I make no bones about the fact that I’m not a fan of Spotify.When Eminem made a surprise appearance on last October’s BET Hip-Hop Awards to freestyle a long anti-Donald Trump rant, the performance was surprising for a number of reasons. The latest news sees Neil Young (and others) pulling their music from the streaming service over spreading fake information about vaccines - potentially causing death to those who believe this disinformation spread by them according to a statement by Young. Joe Rogan, a college dropout turned standup comic turned color commentator turned Podcaster, was paid $100M by Spotify to host his podcast on their platform so it should come as no surprise that Spotify chose to protect their investment and remove Young’s catalog from their music streaming service. Spotify, which was co-founded by Daniel Ek, a man who traded his moral compass as a child for a better deal, has also come under criticism for investing 100M euro in Helsing, a defense company developing artificial intelligence to support military operations in battlefield assessment operations, reports Mixmag.
The CEO has given €100m, that he’s leeched from artists over the years, to a military company using AI weaponry. If I had the power to pull my music off those platforms I would. I’ve never paid Spotify a penny, which is about 1000x more than artists receive from the streaming service when someone listens to their music, because I don’t like their business model. Spotify’s free tier devalued music and never lived up to Ek’s elevator pitch that advertising income would be used to fairly compensate musicians. If you believe that, I have an NFT to sell you.Īnd then there’s this nugget of greed wisdom from Ek explaining how musicians need to operate in this future landscape: #Spotify hifi september free#
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