{"id":36453,"date":"2022-01-28T17:38:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=36453"},"modified":"2022-01-28T17:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:38:05","slug":"neil-young-doubles-down-on-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=36453","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young doubles down on stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. <a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=36449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I recently posted a story about Neil Young<\/a> demanding that Spotify kick Joe Rogan off their platform for not toeing the Woke progressive line on the Fauci Chinese made biological warfare agent. (That would be the coronavirus) The results of his demands didn\u2019t quite go the way he expected. Spotify canceled Young and pulled his music off their platform faster then you could say \u201cBye Now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/33\/fe\/70\/33fe7036872c44ca13487cdda3140d47.jpg?resize=393%2C258&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"393\" height=\"258\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now this epic failure is now doubling down on stupid and trying to ruin other musicians by getting them to pull their music from the platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/27\/neil-young-asks-artists-to-join-his-anti-spotify-crusade-after-joe-rogan-ultimatum-failed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Here are the details from Breitbart<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Left-wing rocker Neil Young is now pushing for other artists to pull their music from Spotify, calling the audio streaming service a \u201cdamaging force\u201d that is causing \u201c24 year old\u2019s\u201d to end up on \u201cthe wrong side of the truth.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/fb\/7f\/4b\/fb7f4beea9787acd0fe3a770ffd695bb.jpg?resize=292%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"292\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To refresh your memory, Joe Rogan recently closed a deal with Spotify to the tune of $100 million dollars. I have no idea what Neil Young got, however I suspect it\u2019s significantly less. Spotify looked at the bottom line and responded:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Well...................Bye.&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PVrEwCa8nSA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Young\u2019s call comes after Spotify said it would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/26\/spotify-to-remove-neil-young-music-after-he-demanded-they-cancel-joe-rogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pull<\/a>\u00a0the singer\u2019s music from its platform following his demand that the company either\u00a0remove his music or blacklist Joe Rogan and his popular podcast. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Which Spotify did. Of course Neil Young, who is a typical Progressive Liberal Moonbat, wasn\u2019t satisfied with being removed from the platform. Now the Anti-1<sup>st<\/sup> Amendment Fascist who hates freedom of speech is demanding that others leave the platform if he doesn\u2019t get what he, Neil Young, wants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>On Wednesday, Young continued his attacks against Spotify on his <a href=\"https:\/\/neilyoungarchives.com\/news\/1\/article?id=Spotify-In-The-Name-Of-Truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, claiming that the company \u201chas recently become a very damaging force,\u201d and urged others to join him in removing their music from the platform.\u00a0\u201cI sincerely hope that other artists and record companies will move off the Spotify platform and stop supporting Spotify\u2019s deadly misinformation about Covid.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/ff\/55\/69\/ff55692ab068d7f13da67dded8f329a2.jpg?resize=334%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"334\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201c<b>Most of the listeners hearing the unfactual, misleading and false COVID information on SPOTIFY are 24 years old, impressionable and easy to swing to the wrong side of the truth,\u201d the singer wrote. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18582\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll-292x300.jpg?resize=292%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll.jpg?resize=292%2C300&amp;ssl=1 292w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eye-roll.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And who decides what the \u201cTruth\u201d is? You? I don\u2019t think so. Neil Young is a flaming leftist who, bluntly, hates everything about the United States. The very fact that he considers 24 year old\u2019s to be to stupid to to make their own decisions tells me that he should be put under a conservator-ship. I understand the ones that used to handle Brittany Spears are available now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Spotify represents 60 percent of the streaming of his music to listeners around the world, added Young, who went on to claim that he was \u201closing 60% of my world wide streaming income in the name of Truth.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/24\/06\/27\/240627cc0e92dfd23f8e1161d04a29a1.png?resize=350%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I would love to see what the actual numbers of downloads and streaming connections this doofus actually had, especially against what Rogan has and what other artists who are more relevant, (And entertaining), have. As to his loss of income, I understand that Young no longer owns his own portfolio. I wonder if his buyers are happy with the loss?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Young also thanked Warner Brothers for standing with him and \u201ctaking the hit.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Did he ask them beforehand or did he just decide on his own to cut off their money?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><b>Before the removal, Young had 2.4 million followers and over six million monthly listeners on Spotify, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/neil-youngs-music-is-being-taken-down-by-spotify-after-ultimatum-over-joe-rogan-11643230104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by <\/b><em><b>the Wall Street Journal<\/b><\/em><b>. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wow, that many? I thought it would be in the high single digits. Of course, Rogan has significantly more followers. I believe I read somewhere that he has at least 11 million followers and his listener numbers are significantly higher than that. That should tell you who Spotify\u2019s accountants consider to be more valuable. As for Neil Young? 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