Few things are sadder to witness than the spectacle of an aging hippie making a fool of himself.
The aging hippie in question this time is acclaimed singer-songwriter Neil Young, who, back in 2022, threw a tantrum when Spotify wouldn’t censor Joe Rogan for “COVID misinformation,” taking his ball to other streaming platforms.
Now, it seems, Young is realizing what little cachet his influence actually has among the youth and his typical audience of baby boomers, and has come crawling back to that dastardly streaming platform.
The famously liberal Young first announced the change Tuesday on his website, the Neil Young Archives (whose design seems permanently stuck in 1999).
In that snarky statement, he explains that, since other platforms like Apple Music and Amazon Music, in his words, “started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at SPOTIFY,” he is reconsidering his initial anti-Spotify stance.
Entertainers should stay out of politics. I don’t care about their opinion, I will form my own without their petty advice.