Complaints against bloodless businessmen are hardly new. Spotify didn’t sign him for his talent or care at all about his impact-good or ill-on the world with a heartless, almost video-game sensibility, they signed him to take market share from Apple and Google (and Pandora, I guess). In the context of the devaluation of so many artists’ work, the backing of Rogan feels like a particularly nihilistic move. Many would gladly follow Neil Young off the platform if they could afford it and it didn’t mean severing connections to people who want to hear their music. I don’t know many musicians who actually care deeply about the content of that podcast, but they are aware of the pitiful amounts-in most cases!-that come their way from Spotify. “Spotify paid $100 million for the right to exclusively host Joe Rogan’s podcast. Not everyone is able to take steps like this which is all the more reason that platforms like Spotify must be more responsible and accountable for the content they are obligated to moderate for the good of the public at large.” - Graham NashĪ post shared by indiaarie Fire’s Will Butler It should also be acknowledged that many younger musicians, and many musicians of all ages, rely on platforms like this to gain exposure to a wider audience and share their music with the world. In this case, in a way that could cost people their lives. Likewise there is a difference between misinformation, in which one is unaware that what is being said is false, versus disinformation which is knowingly false and intended to mislead and sway pubic opinion. There is a difference between being open to varying viewpoints on a matter and knowingly spreading false information which some 270 medical professionals have derided not only false but dangerous. “Having heard the Covid disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify, I completely agree with and support my friend, Neil Young. Keep on rocking in the free world, Neil.” - Winston Marshall The Young Folks: Days later, Young’s music was off the platform, though you can still stream his songs on Apple (ignore their forced Uyghur labor in Xinjiang) and on Amazon (but don’t read about the company’s infamous working conditions in James Bloodworth’s book “Hired.”) Displeased by The Joe Rogan Experience’s Covidian contents, Young demanded that Spotify remove Rogan’s podcast-or remove him. “Last week, Canadian-American rock god Neil Young made a clarion call against free speech.
I may not agree with everything or his guests say, but they’re entitled to have the forum to say it. Below, check out who’s on Rogan’s side, and who’d rather keep rockin’ in a world free of Spotify.ĭavid I applaud you and for making the RIGHT call, preserving #FreeSpeech and not capitulating to the mob. Here’s a roundup of some responses from both camps in the Spotify-versus-Young controversy.
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