one resilient voice

heard about this earlier this week, thought i'd paste the link--

@ lollapalooza in chicago last weekend, patti smith sang to the "limp little dolls caked in mud"
and distinguished herself as one of the only (please, i hope this is wrong) critical voices in the songwriting spheres of the states...

wherefore the silence, yaa celebrities/artists/poets?
some response, any response
please.