Crosby, Stills &. Nash give up their virtue-signaling Spotify protest of Joe Rogan

"Whaaa whaaa wee ooo, California"

The old singers Crosby, Stills and Nash returned to Spotify ending a five-month protest of podcaster Joe Rogan. The group were in short-term solidarity with ex-band member Neil Young because the falsetto singing Canadian was upset with Rogan for his assessment of COVID-19 that disagreed with Young's, and this upset him so much that he gave the Sweden-based streaming company the ultimatum: "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both." This was written to Spotify's parent company, Warner Records.

They chose Rogan over the Canadian has-been. Money talks, falsetto squawks.

So Young's buddies pulled their library of songs off the streaming platform while Rogan continued to rake in the dough faster than an omicron spread. Now the Geritol geriatrics have returned to Spotify and pledged that they will donate their earnings to charities aiding those infected with COVID-19, according to Billboard. Hopefully they won't "pull an Amber Heard" and just pledge without the donating part.

Joe Rogan, who signed a $200 million exclusive licensing agreement with Spotify in May 2020 is one of Spotify’s most listened-to podcasts, with an estimated audience of about 11 million frequent listeners.

Soon after Young had his hissy-fit and removed his falsetto singing off Spotify, his former bandmates David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash released a statement in February which read: “We support Neil and we agree with him that there is dangerous disinformation being aired on Spotify’s Joe Rogan podcast.”

“While we always value alternate points of view, knowingly spreading disinformation during this global pandemic has deadly consequences,” the band’s statement read at a time when people knew as much about COVID-19 as barbers knew about performing heart surgery in 1850.

“Until real action is taken to show that a concern for humanity must be balanced with commerce, we don’t want our music — or the music we made together — to be on the same platform,” they virtue signaled, as a ploy to somehow regain a modicum of relevance.

"Hello cowgirl in the sand"

Spotify agreed to take down Young’s falsetto singing, saying in a statement: “We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators.”

Like the everything bagel, we now live in a world of everything politics.

The company added: “We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon.”In late January, Neil Young ordered his record company, Falsetto Rocks, to pull his library off of Spotify, to which people of good taste thanked him, or possibly her--you can't tell by the voice.

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Other old singers including Joni Mitchell and Doofling Danson also pulled their music from Spotify. Danson was best known for "I'll Just Be Your Clown If There's No One Around, I'll Just Be Your Fool If It Makes Me Look Cool."

So now that the boys in the band are returning to Spotify, we all look forward to hearing their next hit, "Hang Up The Telephone And Turn On The Record Player, Momma."

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