Neil Young's sole #1 hit, Heart of Gold - 1972, was half a century ago this year. Joni Mitchell has been less relevant even longer.
I'm not sure when entertainers will ever begin to understand that all we really want from them is for them to entertain us. Write all the protest songs you want and put as many metaphors in your music as you want. If I like it I'll listen and maybe even sing along. Doesn't really matter to me who it is, the last thing I want to hear from any entertainer I'm paying to see perform live is their opinion on anything political. The truly great ones seem to steer clear of any of that overt BS.
~Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson
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