Neil Young encouraged workers at Spotify to quit their jobs after pulling his music from the platform last month over a dispute regarding podcaster Joe Rogan.
In a message posted to his website, Young said Spotify CEO Daniel Ek was the “big problem” with Spotify and encouraged its workers to leave the company.
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“Get out of that place before it eats up your soul. The only goals stated by EK are about numbers — not art, not creativity,” Young wrote.
The singer, known for such hits as “Heart of Gold” and “Harvest Moon,” also told musicians and creators that there must be “a better place” for their art than Spotify.
On Jan. 26, his record label, Warner Music Group’s Warner Records, confirmed that it made the request to remove his content from the platform after Young wrote in a now-deleted message on his website that he had given Spotify an ultimatum: to choose him or Rogan, writing that Spotify had a “responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform,” according to the New York Times.
Some have followed Young in pulling content from Spotify in protest, including Joni Mitchell.
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Ek assured employees in a memo obtained by the Hollywood Reporter on Sunday that they would not be removing Rogan’s content amid backlash over his discussions about COVID-19 vaccines and previous use of racial slurs, several episodes of which he removed himself. “We should have clear lines around content and take action when they are crossed, but canceling voices is a slippery slope,” Ek wrote.
Rogan received a shoutout from former President Donald Trump in a statement issued by his Save America PAC on Monday night.
“Joe Rogan is an interesting and popular guy, but he’s got to stop apologizing to the Fake News and Radical Left maniacs and lunatics. How many ways can you say you’re sorry? Joe, just go about what you do so well and don’t let them make you look weak and frightened,” Trump said. “That’s not you and it never will be!”
