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-Great Cultural Revolution

Prissy Neil Young deletes open letter calling for Joe Rogan censorship on Spotify

2022-01-27

By Christina Maas

[ReclaimTheNet] Young had tried to threaten Spotify with pulling out if it didn't censor the world's number one podcast.

This is not the first time Young has asked Spotify to remove his music. In 2019, he removed most of his music after he complained about sound quality. Eventually, he allowed the music back.

This isn’t the first time Young has been out of his depth when making demands. Young also hit the headlines when he attempted to block President Donald Trump from playing "Rockin’ in the Free World" at rallies before realizing that he had no legal power to do so.

Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young, who was big in the 60s and 70s, tried to give streaming platform Spotify an ultimatum; it either bans Joe Rogan or removes his music.

Young sent an open letter to his record label and management team with the ultimatum. He accused Spotify of "spreading fake information about vaccines," for interviewing doctors against vaccine mandates.

"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. "Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule."

"I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform," he continued. "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both."

However, the demands were short lived as Young has quickly deleted the letter.

Young likely realized that he has no grounds to make the demands. Rogan has an exclusive deal with Spotify and Young sold 50% of the rights to his music to a British investment company a year ago.

Young’s open letter comes days after some doctors wrote an open letter to Spotify, calling on the streaming platform to develop a stronger censorship policy. The open letter by the doctors came after the episode on Joe Rogan’s podcast featuring mRNA pioneer Dr. Robert Malone.

Young has only 6 million monthly listeners on the platform and Rogan has over 11 million per episode, averaging 15 episodes per month, with some single episodes thought to be as high as 40 million listeners.

Spotify Takes Down hippy boy Neil Young’s Music After His Joe Rogan Ultimatum

Suddenly he realized, "heh I've got no backers, balls or brains"!

Posted by:Woodrow

#19 Now we have all seen the needle and the damage done.

Yeah, the quarters taped to the tone arm... the horror..

I wonder what 1960s anti-establishment hippie Neil Young would make of this old guy yelling at the damn squirrels to get off his lawn and trust the government.

Posted by: SteveS 2022-01-27 19:34

#18 Snowflake prima donna.

Posted by: JohnQC 2022-01-27 17:19

#17 Rogan is a verbal clickbaiter himself. But that's where the money is made right now. Young is and always was a lefty buffoon.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-27 12:44

#16 Nei: If you don't get of Rogan, I'm taking my ball and going home. Spotify: Your terms are acceptable. There's the door.

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2022-01-27 12:31

#15 He's not a champ, he's a chump.

Glory be, if the owners of the music sue Young for misrepresentation.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-01-27 12:29

#14 none of them have entertained me since they decided to go political.

Posted by: Chris 2022-01-27 12:22

#13 We Are Entertained By Morons

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-27 10:54

#12 ^ Yes. The contradiction and hypocrisy fairly scream, don't they?

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-27 10:48

#11 Is this the same asshole with a bee in his bonnet about Monsanto and "genetically-engineered" crops?

If so, he's got it exactly backward.

Breeding strains of corn is harmless. Inflicting an experimental gene therapy on a population without its consent is Mengelean.

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-27 10:46

#10 Last night I listened to David Bromberg and Jorma Kaukonen on Woodsong Radio via Youtube (Yeah, I know)

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-27 10:43

#9 Kids don't listen to his stuff, and old guys like me can stick with Blue Oyster Cult and King Crimson.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-27 10:41

#8 Who's making more money on Spotify? I wouldn't know but perhaps Old Neil Young doesn't have the same clout that he enjoyed in the 60's and 70's. That'd be embarrassing.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-01-27 10:39

#7 Vaxx zealots and mask zealots will need to be driven into the wilderness before things ever become normal again.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-27 10:37

#6 Now we have all seen the needle and the damage done.
(obscure reference)

Posted by: ed in texas 2022-01-27 10:28

#5 Well I heard Mister Young sing about him
Well I heard ole Neil put him down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
That Joe Rogan don't need him around anyhow

Posted by: Matt 2022-01-27 08:43

#4 Neil Young Sells Catalog Rights to Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis
Hipgnosis founder Merck Mercuriadis, who bought Young’s publishing, promises fans that there will never be a “Burger of Gold” fast food commercial. e didn't have the authority to pull the music anyway.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-01-27 07:18

#3 You’re all just pissing in the wind
You don’t know it but you are

Neil Young, “ Ambulance Blues”

Posted by: Grunter 2022-01-27 05:33

#2 Who?

Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-27 02:06

#1 Apparently Spotify said "Sure thing Neil!" and is removing his junk...err...music.

Which is the perfect way to deal with these kinds of people.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-01-27 00:14

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