Chris Willman Music WriterCounterculture revivalism: it’s not just about vinyl after all. Principles in music, as it turns out, is another remnant of that era that’s experiencing a comeback, thanks to Neil Young being re-elevated by many to hero status for taking an influential stand.
Nice to see you again, personal-integrity-at-the-cost-of-pocketbook-lining! Take off your dusty sandals and stay a while. (You say Joni Mitchell is coming over later?
Sounds like a party.)After establishing early on what kind of peaks protest music could take, Young has undertaken enough crusades over the ensuing decades that never caught on with his public that there is probably a dictionary somewhere with his picture next to the word “quixotic.” But no one’s calling him Don Quixote right now.
He went tilting at windmills, again, and this time, it was the windmill that tilted. Was the damage he did to Spotify (or to Joe Rogan, or to the whole idea of corporations being responsible for what they pay for) lasting, or just a blip?
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