{"id":470262,"date":"2026-05-27T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470262\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:31:09","slug":"joan-baez-is-frustrated-by-todays-biggest-pop-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470262\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Baez Is Frustrated by Today\u2019s Biggest Pop Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/470c50e0aa63cbb61a6dd9c53b86d2fe60-joanbaez.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmpoe732b00200idkcl9l8e5o@published\" data-word-count=\"201\">Without naming names but easy enough to deduce, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/joan-baez-twilight-hozier-interview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joan Baez<\/a> has let her disappointment known about the morals of some of the most popular women in the music industry. Appearing on the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/lemonada.lnk.to\/wiserthanmePR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">episode<\/a> of Wiser Than Me With Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the singer-songwriter \u2014 not one to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/what-joan-baez-says-about-bob-dylan-relationship-today.html#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tolerate a heap of bullshit<\/a> \u2014 was asked about the pattern of artists staying silent on the current assault on our democracy, something Baez refused to do, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/what-joan-baez-says-about-bob-dylan-relationship-today.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famously<\/a>, since the start of her own career 60 years ago. \u201cI understand where they\u2019re coming from,\u201d Baez responded. \u201cThe young people right now, some are writing amazing stuff. A few are willing to speak out.\u201d She cites the diamond duo of Brandi Carlile and her \u201cpal\u201d Maggie Rogers as those putting in good advocacy work, the latter of whom was \u201cfront and center on the stage at a rally against ICE\u201d just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWeNTnZEeUx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last month<\/a>. The rest, though, are rust to her. \u201cI sort of cock my head at these stadiums filled with brilliant young women songwriters, and why can\u2019t they just take that little step?\u201d Baez asked. \u201cBecause they\u2019re already richer than God, you know, most of them. So, that little step.\u201d Might anyone try it?<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images Without naming names but easy enough to deduce, Joan Baez has let her disappointment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,182769,203104,278,30294],"class_list":["post-470262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-joan-baez","tag-listen-up","tag-music","tag-pop-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}