Spotify CEO Daniel Ek confirmed that Rogan chose to remove multiple episodes of his popular podcast from the streaming service after the company's leadership discussed his use of "racially insensitive language," according to a memo sent to employees. Some other artists joined the boycott, but the backlash grew soon after when a compilation video of Rogan using a racial slur on numerous past episodes began circulating on social media. In January, rock legend Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify over objections to false claims about COVID-19 vaccines on Rogan's popular podcast. This has put pressure on Spotify, the music streaming service that signed the comedian to an exclusivity deal in 2020. Spotify plays the artists’s music at 5% of its quality and charges you like it was the real thing.Joe Rogan and his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, are at the center of growing concerns over COVID-19 misinformation and the host's use of racial slurs in dozens of episodes. “If you support Spotify, you are destroying an art form. I am happy and proud to stand in solidarity with the front line health care workers who risk their lives every day to help others.”Įlsewhere in the letter, Young criticized Spotify for reducing the quality of their sound files “down to 5% of the music’s content.” “Amazon, Apple Music, and Qobuz deliver up to 100% of the music today and it sounds a lot better than the shitty, degraded and neutered sound of Spotify,” he writes. Private companies have the right to choose what they profit from, just as I can choose not to have my music support a platform that disseminates harmful information. “I have never been in favor of censorship.
In a new letter on The Neil Young Archives, he responds to that line of attack. But some critics, most notably in the anti-vaccine crowd, have accused him of somehow trying to censor Rogan.
Neil Young’s decision to remove his music from Spotify due to the persistent stream of misinformation about vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience has earned the singer more attention that he’s received in years.
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