Music legend Neil Young has debuted a new song taking aim at Elon Musk.
The Canadian-American singer was performing with his new band, Chrome Hearts, at the Autism Speaks’ Light Up the Blues Concert on Saturday when he first performed his new anthem apparently entitled Let’s Roll Again, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
It started with a call on American car manufacturers Ford, General Motors and Chrysler to get back in the game and ‘build us something that won’t kill our kids, runs real clean,’ the Daily Beast reports.
The song also acknowledges China‘s lead in clean vehicle production.
‘Over in China/ They’re way ahead/ That’s hard to swallow,’ Young intones, before taking direct aim at the Tesla CEO.
‘If you’re a fascist get a Tesla,’ he sang, apparently bemoaning Musk’s role in the Trump administration. ‘It’s electric, it doesn’t matter.’
The song then ends with another jab: ‘If you’re a Democrat, taste your freedom/ Get whatever you want, taste your freedom.’
The 79-year-old singer-songwriter has long championed clean-energy vehicles – and has also long been a critic of President Donald Trump.
Music icon Neil Young debuted a new song taking aim at Elon Musk over the weekend
For his part, Musk has not yet responded to Young’s new song
In 2008, he launched Linc Volt Technology to promote retrofitting gas-powered vehicles with clean energy alternatives, the Chronicle reports.
That same year, he also unveiled a 1959 Lincoln Continental he converted to run on batteries and a biodiesel generator at San Francisco’s Dreamforce Conference.
Young later adapted a Mercedes-Benz and a Hummer to run on vegetable oil.
He has also been an outspoken critic of the president, slamming his use of his Rockin’ in the Free World on the campaign trail in 2020 and suing Trump for the use of the song.
In the years since, Young has derided Trump as the ‘worst president in history’ and ‘a disgrace to my country.’
More recently, the Canadian-born singer expressed his concerns that he would not be allowed back into the country following his upcoming European tour.
‘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 aluminum blanket,’ Young wrote on his website earlier this month.
He continued: ‘That is happening all the time now. Countries have new advice for those returning to America. You can read about it at the CANADA Desk. If I come back from Europe and am barred, can’t play my USA tour, all of the folks who bought tickets will not be able to come to a concert by me.’
The 79-year-old singer-songwriter has long been a critic of President Donald Trump
His new song apparently bemoaned Musk’s role in the Trump administration, calling for ‘fascists’ to buy Teslas
‘That’s right folks, if you say anything bad about Trump or his administration, you may be barred from re-entering USA,’ he went on.
‘If you are Canadian. If you are a dual citizen like me, who knows? We’ll all find that out together.’
Young characterized the situation as a threat to freedom of speech.
‘If the fact that I think Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of our great country could stop me from coming back, what does that say for Freedom? I love America and its people and its music and its culture. … Remember Freedom of Speech?’
The rocker went on: ‘By these latest actions of our US government, it seems that those who speak out freely with their own opinions are now vulnerable to a non-existent Trump law. Then it seems to me that if you voted for Kamala Harris over Trump, that makes it possible for you to go to jail or be detained, punished in some way for not showing allegiance to what? How spineless is that?’
‘Trump is not be able to stand up to anyone who does not agree with his ideas? Remember, all months have 30 days.’
He concluded: ‘One country, indivisible, with Liberty and Freedom for all. Remember that? I do.’
Daryl Hannah claimed that immigration officials tried to sabotage Young’s application for US citizenship back in 2019, which was under the first Trump administration
It now appears that the animosity goes both ways – as Young’s wife, Daryl Hannah, claimed Trump tried to prevent him from getting US citizenship during his first term in office.
Young was born in Toronto and entered the US in 1966 without a visa before he acquired a green card in 1970.
He was going through the process of becoming a citizen in 2019, and claimed interviewers were heavily concerned about his past marijuana use.
Hannah condemned what Young had to go through in a recent interview with BBC.
‘They tried to every trick in the book to mess him up, and made him keep coming back to be re-interviewed and re-interviewed. It’s ridiculous [because] he’s been living in America and paying taxes here since he was in his 20s,’ Hannah said.
But Young ultimately gained his US citizenship in January 2020, posting a photo on Instagram of himself giving an army salute next to the American flag.
He also made his political affiliations clear by standing in front of a sign that read, ‘Democrats register to vote here.’
For his part, Musk has not yet responded to Young’s new song.
