Posted on 01/26/2022 7:50:45 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Neil Young's discography will no longer be available on Spotify.
The musician, 76, gave the music streaming platform an ultimatum earlier this week between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast. On Wednesday, Spotify confirmed that it would be removing his songs for the time being.
"We want all the world's music and audio content to be available to Spotify users," a spokesperson for Spotify said in a statement to PEOPLE on Wednesday. "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-19 since the start of the pandemic. We regret Neil's decision to remove his music from Spotify, but hope to welcome him back soon."
In an open letter shared to his website on Monday that appears to have since been deleted, Young took a stand against COVID misinformation that he said was being disseminated in Rogan's podcast.
"I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them," he wrote, according to Rolling Stone and Variety. "Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule."
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
I’ll bet he thought they’d choose him. Like a Pokemon.
Old man take a look at my life, back to Canada for you all...
Right about now Neil is lying in a burned-out basement, with the full moon up his #&*&$(#.
🎵 well I hope Neil Young will remember … a Southern man don’t need him around anyhow …
This is only round 1.
Neil will be back with a bunch of other Boomers to say they’ll take down their music as well.
Leftists hate nothing more than free speech.
It appears he has maintained control of his copyrights - most musicians couldn’t do this.
Lyrnrd Skynrd’s famous words, “Hope Neil Young will remember Southern Man don’t need him around anyhow.” In fact i don’t think most of the U.S. does.
Now watch in the next few days; Neil Young issues a Tweet:
“That was NOT ME! I have just fired my new Intern (friend of an In-Law). I LOVE being connected to Spotify and a new generation. I barely know who Joe Hogan is.
Spotify, let’s fix this NOW!!”
When he tries to get it back on, he will have to take a pay cut because he narrowed the available market to his songs because people forgot about him.
“ When he tries to get it back on, he will have to take a pay cut because he narrowed the available market to his songs because people forgot about him.”
I forgot about him years ago.
Looks like kneel’s irrelevance is showing.
Spotify says that like they are proud of it. They should be horsewhipped for it.
Who’s hot ? Who’s not ?
We have our answer
All the world’s music?
Yeah, I bet they have lots of traditional Indian and African tribal tunes.
Yahoo is a horrible “news” source.
Good catch, because I bet no one else bothered to read the excerpt that far.
Why can’t Neil Young be more like that nice younger singer, Alice Cooper.
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