From Amazon's hometown tech mag, GeekWire, January 27:
A Seattle punk-pop group that played this week as the “house band” between periods at a Seattle Kraken game at Climate Pledge Arena won’t be playing again this weekend as previously planned, the band tweeted Friday — along with a clip of a song from its first performance criticizing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
However, an executive with the Seattle Kraken says the decision not to have the band back for two more scheduled performances was unrelated to the song or to the lines about Bezos.
The band Who Is She? shared the video on Twitter on Friday afternoon, two days after playing during the Kraken’s 6-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks. In the video, they’re seen performing on the concourse platform high above one end of the ice rink at Climate Pledge.
The short clip is overlayed with lyrics to a song they called “My My Orca Card,” a Seattle-centric take on the 1999 Le Tigre song “My My Metrocard.” The song takes aim at Bezos, the tech billionaire whose company put the name on the venue where the band was playing.
Oh no, Jeffrey Bezos.
He’s such, a total jerk.
Shut down, all the bookstores.
Billionaires do not work....
....MUCH MORE
Amazon bought the naming rights to the venue in 2020 and decided on Climate Pledge Arena as the appellation.
And here's the story I was originally going for, ahead of tomorrow's report:
Amazon earnings preview: Holiday quarter report will show impact of economic uncertainty
