‘Very Upset’ Neil Young Wants His Music Off Spotify Over Joe Rogan Vax MisinfoĪ collective amnesia has set in amongst progressives regarding the left’s past pandering to the anti-biotechnology movement. Young’s anti-GMO rhetoric helped fuel a narrative that made it easy to spread fear and distrust about COVID vaccines, most of which used novel biotechnology methods and some of which use genetic engineering. This is the same Neil Young who in 2015 released an entire album, The Monsanto Years, that’s wall-to-wall songs from an anti-biotechnology point of view. Critics have argued Spotify is culpable when Rogan casts doubts on vaccines, features vax-skeptical guests, or touts unproven COVID medications to his millions of listeners.įor his stance, Young is basking in praise as a principled musician willing to sacrifice his own streaming revenue in the name of science, technological progress, and public health. Spotify purchased the rights to stream the The Joe Rogan Experience in 2020 for $100 million. In keeping with his career-long tradition of performative activism, Neil Young demanded in a (since-deleted) open letter on his website that Spotify either remove his music or Joe Rogan’s podcast from its service-in the name of quelling COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
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