Posted on 03/23/2024 9:52:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Joni Mitchell's music has quietly returned to Spotify after a two-year hiatus.
She made headlines after joining Neil Young's boycott over the music-streaming site's deal to exclusively distribute The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Young issued an ultimatum to the music service, saying: "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both."
The comedian had come under fire for comments regarding COVID-19 and vaccines. "Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives," Mitchell said at the time. "I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue."
Rogan's contract, reportedly worth an estimated $200 million, has ended. The Joe Rogan Experience is now on Apple and Amazon. Young was the first to return to Spotify two weeks ago – and now Mitchell has followed suit.
"Spotify, the No. 1 streaming of low-res music in the world – Spotify where you get less quality than we made – will now be home of my music again," Young confirmed on his website.
Joe Rogan Fires Back at Neil Young
Still, Young didn't exactly sound thrilled about this turn of events: "My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I opposed at Spotify. I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did with Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Rogan fired back at Young over his return.
"His excuse was he said that because all of the platforms are now allowing my disinformation, he's just going back on Spotify too," Rogan said on his podcast. "Great to know you've got some ethics."
Rogan's guest, political commentator James Lindsay, then added: "Well, everybody's doing it these days — disinformation."
Lynyrd Skynyrd said it best:
“Well I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern (or northern) Man don’t need him around anyhow…”
They were young once and were concerned about our young people unwillingly being drafted into the Vietnam War.
We couldn’t point on a globe where Vietnam was.
But the news gave us a daily count of the American war deaths.
People were dying for a cause they didn’t understand.
It was the communist USSR versus the capitalist America.
People were willing to kill or get killed without understanding what the Vietnam War was about.
Our parents told us it was American to fight the Vietnam War.
Many of us didn’t come back home.
There is a monument that lists all the dead in the Vietnam War.
The same thing is happening in Ukraine today.
There are Americans joining the Ukrainians to fight Russia.
They have no idea how corrupt Ukraine is.
They are not political but are willing to place their lives on the line because they are stupid in politics.
In 2014, George Soros took credit for overthrowing Ukraine with the help of the CIA and their hired mercenaries.
https://gab.com/Agitators/posts/109156647153112341
In 1968 Vietnam was attacked by the North Vietnamese communists in the Tet offensive. The North Vietnamese attacked the South in the winter of 1968 and suffered heavy losses. The communists lost 48,000 men, America lost 249 men and the South Vietnam lost 500 men.
https://gab.com/Agitators/posts/109254120578368210
Walter Cronkite: “Well you’ve got a fine story. But I’m not going to use any of it because I’ve been up to Hue. I’ve seen the thousands of bodies up there in mass graves and I’m determined to do all in my power to bring this war to an end as soon as possible.”
People should be worried about paying their bills, their child’s grades, keeping their children away from drugs, protecting their children from sexual predators in school.
The fact that Joni Mitchell and Neil Young’ attacked Spotify only shows their ignorance in how the
Democrats are killing people in regime change wars of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Ukraine.
Excellent!
Well, I heard Mr. Young sing about her
Well, I heard ol’ Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around, anyhow
Certainly NOT free range hippies.
Are they on the CIA payroll?
Joni Mitchell has written some memorable songs. Neither of them can sing.
He really is an absolute tool.
Ahhhhh....the Canadians.
Who?
Musically, both of them suck.
Ahh.. Darn!
“Canadians” was my first thought too. They seem like typical ones.
“They can have Rogan or Young. Not both.”
We’ll, they chose which they wanted, didn’t they.
I think you have that backwards...
Neil Young was a Canadian citizen, then. “Anti-war” was somewhat faddish. It was also an area ripe for exploitation by communist cadre in America. See the Weathermen.
Two of the biggest whiners ever to hit the charts.
“They paved paradise.... waaaah”
“Look at mother nature on the run... waaah”
I’d be helpless helpless helpless
So much for their principles.
Capitalism beats Communism again!
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