Use Your Voice
The folk singer appeared on Julia Louis-Dreyfus' podcast to discuss her career and her ongoing activism
Joan Baez said she wishes modern-day pop musicians would use their platforms to speak up about political and social issues.
During an interview on the podcast Wiser Than Me With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, host Julia Louis-Dreyfus asked Baez about her feelings on younger artists who haven’t voiced concerns about the abuses of the Trump administration. “There’s a whole generation of really talented artists who are quite silent about the current assault on democracy,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “Do you find that unbelievably frustrating or do you understand, perhaps, where those artists are coming from?”
“I think I understand where they’re coming from,” Baez replied. “It’s revealing that the one song that’s used in all of these demonstrations is ‘The Times They Are a-Changin.’ The level of that writing from back then hasn’t been approached. No one has approached it. You can’t summon that up, I don’t think.”
