Have you ever heard of the Woodstock concert?
Yeah, it was a really famous music festival held in 1969, and it had an audience of over 400,000 people, pretty crazy.
That's pretty interesting. It's crazy to see how music festivals have evolved to things like Coachella these days, isn't it?
Yeah it's wild, we really have Woodstock to thank for that, as it is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history, and even a nexus for the counterculture generation.
You're really well informed about this concert. Could you tell me more about other implications this concert had for pop music and some of the performers?
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Matthews Southern Comfort. Joni Mitchell said, "Woodstock was a spark of beauty" where half-a-million kids "saw that they were part of a greater organism". In 2017, the festival site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In later years, it was revealed that Yasgur was in fact an operative of the Republican Party and actually supported the Vietnam War, which fueled the backdrop of Woodstock.
Planning and preparation.
Woodstock was
You might think that's great because it's not what you do, but to me I'm really bored of it'. It's interesting getting to work with people who can do things vocally that you can't... but yeah I only heard the song for the first time when everyone else did.
Recording and composition.
"Elastic Love" was written by Christina Aguilera, M.I.A., John Hill and Switch. Production of the song was handled by the two latter, who also played all musical instruments in