Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are Destroying Free Speech
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, the flood gates burst open this morning and an overwhelming barrage of sickeningly sallow “Big Yellow Taxis’’ came roaring into my google feed. Yes, Joni Mitchell, a Canadian singer-songwriter, has decided to follow in the ill-informed unwise footsteps of Neil Young.
Joni, along with Neil, has chosen to have her music removed from Spotify in what can only be said to be a power play to get more streams. The virtue-signaling between them is so appalling, that it makes me cringe for those who truly care about humanity. These two are disgustingly misguided in their thinking and actions.
Joni and Neil are both 75+ which, I suspect, is why they have forgotten that in their own heyday, the wild and tumultuous 60s and 70s, they adamantly opposed the oppression of human beings by violent governments and corporations.
Joni Mitchell, in 1969, wrote, The Fiddle and the Drum. The song featured on her album, Clouds. The album, ironically, was protest music. She writes:
“You say we have turned/like the enemies you’ve earned/But we can’t remember/All the good things you are…”
