Joni Mitchell, a longtime friend and occasional collaborator of Neil Young, announced she is standing in solidarity with her fellow Canadian and is pulling her music from Spotify in protest of the vaccine misinformation being broadcast on The Joe Rogan Experience:
I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify. Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.
Mitchell's announcement comes after a statement of support by Peter Frampton (whose music streams only on Apple) and a false alarm with Barry Manilow becoming the first artist to join Young in his cause.
It is fitting that they would do this given that both Young and Mitchell were afflicted with polio during their childhoods. They were part of a generation which understood the value of vaccines.
The question remains is will musicians who have never had polio be prepared to follow suit. Or will this be the last waltz against vaccine misinformation?
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