Your terms are acceptable, Neil.
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Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
Now THAT'S a threat....
Hijinx
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Ask Johnny cash. He was making records and big bucks long after he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, and he never was that great to begin with. If not for Luther Perkins he would have starved, and that goes for his daughter too.
Crabcake42
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Spotify showing signs of cracking, this week expect artists and the public to keep the pressure on!
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Spotify’s Platform Rules and Approach to COVID-19 — Spotify
A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world. To our very core, we believe that listening is everything. Pick almost any issue and you will find people and opinions on either side of it. Personally, there...
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Spotify Takes New Action In Response To Left-Wing Outrage Over Joe Rogan: Report
“We have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly. This, in turn, led to questions around their application to serious issues including COVID-19,” CEO Daniel Ek wrote on Sunday. “Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become clear to me that we have an obligation to do more to provide balance and access to widely-accepted information from the medical and scientific communities guiding us through this unprecedented time. These issues are incredibly complex.”
Ek highlighted the following moves that Spotify will take [emphasis original]:
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has also pushed for social media companies to take action against Rogan as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advocated for during an MSNBC appearance last week.
“We have had rules in place for many years but admittedly, we haven’t been transparent around the policies that guide our content more broadly. This, in turn, led to questions around their application to serious issues including COVID-19,” CEO Daniel Ek wrote on Sunday. “Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s become clear to me that we have an obligation to do more to provide balance and access to widely-accepted information from the medical and scientific communities guiding us through this unprecedented time. These issues are incredibly complex.”
Ek highlighted the following moves that Spotify will take [emphasis original]:
Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has also pushed for social media companies to take action against Rogan as Surgeon General Vivek Murthy advocated for during an MSNBC appearance last week.
Grumpy
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Spotify showing signs of cracking, this week expect artists and the public to keep the pressure on!
Spotify’s Platform Rules and Approach to COVID-19 — Spotify
A decade ago, we created Spotify to enable the work of creators around the world to be heard and enjoyed by listeners around the world. To our very core, we believe that listening is everything. Pick almost any issue and you will find people and opinions on either side of it. Personally, there...
Joni who?
I think she drove a big yellow taxi.
Grumpy
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and put up a parking lot
HemiHauler
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Neil Young Radio back on SiriusXM, according to an e-mail I just received. Might be time for some of you snowflakes to cancel SiriusXM.
Yeah it’s on there… Almost no one is listening and there are plenty of better channels.
UglyBear
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Who?
HemiHauler
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I just don't like the characterization of anything being "banned" here. Nothing is being "banned"; Neil and others have asked to not do business with a particular outlet any longer. They have complied - voluntarily as near as I can tell. I know that Neil did sell off the rights to much of his catalog in the last few years. I don't know what the legal arrangements there were - there are a couple of different types of rights in the music publishing business. But one can assume if that if Neil asked, and Spotify complied, he has the right to have asked. I have no idea if Spotify had an obligation to comply under these agreements, but comply they did.
Everyone has stated the obvious: the typical Spotify consumer has no idea who Neil Young is, so the reality is that this is an ego stroke with little effect on reality. It's what Neil does, he's highly political. Same with Joni and Nils. I guaran-damn-tee you that Taylor Swift will never ask to be removed from Spotify because her typical audience has embraced streaming services and without streaming probably wouldn't have as much exposure. Taylor might be a bad example, now that I think of it, because she has actually been around a while by musician standards. But you get the idea.
But I otherwise agree with you as far as taste in music: there is room for everyone in the marketplace. As I have always said, there are only two genres of music: good music and bad music. I'd like to think that bad music is universally identifiable, but I realize there is some subjectivity there.
Except for Yoko Ono. She is universally bad.
mitzi
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Didn't Taylor Swift have a beef with Spotify at one time? I can't remember what it was, I'll have to look for it.
That's what kills me. Some articles act like he wants to ban or censor Joe Rogan. That's not what happened.
She did but she just shook it off.
SamSpade
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Have you ever heard her sing and think, damn she's got a great set of pipes?
Nope, she half talks through her songs, and on her best day she sounds like your average high school age singer in the school play - if that.
She's pretty and sings catchy tunes, but she has very little singing talent.