![]() ![]() While it seems unlikely that this exodus will bring down Spotify, who control 31% of the music streaming market worldwide, stranger things have happened (and imagine what would happen if Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran joined in?) Neil Young – godfather of grunge, veteran of rock – withdrew his music from the streaming service in protest, followed by Joni Mitchell, podcaster Brené Brown, comedian Stewart Lee and a smattering of other musicians. Fast forward to 2022, and he has been accused by experts of spreading vaccine misinformation on his show – not least through an interview with a controversial vaccine scientist and sceptic, Dr Robert Malone, who claimed that the public had been “hypnotised” into following Covid rules. On that note, has there been a bigger cultural conversation starter this week than the beef between Neil Young and Joe Rogan (and by extension a little streaming service called Spotify)? Rogan, a man described by the New York Times as “Oprah for the Creatine-taking set”, sold the rights to his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience to the music/tech giants for $100m in 2020.
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