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I really like Young's music but his political posturing and "virtue" signalling has been so annoying since forever. Just the one's I know about is the whole 'S
by 0x737368 5y ago
I really like Young's music but his political posturing and "virtue" signalling has been so annoying since forever.
Just the one's I know about is the whole 'Southern Man' song controversy, then another one is when Trump purchased the rights to play "Rocking in the free world" for announcing his run for presidency and Young first claimed that Trump did it without permission and then when confronted about that statement avoided it like a weasel saying "everybody can use it if they like it", and now this.
If you don't want to be on a platform don't be there, just leave quietly instead of trying to garner attention for yourself by jumping on the hating Rogan bandwagon.
- jafo 5y agoWell I heard Mister Young bitch about him Well I heard ol' Neil put him down Well I hope Neil Young will remember Spotify don't need him around anyhow
- macdaknife 5y agoFive'll get ya ten, old Macky's back in town
- nameless912 5y ago> "virtue" signalling Having opinions != virtue signalling. Some people do in fact believe the views they present in their art. And it's not like Neil Young has recently jumped on the bandwagon, he's been at it for 50+ years!
- 0x737368 5y agoOh yes - though each time his opinions backfired on him he went and did a 180 on them in some way as long as he gets dry out of the water. What an amazing role-model indeed. And you can have your opinions quietly instead of standing on the rooftops and tooting songs in your own name. If people find out that someone, say, does charity work that speaks a lot more powerfully than someone that does a photo-op and then advertises to everyone what a truly generous person there is. So which out of these is having opinions, which is virtue signalling, and to which column does Mr Neil Young apply to?