{"id":80771,"date":"2022-01-31T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80771"},"modified":"2022-01-30T09:19:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T15:19:03","slug":"i-wanna-make-some-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=80771","title":{"rendered":"I Wanna Make Some History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week’s kerfuffle between Spotify (and their contract employee, Joe Rogan) and Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Barry Manilow and (reportedly) Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters, may not mark the point <\/em>where the iconoclasm and “rebellion” of popular music fromthe 1950s through the 2000s finally died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it’s certainly a waypoint on populist conservatism’s path to being the real iconoclasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kid Rock wraps himself, crudely and profanely, in the Constitution in a new song aimed at the President, “woke” culture and the cancelers<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armond White reviews it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strongest lyric on Kid Rock\u2019s new single \u201cWe the People\u201d is 235 years old: \u201cIn order to form a more perfect union \/ Do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.\u201d…On the day Kid Rock released his song, rock-music veteran Neil Young publicly threatened Spotify with an ultimatum: Either remove its broadcast of the political commentator and comedian Joe Rogan, or he\u2019d remove his music from its streaming service. It\u2019s enough to make a true rock and roller revolt…In this sudden ideological skirmish, Kid Rock wants to reclaim populism and protest against Young\u2019s imperious assertion of authority and limited expression.<\/p>

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As with most things Kid Rock has done in the past three decades (but<\/a> by no means all<\/a>), light leaving “safe for work” right now won’t reach us for centuries. A radio edit bleeping out the profanity would sound like Morse Code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’ve been warned. Here goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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