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 where the iconoclasm and “rebellion” of popular music fromthe 1950s through the 2000s finally died.
But it’s certainly a waypoint on populist conservatism’s path to being the real iconoclasts.
Armond White reviews it:
The strongest lyric on Kid Rock’s new single “We the People” is 235 years old: “In order to form a more perfect union / Do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.”…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’d remove his music from its streaming service. It’s enough to make a true rock and roller revolt…In this sudden ideological skirmish, Kid Rock wants to reclaim populism and protest against Young’s imperious assertion of authority and limited expression.
As with most things Kid Rock has done in the past three decades (but by no means all), 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.
You’ve been warned. Here goes.
People who support Biden issuing his vax mandate on his own authority are the same people who call Trump an “authoritarian.”
It’s a crazy world, you either believe in a republic where public policy is discussed & debated by the citizens or you don’t.
I’m not a Kid Rock fan, but why can’t he speak his beliefs riddled with profanity the way the other rappers do?
Kid Rock wraps himself, crudely and profanely, in the Constitution in a new song aimed at the President, “woke” culture and the cancelers
Wraps himself in the Constitution? Oh, and it’s crude and profane? Oh my goodness, heaven forfend… tut-tut-tut.
Help me out here. What exactly is it that’s he saying/singing/rapping about that you actually disagree with?
MP,
If only someone with a website and a penchant for writing snarky responses to other’s idiocy and hypocrisy could classify and codify that particular habit of the Left.
No one will be listening to Rogan in 50 years. people will still be listening to Neil Young’s music. Evidently Young knows that there are things money can’t buy. We need more people like him.
50 years lol. When the last of the boomers dies that will be it for young’s fan base.
Not sure how long Rogan will be listened to, and don’t really care.
This isn’t about Rogan, it’s about censorship.
All across the lake, the languid sounds rat Emery
singingscreeching along with the busted, decrepit old heroin addict and drunk could be heard emanating from the main house…Kinlaw, Young has gone from the Top 10 in the rock charts, to the most requested music at funerals.
lol
I don’t know Fisch, I think the use of the word Fuck was very appropriate in the context. Except for one – instead of saying Let’s Go Brandon, everybody should be back to saying Fuck Joe Biden. Meme will die, but Fuck Joe Biden will live forever.
No one will be listening to Rogan in 50 years.
Doesn’t matter if nobody’s listening in 5 years. That whooshing sound is the point sailing past you.
Evidently Young knows that there are things money can’t buy. We need more people like him.
Newsflash: Popular points of view never need worry about censorship. It’s the unpopular points of view.
Kinlaw wrote: “This isn’t about Rogan, it’s about censorship.”
I really wish that every time this topic comes out, it would be emphasized that the decision by a private company is not censorship, particularly and specifically when the individuals are not barred by the government from expression through other means. Censorship is an act of the government.
If I had a nickel for every time some asshole said something entirely legal was “censorship or unconstitutional” I could buy an island, start my own country, write a constitution for it, and make being this dumb a felony.
Censorship is an act of the government.
Jezuz…he’s a fountain of stupidity.
There are lots of really ignorant people in the world, but none are as enthusiastic about displaying their low IQ’s as leftist rodents.
“Censors seek to limit freedom of thought and expression by restricting spoken words, printed matter, symbolic messages, freedom of association, books, art, music, movies, television programs, and Internet sites. When the government engages in censorship, First Amendment freedoms are implicated.
Private actors — for example, corporations that own radio stations — also can engage in forms of censorship, but this presents no First Amendment implications as no governmental, or state, action is involved.”
Twat — do not confuse your personality disorder as a defense for your comments.
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As Blade pointed out, it can still be Censorship even if the Government isn’t doing it. Private Sector Censorship doesn’t violate the 1st Amendment, unless it’s being done at the behest of the government. Considering the Biden Administration has repeatedly called on private sector companies to censor content producers, there are 1st Amendment concerns to point out.
As to,
“No one will be listening to Rogan in 50 years. people will still be listening to Neil Young’s music.”
Perhaps, and perhaps not. Either way, that’s an Apples to Tennis Balls comparison. It’s easy to listen to old songs that are 3-5 minutes long or long. It’s a completely different thing to listen/watch a 2-4 hour show that was about current events decades ago. Some people do go and watch whole episodes of old shows, but more often they just go watch clips or collections like “Everytime Frank Sinatra was on the Tonight Show.”