“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. “As an unexpected bonus, I sound better everywhere else,” he wrote.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. The artist, who has long criticized audio quality on streaming services, and on Spotify in particular, closed with one last dig.
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.”
I have never been in favor of censorship. “When I left Spotify, I felt better,” Young wrote on his website today. Its list of side effects is long.) Rogan has also hosted a variety of conspiracy theorists (including Alex Jones), has given voice to anti-trans views, and has falsely claimed that “left-wing people” started forest fires in the West. ( Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug and is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat or prevent COVID. He has repeatedly urged his younger listeners not to get vaccinated and has touted ivermectin as a COVID treatment. Rogan, the podcaster, UFC color commentator, and former actor, is no stranger to controversy. Further Reading The anonymous meta-analysis that’s convincing people to use ivermectinThe brouhaha can be traced back to 2020, when Spotify reportedly paid more than $100 million to obtain an exclusive license to Joe Rogan’s podcast and its archives.
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