Neil Young: "Rogan or me."

[Mik]

I suspect Neil wants us to get off his lawn too.

[89th]

Neil Old, amirite

[George K]

Hay! Neil!

It's all about the $$$$$.

Who brings more revenue to Spotify?

That's what I thought.

[George K]

Ann Althouse:

"Well, of course, Spotify should side with Joe Rogan. The person who makes an ultimatum like that should lose. It's ridiculous. If that worked, there'd be an obnoxious celebrity throwing his weight around every day.

So much for 'rocking in the free world,' Neil, you big jerk."

[Renauda]

@89th said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

Neil Old, amirite

Yes and he probably feels he has nothing to lose.

[Mik]

'Old man, look at your life....."

[Mik]

@renauda said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

@89th said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

Neil Old, amirite

Yes and he probably feels he has nothing to lose.

I suspect so. But then we all have diminished filters as we get older and I imaginet most of us do not have quite as open-minded (read inexperienced) view of the world as we did when younger.

[George K]

@renauda said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

Yes and he probably feels he has nothing to lose.

I read, somewhere, that he's sold his song catalog. I wonder what control over distribution he retained.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

So much for 'rocking in the free world,' Neil, you big jerk."

She clearly hasn't spent even ten minutes looking into Neil Young.

[Mik]

@aqua-letifer said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

@george-k said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

So much for 'rocking in the free world,' Neil, you big jerk."

She clearly hasn't spent even ten minutes looking into Neil Young.

Kind of like thinking Born In The USA is a pro-American song.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mik said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

She clearly hasn't spent even ten minutes looking into Neil Young.

Kind of like thinking Born In The USA is a pro-American song.

Or Fortunate Son.

[jon-nyc]

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

That would be good for all parties involved.

[Ivorythumper]

[George K]

OK, now this is getting serious.

[Mik]

[bachophile]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/arts/joni-mitchell-neil-young-spotify.html

Joni has now joined Neil.

Honestly I don’t care one way or the other as what’s not on Spotify I can get on Apple Music.

What I would like to see if now an avalanche of classic stars follow suit and see if they can break Spotify’s will to fight. Would be an Interesting social media experiment.

[George K]

@bachophile said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":

Would be an Interesting social media experiment.

Indeed.

Some little part of me says that Spotify has the interest of the artists at heart, but it is the revenue from Rogan that puts food in its belly.

Like you said, I don't care either way, but I'll make some popcorn.

[George K]

Neil has removed the original letter, by the way.

He put up a new one: "https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Spotify-More-Songs-Less-Sound"

He talks about the sound quality of Spotify's streaming, and in the last paragraph, he says,

"I support free speech. I have never been in favor of censorship."

OK then.

[George K]

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/01/frampton-comes-cropper.html

There's interesting stuff about royalties in this story which @Larry might find interesting.