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I'm not defending JR (far from it - he's a dickhead) but from a business perspective it was always going to play out like this.
Spotify, like Facebook, is hell-bent on sewing the seeds of its own destruction.
He made the jump to Spotify for money but also due to ever increasing censorship on the YouTube platform that he felt negatively impacted his show.
I don't get why he is a scumbag. He may have a different opinion on things to other people but he is not outwardly evil is he?
We have prize tits like Boris Johnson and co making significantly more damage (to the UK) and constantly lying out of his arse whilst acting above the law.
but yeah look this way, Joe Rogan is bad because he interviews several people that don't agree with the current political landscape
Funny how Russell Brand doesn't get highlighted for doing the same thing eh?
And there's the risk of relying on streaming services.
You don't control what the service choose to do. Owning the physical media means you retain that control.
I'm more bothered that it sets a precedent. I can't imagine anyone anticipated streaming services becoming politicised, such that people would want their content removed because of ideological opposition to someone else who's on there.
Here we all are, dumping our physical media because "everything's available online". What if some of it just disappears, for reasons like this or something similar, and that's it, gone forever?
I know, most things are going to be available somewhere else, be it Apple, Amazon or wherever. But that may not always be the case. And anyway, who wants to subscribe to all of them?
On the one hand it's just one artist, but I have Spotify because I can listen to whatever I want and as soon as that has holes in it I question the value of having the service.
Interestingly Joe Rogan is on YouTube, but Neil Young hasn't asked to be removed from YT Music.
Joe Rogan is a difficult one. On the one hand he's a brilliant interviewer who gets really interesting stuff out of people and allows interviews to go on as long as they need to. His interview with James Hetfield where they mostly talked about beekeeping and hunting was fascinating. I also really like that he doesn't shy away from having controversial people on the show. I did agree with him on for example Rosanne that though she was totally out of order with the things she said, she should have some opportunity to do an interview and give her side of the story.
Where I think it falls down is that he lacks the rigour and intellect when he gets scientists or doctors on so if they start pedaling a conspiracy theory he ends up saying "Wow, that's interesting" rather than tearing flimsy arguments down. His view would be "Hear what they have to say and make your own mind up", but that's very hard for a lot of people to do and being on the show seems like an endorsement for potentially aberant views.
So he can get in the sea.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
But then I have been using it for over a decade and I don't listen to a vast range of musical genres - the playlists tend to be stoner metal, traditional old metal, modern/progressive metal, '80s hair metal... you get the idea.
I did listen to an album by a Swedish band called Sator the other day, and when it got to the end it played me stuff by a load of Swedish-language punk'n'roll bands, which was different.
I do not know this Rogan bloke's work, but what I have heard about it doesn't sound good. What I've read here makes him come across as being symptomatic of many of the ills of our age.
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I know which I'd back over the long term, but presumably Spotify have this all priced up, and decided edgy clickbait yammering is hot right now.
Ive just told the kids I’m cancelling our family Spotify and they are fuming - turns out they both love Rogan whereas I have about 20 Neil Young Albums on vinyl .
Could be a tricky weekend chez nous
But shareholders rarely care about what happens in 5 years, particularly if they're staring down the barrel of a decision that will have financial consequences in the next 18 months.
Are you cancelling over Rogan, or Neil Young, or just cancelling anyway?