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No One Cares.<\/a><\/p>\n Question (and answer) O’ The Day<\/p>\n Q: What do Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Susan Sarandon all have in common?<\/p>\n A: They were all very much loved by my parents. Who are dead. And I\u2019m 55, so that should give you some idea of the timeline we are talking about here.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I remember quite clearly the worst New Year\u2019s Eve I ever had. I was home from college and a friend said he was getting some guys together at his parents\u2019 house for dinner, then we would all head to a bar to ring in the new year. Sounded like a plan. All my college friends were in far-off places\u2013so why not? I\u2019ll tell you why not. The entertainment at the bar that night was a Crosby, Stills & Nash cover band. No, you did not misread that. A Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young) cover band.<\/p>\n So on a night where most people were drinking, celebrating, counting down to midnight and trying to get a New Year\u2019s kiss, or maybe even a few phone numbers, I was nursing a warm beer listening to \u201cTeach Your Children,\u201d \u201cHelplessly Hoping,\u201d and \u201cOur House.\u201d It was definitely not Dick Clark\u2019s New Year\u2019s Rockin\u2019 \u00a0Eve. Or even a distant relative of it. This was in the \u201990s and even then, I thought that the music was more appropriate for\u00a0Wavy Gravy\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0funeral than for people born after 1960.<\/p>\n I bring this up because Bloomberg is breathlessly\u00a0reporting<\/a>\u00a0that Spotify is experiencing more problems as the number of artists who are joining Neil Young and pulling their work over Joe Rogan is increasing. Including Young, the artists stand at a shocking grand total of eight. Yes, eight. Unless you count Crosby, Stills & Nash separately. Of that group, three of them are actually podcasters and not musicians, including Donald Trump\u2019s niece, Mary. Whatever will Spotify do? An independent poll of most Spotify users would probably show a collective shrug, followed by the question: \u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, Young and Joni Mitchell are the two big solo names. You are well aware of Young\u2019s\u00a0comments<\/a>\u00a0about AIDS. But also worth noting is Joni Mitchell\u2019s alter-ego Art Nouveau, a black pimp. In fact, Becky Noble at The Political Insider has the\u00a0photos<\/a>. You can see Mitchell in full\u2026uh regalia. A photo apparently even made one of her album covers. Noble even has a quote from Mitchell in an interview\u2013which I guess makes it all okay:<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have the soul of a white woman. I write like a black poet. I frequently write from a black perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n Oh, Joni, Joni, Joni. Here\u2019s a little ditty you can incorporate into a song for your comeback album:<\/p>\n Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.<\/em><\/p>\n Your bitching comes a tad too late when you culturally appropriate.<\/em><\/p>\n It\u2019s on me. You don\u2019t even have to pay me any royalties.<\/p>\n I guess if you are outraged enough in the present, and of course are a famous progressive, what you did in the past does not matter.<\/p>\n And then of course, also straight from the Please Don\u2019t Forget Me Department, there is the small matter of Susan Sarandon\u2019s inexcusable, execrable\u00a0comments<\/a>\u00a0about the funeral services for the members of New York\u2019s Finest.<\/p>\n Q: What do Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Susan Sarandon all have in common?<\/p>\n A: They were all very much loved by my parents. Who are dead. And I\u2019m 55, so that should give you some idea of the timeline we are talking about here.<\/p>\n These people pretty much stopped being relevant some time during the second Reagan administration. And even that may be a bit charitable. But as anyone who has made a pile of money can tell you, job one is to accumulate a bigger pile of money. And of course, a free thinker like Joe Rogan is the perfect vehicle for these music and movie has-beens to remind us that they are supposed to be stars. And now that their dormant activist genes have been re-energized, they are ready to be stars again. As along as you don\u2019t remind them that they used to consider themselves free thinkers. Or that they made a gay slur. Or wore blackface.<\/p>\n Who knows, maybe they can team up for the \u201cWho Are We Again?\u201d Summer Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More Artists Leave Spotify! No One Cares. Question (and answer) O’ The Day Q: What do Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Susan Sarandon all have in common? A: They were all very much loved by my parents. Who are dead. 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