Barry Manilow Joins Neil Young in Laughable Spotify Battle Over Joe Rogan Podcast

PJ Media ^ | 1/28/2022 | Cameron Arcand

[Signalman]

Barry Manilow is joining rock singer Neil Young in threatening to ditch Spotify over their decision to continue giving Joe Rogan’s podcast a platform despite alleged COVID-19 misinformation.

Young started another stereotypical left-wing movement against dissenting opinions when he referred to the music streaming platform as a “very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID” in a statement posted to his website.

For the record, his website was so outdated it’s called Neil Young Archives, and I was not even able to copy and paste the above quote because of its outdated technology.

“They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” he declared, according to the BBC.

So, to nobody’s surprise, Spotify sided with their money-maker Rogan and Young’s music is now off the service.

“We want all the world’s music and audio content to be available to Spotify users. With that comes great responsibility in balancing both safety for listeners and freedom for creators. We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to Covid since the start of the pandemic,” Spotify said in response, according to The New York Times. “We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify but hope to welcome him back soon.”

Barry Manilow, the “Copacabana” singer, is now following suit, which has earned him both praise and mockery on social media.

[ConservativeMind]

Mandy didn’t send him away, fast enough.

[gattaca]

Peter Frampton as well.

[dforest]

At GITMO they would play a repeat of Manilow over and over to torture the jihadis.

[BenLurkin]

He made it through the rain, and got himself forgotten.

[Ge0ffrey]

Now there’s an unlikely pair.

[liberalh8ter]

Barry Manilow? Oh, that's gonna make everyone change their mind.

[IYAS9YAS]

Barely Man Enough, too? How will Spotify survive?

[rainee]

Lol!

[rktman]

Any word from kenny g yet?

[JonPreston]

[EinNYC]

Barry Manilow—could give a diabetic a sugar overload. Ugh!

[bray]

Where is Cher?

[Sirius Lee]

Does this make Neil Young Barry’s fag hag?

[Signalman]

Young, Manilow, Frampton? I could not care less.
Now if Mark Knopfler (someone with real talent) joins this crowd, I’ll be upset.

[Steely Tom]

But that was 40 years ago, when he used to have a show.

[OKSooner]

This ain’t The Bee?

[Seruzawa]

I doubt you could find 3 has-beens that people could care less about.

[laweeks]

Fairy Manilow is upset? How awful!

[Harpotoo]

That’s really Queer of him to do:-)