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[Karin]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216309566

Star Member babylonsister (168,725 posts)


India Arie, Graham Nash Join Mass Exodus From Spotify

Followed by an article from the Daily Beast.  Mass Exodus?  A handful of old has-been hippies that nobody listens to.  I've never heard of India Arie. 

BeckyDem weighed in with something stupid:

BeckyDem (7,175 posts)

1. Timber.......

I believe the important distinction here w/ Rogan is not that his free speech has been hindered, it is the freedom of those who do not want to be associated with a media platform that spreads deadly lies during a pandemic.

Spotify was fine with Rogan's lies until they realized it could hurt their revenues. That is the ugly side of capitalism or what some would say, the free market, baby.

 

Star Member Deuxcents (4,244 posts)

4. It took one person to take a stand

That is what we need for other issues...for instance..a banned book gets sold off the shelves.

So you love censorship but also hate it.  Got it. 

That's all for the thread.  I just wanted to drag over to show how absurd they are, thinking that Neil Young and whoever that is above matter.  Besides, DUmmies, didn't you see that Neil Young is a homophobe?  He said he wouldn't want any faggot handling the potatoes in the grocery store because of AIDS.  Keep up with the news. 

[Texacon]

I hate to admit this, but I don't know who any of those people are.  Not even Neil Young, and he seems to be the big hitter from what I'm reading.

Well, at least the biggest name of those who are pulling their music.  Never heard of any of them.

KC

[ADsOutburst]

1. Timber.......

I believe the important distinction here w/ Rogan is not that his free speech has been hindered, it is the freedom of those who do not want to be associated with a media platform that spreads deadly lies during a pandemic.

Spotify was fine with Rogan's lies until they realized it could hurt their revenues. That is the ugly side of capitalism or what some would say, the free market, baby.

Wait... They think they're winning on this? I know some media outlet tried to imply that Spotify's stock was crashing from the "mass exodus", but that began before this Rogan controversy.

[67 Rover]

Joni Mitchell has an album cover where she is in Blackface (1977) so not surprised she is a leftest. She joined the request to have her music removed from Spotify.

[freedumb2003b]

I hate to admit this, but I don't know who any of those people are.  Not even Neil Young, and he seems to be the big hitter from what I'm reading.

Well, at least the biggest name of those who are pulling their music.  Never heard of any of them.

KC

He was a member of a group named Buffalo Springfield. Oh, and he got pwned in a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[DLR Pyro]

Joni Mitchell has an album cover where she is in Blackface (1977) so not surprised she is a leftest. She joined the request to have her music removed from Spotify.

She  is not only guilty of cultural appropriation, but also gender appropriation for posing as a black man.

We need to demand Spotify remove all of her work because of her racist and gender thieving past!!

[Texacon]

He was a member of a group named Buffalo Springfield. Oh, and he got pwned in a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

I've heard of Lynyrd Skynyrd.  That is the first name I've recognized!   

I suck at music.  I've listened to a lot of different genres through the years, but I never pay attention to who is performing, and the last couple of decades about all I've listened to has been talk radio when I'm traveling.

KC

[Karin]

Texacon, it was from way back when, 1960's, Crosby Stills Nash and Young.  Nash and Young have pulled out of spotify, and everybody had assumed they were dead.  Hippie protest songs.  Jonie Mitchell also a skeleton.  Neil Young had a dreadful, keening voice that was most unpleasant.  He did a horrible song "Southern Man" which painted all southern people with a racist, murdering broad brush. 

In turn, Lynard Skynard, in "Sweet Home Alabama" sang "well I hope Neil Young will remember......Southern man don't need him around, anyhow." 

Count em, Four old dried husks, a "mass exodus."  According to Daily Beast.   

[Texacon]

Texacon, it was from way back when, 1960's, Crosby Stills Nash and Young.  Nash and Young have pulled out of spotify, and everybody had assumed they were dead.  Hippie protest songs.  Jonie Mitchell also a skeleton.  Neil Young had a dreadful, keening voice that was most unpleasant.  He did a horrible song "Southern Man" which painted all southern people with a racist, murdering broad brush. 

In turn, Lynard Skynard, in "Sweet Home Alabama" sang "well I hope Neil Young will remember......Southern man don't need him around, anyhow." 

Count em, Four old dried husks, a "mass exodus."  According to Daily Beast.   

Thanks for the history lesson!  ^5 to you, chick.

KC

[SVPete]

He was a member of a group named Buffalo Springfield. Oh, and he got pwned in a song by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Neil Young was a member of Buffalo Springfield, but the heart of the group was Stephen Stills. Later Neil Young got added to Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Young had a solo hit with "Southern Man", which basically tarred all Southerners as KKK-grade racists. "Sweet Home Alabama" was Lynyrd Skynyrd's retort. Notice which of the two remains well known, .

Graham Nash was a member of The Hollies, and then of C, S, and N. After C, S, N, and Y, he kind of faded into an obscure corner of the music world, always protesting something and influencing few.

Joni Mitchell was big in the folk music scene, which was never very big in the US music scene. Her biggest hit, probably, was "Big Yellow Taxi", basically a Luddite protest song against modernity.

India Arie, I had to W'pedia. She seems to be almost big in the 21st Century Hip-Hop/R&B world.

Three never-grew-up Hippies and a 40-something almost-big hardly constitute an "exodus".

[Ralph Wiggum]

Neil Young was a member of Buffalo Springfield, but the heart of the group was Stephen Stills. Later Neil Young got added to Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Young had a solo hit with "Southern Man", which basically tarred all Southerners as KKK-grade racists. "Sweet Home Alabama" was Lynyrd Skynyrd's retort. Notice which of the two remains well known, .

Graham Nash was a member of The Hollies, and then of C, S, and N. After C, S, N, and Y, he kind of faded into an obscure corner of the music world, always protesting something and influencing few.

Joni Mitchell was big in the folk music scene, which was never very big in the US music scene. Her biggest hit, probably, was "Big Yellow Taxi", basically a Luddite protest song against modernity.

India Arie, I had to W'pedia. She seems to be almost big in the 21st Century Hip-Hop/R&B world.

Three never-grew-up Hippies and a 40-something almost-big hardly constitute an "exodus".

IIRC, Neil Young has been inducted into the Rock'N Roll Hall of Fame thrice, along with only Eric Clapton.

Young with CSNY, Buffalo Springfield, and solo.  Clapton for The Yardbirds, Cream, and also solo.  Granted I haven't looked that  factoid up in quite a while.

Edit: Neil Young has not been inducted three separate ways, only Clapton has.  I guess CSN didn't always include the "Y".  Sort of like the rule as "Y" is sometimes a vowel.

So this is good, Clapton is anti-mandate and lockdown.

[FunkyZero]

I have a shorter explanation... Neil Young has always been an asshole looking for something to hate, and he can't sing for shi*, never could.

[dandi]

And where did Neil take his music? To freakin' AMAZON! A corporation worse than even Walmart in liberal eyes.

 

[jukin]

Spotify is going to lose tens of dollars as the dried up old husks quit buying music on it. The people that like Young don't even know what Spotify is.