Posted on 01/25/2022 10:31:06 AM PST by dennisw
Neil Young, an outspoken advocate for Covid-19 safety and prevention, doesn't want his music to share a home with vaccine misinformation.
In a now-deleted post on his website, Young asked his managers and record label to remove his music from Spotify because he said the music and podcast platform is "spreading fake information about vaccines -- potentially causing death to those who believe this disinformation spread by them." (Rolling Stone originally reported the text of the deleted post.)
"I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform," the 76-year-old said in Monday's post, according to Rolling Stone. "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both."
"Rogan" refers to Joe Rogan, the exceedingly controversial podcast host who has made frequent false and inaccurate claims surrounding vaccines and Covid-19. Earlier this month, a group of more than 250 scientists, doctors and nurses penned an open letter to Spotify condemning the streamer for platforming Rogan and calling on Spotify to warn its listeners about misinformation.
"The Joe Rogan Experience" was Spotify's most popular podcast globally in 2021, according to Variety. It became a Spotify exclusive in 2020, when Rogan signed a multi-year exclusive licensing deal with the streaming service, thought to be worth more than $100 million, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.
CNN has reached out to Young's manager, his publicist at Warner Records and Spotify for comment.
Frank Gironda, Young's manager, did confirm to the Daily Beast that the two had discussed Young's concerns and were "trying to figure this out right now." He said, too, that Young was "very upset about this disinformation."
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Yes, and Would just like to say to him, “f**k off, chicken little “.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
There’s a song there somewhere.
Ouch!
It’s because Eric Clapton went the other way he has to center himself out and gain some traction. Traction for Neil means saying on a tractor and having a needle stuck in his eye… I heard the man pushed his eyes into his brain. Seriously.
I think being with Darryl Hannah has turned whatever was left of his brain to mush.
Nobody even remembers who he is so it doesn’t matter.
He should never stick his head out of that drug jar...
Neil Young has always been highly over-rated.
What a rebel he turned out to be.
Lynyrd Skynyrd showed us the way a long time ago.
“Neil Young, an outspoken advocate for Covid-19 safety and prevention” - This description is debatable.
Remember when Crissy Hynde tried to stop Rush from using her music for his intro?
I think it was her agent who set her straight. She couldn’t afford to cut her limited income by denying this income stream.
And more importantly, the agents (hers and Young’s) don’t want to have THEIR income stream cut!
Ronald Reagan might have been speaking of Young when he said “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
Honestly I’d just like to see Neil Young scrubbed off the face of the earth.
envy + megalomania
+1
I’m 73, don’t listen to his music any way.
But Spotify needs Rogan
What Neil needs these days is Rogaine
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