After the gold rush of signing Joe Rogan, Spotify now has to deal with the crop.
The latest difficulty in a response to Spotify's controversial star turn comes from singer and songwriter Neil Young, who says he is extremely unhappy sharing a stage with Rogan. Young wrote in an open letter to his manager and record label (which has since been removed from his website), "I want you to tell Spotify immediately today that I want to take all my music off my platform." Am." "They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both."
Cause? Rogan's Hand in Spreading Vaccine Misinformation As was first reported by Rolling Stone, Young writes: "I'm doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines - potentially people who May be death is being spread by those who believe that. Please take immediate action on this today and keep me informed of the timetable."
Young's manager Frank Gironda confirmed to The Daily Beast that the letter was genuine and that he and the singer were working out what to do next. "It's something that's really important to Neil," Gironda said. "He is deeply disturbed by this propaganda." Gironda said: "We're just trying to figure it out."
Young is not the only one objecting to Rogan's comments in this area. Most recently, an open letter signed by more than 1,000 scientists and medical professionals called on Spotify to implement a "misinformation policy" in response to Rogan's "propaganda of false and socially harmful claims." Rogan's misleading statements include discouraging youth from receiving the vaccine and promoting unproven treatments for COVID-19 such as ivermectin, the letter said.
This isn't the first time Young has objected to his appearance on Spotify. He previously removed his music from the streaming platform because the company's audio quality was too low. "I don't need to devalue my music by the worst quality in broadcast history or any other form of distribution," he said in 2015. That year, Young released his own Pono music player, which focused on high quality audio. , and later tried to switch this hardware scheme to its own streaming service (which is currently discontinued).