'If you’re a fascist get a Tesla:' Rock legend swipes Trump and Musk with new protest song
Rock legend Neil Young, known for searing protest music that dates to the late 1960s, has a new political ditty to add to his catalog, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Young, who holds dual American-Canadian citizenship, was once part of supergroups Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, interspersed with a prolific solo career.
He debuted a new song that targets Elon Musk and Donald Trump with lyrics that evoke his anti-George H.W. Bush song "Rockin' in the Free World" from 1991.
Young debuted the track, "Let's Roll Again," at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles over the weekend as a "rallying cry" to the American auto industry.
Lyrics included, “Come on Ford, come on GM/ Come on Chrysler, let’s roll again,” and included a plea to "run real clean."
Following a trademark harmonica break, "Young delivered his most biting lyric," according to the Chronicle: “If you’re a fascist, get a Tesla/ It’s electric, it doesn’t matter.”
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“If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom/ Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.”
The article said that "Young, who for years lived on a ranch in Woodside (San Mateo County), has long been an advocate for sustainable automotive technology," the article said.
It continued, "In 2008, he launched Linc Volt Technology to promote retrofitting gas-powered vehicles with clean energy alternatives. That same year, he unveiled a 1959 Lincoln Continental converted to run on electric batteries and a biodiesel generator at San Francisco’s Dreamforce conference. The musician later adapted a Mercedes-Benz and a Hummer to run on used vegetable oil."
Young is scheduled to headline the Glastonbury Festival and launch a European and North American tour this summer.
On his website last month, Young posted, "When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminium [sic] blanket. That’s right folks, if you say anything bad about Trump or his administration, you may be barred from re-entering USA.”