A few days ago, Neil Young threatened to take his music off of Spotify due to the platform’s relationship with Joe Rogan, a threat he later made good on. Since Young first made his thoughts heard, he has gotten a bunch of support online, so much so that it prompted #CancelSpotify to become a trending topic on Twitter yesterday (as Consequence notes). Some of that activity on Twitter came from fellow artists who have Young’s back.
Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz encouraged her followers to take action, sharing a link to a pre-existing anti-Spotify petition and writing, “30,000 artists signed a petition in 2020 outlining why spotify was bad for us (this before daniel ek made massive military industrial complex investments) and if you are just now paying attention thanks to neil young… welcome! sign on!”
30,000 artists signed a petition in 2020 outlining why spotify was bad for us (this before daniel ek made massive military industrial complex investments) and if you are just now paying attention thanks to neil young… welcome! sign on! https://t.co/IWvQHUvK2U
— speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy (@sad13) January 27, 2022
Other artists who weighed in include David Crosby, Peter Frampton, and Sebastian Bach.
Makes me proud of him https://t.co/GUsXg2gwZz
— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) January 25, 2022
Imagine calling yourself a rocker yet siding with some dude who has a podcast over @Neilyoung 😂 you can stick to listening to your podcast and I will stick to listening to Neil Young ✌️
— Sebastian Bach™️ (@sebastianbach) January 27, 2022
Spotify chooses Rogan over Neil Young because they are not in the music business – they are a tech platform, and however they can get people to spend more time on the platform, that’s where they will go. Amazon is not a bookstore. Spotify is not interested in the future of music
— Damon K 🎤 (@dada_drummer) January 27, 2022
Good for you Neil.
I’ve always been an Apple guy for streaming. No Joe Rogan for me thank you! @neilyoung @SpotifyUSA— Peter Frampton (@peterframpton) January 28, 2022
Eve 6, as they tend to do, also came through with a bunch great tweets about the situation. In the most serious of them, they write, “i honestly didn’t think neil young meant to follow through with this and that even if he did there was no way his label would allow it. he meant it man. respect.” Meanwhile, one of the funniest reads, “just ran some numbers and neil young stands to lose 4 dollars over the next twenty years.” Check out Eve 6’s tweets below.
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486383215208067079
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486384915700617220
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486485257142489091
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486485932698062851
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486558737661714432
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486560579644891139
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486576485594845187
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486718654515343368
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486720575359709187
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486742770551197697
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486764791548964864
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486766328002199552
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486770709141417984
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486775428559753221
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1486775853807591427
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. .
