Neil Young: "Rogan or me."
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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.
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@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.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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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.
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https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/01/frampton-comes-cropper.html
There's interesting stuff about royalties in this story which @Larry might find interesting.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@george-k said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/01/frampton-comes-cropper.html
There's interesting stuff about royalties in this story which @Larry might find interesting.
That's why I always preferred to be in the background, and work for the suits instead of the artists themselves. Artists that aren't touring, or writing their own songs better love being famous, because that's their biggest reward. I'd rather have just a piece of the writer royalties and no one ever know who I am than to be famous s a performer of other people's songs.
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@george-k said in Neil Young: "Rogan or me.":
@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.
Spotify isn't the one who determined how royalties work, or how a given artist has structured his business. As for Neil Young, he should be grateful he ever made a dime in his life. Same for Frampton. Other than "do you feel" where he introduced the public to the wonders of the Voice Box, he didn't have much. If someone who is still getting airplay pulled this stunt Spotify's reaction might be different. But Young and Frampton??? Nah...
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So Mitchell and Young were fine with sharing a platform with sex traffickers, sexual predators, domestic abusers, and more... But somebody that recommended taking a relatively safe drug that has conflicting reports on efficacy is a bridge too far for them?
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DON’T let them eat cake.
- RFK Jr
