COMMENTARY: 'Spotify has made its decision. And no one should be surprised. A corporation doesn’t have a conscience. It has a cash register.'
Joe Rogan hosted guests on his Spotify podcast who have spread misinformation about COVID-19. Neil Young requested that his music be removed from the streaming service, if it continued to provide a platform for Rogan's most insidious guests.
Let’s start with a couple of unassailable truths: I really like Spotify, and I am a big fan of facts and science. I was urged to subscribe to Spotify, after many years of resisting streaming services, by my music-loving 13-year-old son, Jude, who immediately recognized the service as a kind of immense digital jukebox, one that made the quest to find new music joyfully convenient.
After a lengthy period of using Spotify’s free service, the one with achingly repetitive ads, Jude convinced me two months ago to throw off the shackles of cheapskate-dadism and get the premium subscription, so both of us could stream to our hearts delight. Which we did. The kid introduced me to dozens of artists and hundreds of great songs, most of which I wouldn’t have found without him and our Spotify connection. I was finally able to wean myself from my allegiance to the idea of “owning” music, which took the form of a massive and now useless trove of cassettes and CDs, and transitioned into an ambivalent decade spent amassing a 10,000-song i-Tunes library. And I wasn’t exploiting the artists I loved.
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