually being “inside” the music. Touch is also involved in delicately opening the plastic sleeve with a razor blade, sliding out the inner sleeve, removing the record carefully by its edges, placing it on the turntable, and lowering the needle in the exact right spot so it doesn’t fall off...and then hearing that first note.

Spotify can’t compete with that. And with Spotify, they CHOOSE THE MUSIC for you.

And so, I am going out to shovel mass quanities of snow right now, but first, I think I will put on side two of Abby Road and crank it.


63 posted on 01/29/2022 5:52:45 AM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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To: left that other site

BTW, Neil and Joni are being “Establishment Hacks” by standing up for Big Pharma and the CDC.

They used to be rebels.

Now, not so much.

Just virtue-signaling self-righteous pharissees. Ugh.

I will NOT buy any of THEIR vinyl, even for a buck at Salvation Army.


64 posted on 01/29/2022 5:58:01 AM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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To: Houserino
Brigade of the washed up, irrelevant old hippies?
Say, didn't Manilow deny he'd ever withdrawn his music from Spotify?
65 posted on 01/29/2022 6:11:17 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Houserino

Does anyone else familiar with the industry see that this is all just a publicity stunt to bring “forgotten has beens” back into the limelight for a last ditch effort to make a buck?


66 posted on 01/29/2022 6:11:46 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Houserino

Mostly second generation hippie leftists who “need” to have a cause.
Most be their recognition (royalties)are waning?


67 posted on 01/29/2022 6:13:59 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Openurmind

Actually, that’s why Abba.
They increase their sales of old songs to a new generation.
And the original fans come back.
They don’t even have to perform live. A hologram is enough.
They’ll make millions.
Unlike these mostly outdated washed up performers.


68 posted on 01/29/2022 6:18:52 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Houserino

Since Joni Mitchell isn’t here right now, I will ask everyone else... who in their estimation, have spread more lies about the COVID Pandemic... Joe Rogan, or the Federal Government? I think that is a fair question.


69 posted on 01/29/2022 6:19:23 AM PST by Thistledew
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To: Leep

Yep, absolutely... It is all a marketing con conducted by their managers.


70 posted on 01/29/2022 6:21:35 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: left that other site
BTW, Neil and Joni are being “Establishment Hacks” by standing up for Big Pharma and the CDC.

Neil Young apparently has plenty of Pfizer stock. This is all about feathering his own nest.

71 posted on 01/29/2022 6:23:27 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Houserino

Maybe we can get all the whining commie musicians to cancel themselves?


72 posted on 01/29/2022 6:27:26 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Yep.


73 posted on 01/29/2022 6:27:40 AM PST by left that other site (A Man Without Self-Control is like a City Broken Into and Left Without Walls (Proverbs 25:28))
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To: Leep
Al Capp, the cartoonist who was the author of the Lil Abner comic strip, which was as popular as Peanuts in the 1960s, satirized both Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez with a character, Joanie Phoney, a left wing folk singer.
74 posted on 01/29/2022 6:28:44 AM PST by Wallace T.
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Neil Young owns Pfizer stock?

Not only this, but is the irony of Neil Young, a Canadian citizen, missing the biggest Canadian demonstration in their history not a story in and of itself?

A demonstration of the people, for freedom?

It's true, drug addicts dig needles and injections.

75 posted on 01/29/2022 6:50:52 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Houserino

Well, there is another song, no one cares about, gone from Spotify.


76 posted on 01/29/2022 7:00:22 AM PST by abbastanza
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To: Houserino

Another10 people in nursing homes angry at Spotify over this


77 posted on 01/29/2022 7:13:47 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TV)
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To: Houserino

You’ll know it’s series when Milli Vanilli jumps aboard.


78 posted on 01/29/2022 7:17:48 AM PST by txeagle
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To: Houserino

Well, OK then.


79 posted on 01/29/2022 7:18:40 AM PST by weezel
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To: Houserino

Poor babies can’t handle Joe Rogan? So much for looking at things from both sides, now.


80 posted on 01/29/2022 7:46:21 AM PST by Stosh
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