Young was also a holdout for a long time, based on his reservations about the service’s sound quality. Early holdouts, such as The Beatles, Prince, and King Crimson have, in recent years, joined the platform’s massive catalog of talent.
The streaming service has built a large audience on the backs of musicians, by offering nearly everything a listener could want for free-or for $9.99 a month without advertisements. Spotify has weathered these controversies in the past, but Young’s threats might represent the opening of a new phase.
His appearance prompted a widely covered open letter signed by hundreds of doctors and health care professionals. Robert Malone, who has repeatedly spread conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 vaccine. Last spring, Rogan suggested that young, healthy people should not get the vaccine, telling one listener, “If you’re a healthy person, and you’re exercising all the time, and you’re young, and you’re eating well, like, I don’t think you need to worry about this.” When Rogan himself contracted the virus in the spring, he claimed he was treating himself with ivermectin, a drug that has become particularly popular among those looking for alternatives to vaccines despite the fact that no health authorities in the United States have approved its use. For Spotify, that was all that really mattered.īut Rogan’s comments on Covid-19 have been particularly controversial. Rogan’s audience was loyal, built-in, and guaranteed to follow him wherever he went. But Spotify was locked in an arms race, trying to gobble up as much real estate in the podcasting world as quickly as possible in an effort to continue growing at a rapid clip. By that point, Rogan had already established a reputation for transphobia and Islamophobia, had compared a Black neighborhood to Planet of the Apes, and hosted, among others, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos. Spotify should have known what it was getting when it signed Joe Rogan to a multiyear, $100 million exclusive contract in May 2020.
Not both.” Young, a polio survivor, is at odds with what is Spotify’s most important exclusive podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, which has increasingly come under heavy criticism for spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and, in particular, vaccines. “I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform,” he continued.
On Monday, Neil Young handed the streaming service Spotify an ultimatum in the form of an open letter.
0 kommentar(er)
