While the vocalist's tweet wasn't a direct dig at anyone, Disturbed's David Draiman "applauded" Spotify for removing Young's music on his own social media, and said that it was "the right call. Y ou can stick to listening to your podcast and I will stick to listening to Neil Young," he remarked. " Imagine calling yourself a rocker yet siding with some dude who has a podcast over Neil Young. Today, the former Skid Row singer popped back on Twitter to further prove his point. Jasta replied, "C'mon my podcast to discuss, Twitter ain't the place." This other guy is a complete jackass who doesn't give a shit about anybody or anything except himself." Neil Young is doing this because he wants rock 'n' roll to exist and his fans to live. Super lolz."īach directly quoted Jasta's tweet, and said, "Misinformation about the vaccines is everybody's problem. but huge problem with a guy just free thinking. 26, Young made good on his threat to remove his songs from Spotify unless the streaming service agreed to cut ties with controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, who has drawn criticism. Shinedown's Zach Myers replied to Jasta's post, writing, "He doesn’t have a problem with them paying artist crumbs. I don’t know many musicians who actually care deeply about the content of that podcast, but they are aware. Rogan is not your problem. Start your own streaming service where you pay bands more than what Spotify pays, then they’ll care." Spotify paid 100 million for the right to exclusively host Joe Rogan’s podcast. 25) that reads, "Spotify doesn't care Neil. “Soon my music will live on in a better place,” Young wrote, pointing fans toward Amazon and Apple Music.Many musicians have been sharing their sentiments about the subject, including Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta, who wrote a tweet earlier this week (Jan. In the new letter, he takes a detour to mention Spotify’s low streaming quality, calling it an “upside” for his fans that they can to find his extensive back catalogue elsewhere in higher quality. At the time, he launched a streaming hardware device and accompanying music service called Pono designed specifically for high quality audio. Back in 2015, he threatened to remove his music from Spotify and other platforms over complaints that they reduced the quality of his recordings. This isn’t Young’s first time clashing with streaming services. “Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule.” “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 in a letter first reported by Rolling Stone. Young announced the intention to pull his music in a since-deleted open letter to his management team and label. Celebrating De La Soul, With Questlove Spotify’s Ongoing Joe Rogan Problem The controversy over the star podcaster and misinformation raised thorny questions about the streaming service’s. “I sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the SPOTIFY platform and stop supporting SPOTIFY’s deadly misinformation about COVID,” Young wrote, singing off “in the name of truth.” In the post, he notes that Spotify comprises 60 percent of his streaming income globally. These young people believe SPOTIFY would never present grossly unfactual information. “… Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading and false COVID information on SPOTIFY are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth. “I first learned of this problem by reading that 200 plus doctors had joined forces, taking on the dangerous life-threatening COVID falsehoods found in SPOTIFY programming,” he wrote, declining to mention Rogan’s show by name. In an update on his official website, Young explained the thinking behind the decision to pull his music. Neil Young plans to pull his music from Spotify over Joe Rogan COVID misinformation
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