Posted on 01/26/2022 3:16:46 PM PST by Beave Meister
Spotify is in the process of removing Neil Young’s catalog of music from its service after the artist published — then took down — an open letter with an ultimatum: Deal with the vaccine misinformation coming from Joe Rogan’s podcast, or lose Young’s music.
Two days after the letter was published, Spotify is now in the process of removing Young’s music from the streaming service, a Spotify spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
“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. We regret Neil’s decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon,” the spokesperson told THR.
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Neil Young, who cares? Just a dried up old has been.
He wrote and performed some good songs in the day but that was a long, long time ago.
Neil Young’s seven listeners on spotify will be greatly upset.
And then...a collective silence fell upon the land.
Glad I have originals. Listening to my ‘Everybody Knows this is Nowhere ‘ right now with a nice glass of sweet tea and English shortbread. Love the music...
David Crosby calls Neil Young the most selfish person ever
Neil Young’s agent was just looking for controversy to help sell the whinings of an old filthy hippie.
How will Spotify ever survive this?
This has to be something like the 20th thread about this.
Gone, gone, the damage done
“Artist”....that’s quite a stretch.
I checked the keywords with Neil Young, Joe Rogan, and Spotify and nothing came up regarding Spotify actually removing Neil Youngs music.
Safety? WTH are they talking about? The only thing in danger are your eardrums and sense of nausea.
No brained. Bye dirtbag
I’m pretty sure you’re right about that, I was just speaking in general. Not against you.
“He wrote and performed some good songs...”
I disagree. He’s an over-rated has been. Never liked his music and still don’t.
If he gets 500 streams a day on Spotify that would be a lot. Never understood how this guy was ever popular. Not a very good singer and hugely overrated as a guitarist.
A mature, honorable man would have offered to be interviewed by Joe Rogan to discuss their differences instead of throwing a hissy fit.
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