Neil Young: it’s time to SHUT UP

Neil Young, a message for you. It's time to shut up now. I don't think in the last 16 years of being an entrepreneur or a creator I've ever publicly made a video about someone else that I can recall. Who knows? But it's a rare event. But I think it's now time for Neil to shut the fuck up and go and write it in a song. Get your guitar out, and write about Spotify, sing a song about Spotify, sing a song about Joe Rogan. But mate, get in your lane. So, um, he's changing his story, he's being a hypocrite. And the reason that for the first time maybe in 15 years I'm actually doing a video about an individual and publicly criticizing him is because this has become so much bigger than Neil Young and Joe Rogan and Spotify. This is a fight for freedom of speech. I'm fighting for your freedom of speech and my freedom of speech. Oh, and by the way, Neil Young's freedom of speech. But get your freaking story straight. So, um, check out what he's gone and done now. So Neil Young has urged Spotify employees to leave the company before it eats up your soul. So, um, Who the fuck is Neil Young to go and urge all Spotify employees to leave the company? Who is he to do that? Daniel Ek and Joe Rogan aren't going around doing campaigns for everyone to never buy Neil Young's music again. Who the fuck is Neil Young to go and tell everyone that works at Spotify to leave before it eats up your soul? Wind your neck in, Neil Young. Now you have the right to write a song about it. Why didn't you just write a song about it? You'd have sold a lot of albums. Here's the irony: Neil Young went and moaned about Joe Rogan to Spotify and then ended up canceling himself and lost 60% of his royalties. Whereas if Neil Yogan— the new hybrid of Neil Young and Joe Rogan— if Neil Young had gone on to Joe Rogan's, um, Spotify podcast, you know, if he'd have actually been on The Joe Rogan Experience and debated it, he'd have probably sold a million or 5 million more albums. Why didn't Neil Young write a song called Fuck Joe Rogan, Fuck Spotify and the Horse It Rode On? He's perfectly entitled to do that, but why is he Why is he telling all of Spotify's employees to leave the company before it eats your soul? He has no right to do that. Get back on your horse, stay in your lane, Neil Young. Okay, so get this. Now he's changed his story as well, which kind of pisses me off. The Grammy-winning musician said the firm's executive Daniel Ek is the problem with the streaming service rather than the controversial host. Joe Rogan. But wait a minute, didn't he at the start of this say, "It's Joe Rogan or it's Neil Young"? Didn't he essentially give Spotify an ultimatum, virtually a blackmail? Last time I looked, that's what he did. And didn't he have a go at Joe Rogan for misinformation and disinformation and, you know, interviewing controversial scientists and putting people's lives in jeopardy? Did he not say all that? Yes, he did. Oh, but now he's backtracking, saying, "No, wait a minute, Joe Rogan's not the problem, it's actually Spotify." Make up your fricking mind! You could have written two songs. "I'm not sure if it's Joe Rogan's fault or Spotify's fault, so I'll write a new album and I'll write one about Joe Rogan and I'll write another about Spotify, and then I can delete the one that's wrong." Holy shit, it would have been a good song. Rage Against the Machine mashup with Neil Rogan. Neil Rogan, fucking hell. I would have loved to see Neil Young go on the Joe Rogan Show. So Neil Young previously requested his entire back catalog to be removed from the platform due to the spread of coronavirus misinformation on the site, on the site, which he attributed in part to the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. So actually what Neil Young actually did was blame Joe Rogan's misinformation and disinformation Because obviously he must be pro-vaccine and whatever else is going on, whoever else is controlling him, whoever else owns a lot of his back channel. Um, and then, but then on Monday he writes to the workers at Spotify, I say Daniel Ek is your problem, not Joe Rogan. Ek pulls the strings. Get out of that place before it eats up your soul. The only goals stated by Ek are numbers, not art, not creativity. To the musicians and the creators in the world, I say this: You must be able to find a better place than Spotify to be the home of your art. Now, that's another issue altogether. So a lot of people on my videos have been saying, hey, Rob, but Spotify, they don't pay artists well. They pay artists 0.0003p per play. The artists aren't making any money off Spotify. That may be the case. I can't comment on that. That's not what my content's been about. It's actually not the main issue. It's a peripheral issue. And And if you think that's a serious issue, don't go to Spotify using Joe Rogan as your leveraging chip when Joe Rogan isn't the problem. So now apparently Neil Young thinks that Joe Rogan isn't the problem. Danielek is the problem because they're not paying their creators enough and it's not the place where you should host your art. That's a different issue. That's a third song for Neil Young to write. Right, go find another platform. To sing your fucking songs. All right, so the singer's campaign to remove his music triggered a wave of similar action from fellow artists and content creators like Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, of course India Arie with the N-word controversy, and the Science Vs podcast. So I knew that when Joe was essentially ultimatums and blackmailed by Neil Young and of course Spotify, same situation. I knew that this was going to be the thin end of the wedge and the thing that eked open the dam. And now of course there's been an avalanche of creators jumping on. Now this avalanche of creators, many of them have jumped on because they don't get paid enough by Spotify. And if that's the case, that's a different issue. Don't use Joe Rogan as your bargaining chip. Don't try and cancel Joe Rogan because you want to get paid more, because that's not the answer. Because the irony is, you cancel Joe Rogan, You increased the chances of cancelling yourself. Although Neil Young actually cancelled himself inadvertently. Now get this. Um, Neil Young's latest criticism of Spotify and its chief executive comes after Mr. Ek told his employees that cancelling Rogan was not the answer, which I agree with, and they was deeply sorry for the impact the controversy was having on them, which I also agree with. Sometimes things happen that maybe you can't fully control, but you can still be sorry for. A lot of people said that Joe Rogan shouldn't have apologized. I think it was more the N-word thing. I think he was sorry. I think the whole controversy around Spotify and Neil Young, I think he was sorry for or sorry about, if maybe he wasn't necessarily sorry. But shows humility. The guy's prepared to apologize not once but twice. Where's Neil Young's humility? Where is that? Telling everyone in Spotify to leave because Spotify is eating your soul. So This is now Neil Young's updated statement. While I strongly condemn what Joe has said, and I agree with his decision to remove past episodes from our platform— oh no, actually, forgive me, that must have been Daniel Ek. I realize some will want more, he said in a note to staff, and I want to make one point very clear: I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer. So Daniel Ek doesn't think that silencing Joe is the answer. I guess with $100 million invested in him, He wouldn't. But, um, now, um, Neil Young is saying that Daniel Ek is the problem and Spotify is the problem. It's actually not Joe Rogan's the problem. And now he's telling everyone to leave Spotify. So my suggestion is this to Neil Young: go back to singing songs. You're pretty good at it. Um, you're not heavy enough for me, but you're good at it. Uh, and why don't you go and sing— why don't you make a whole album, the Spotify album, and then make another— make a two-part series, Radio Hit Head did Kid A and Amnesiac, like two parts, two albums at the same stage. So you could do a, um, a Neil Young versus Spotify album and a Neil Young versus Joe Rogan album. And you can go, fuck Joe Rogan— oh wait a minute, no, fuck Spotify. You can do whatever you want. And of course it can be produced by the VC firms that own your back catalog. The— let's do a little bit of research and find out where they are. Holy shit. All right, why don't you hit the share button? I don't know. Look, this is kind of a bit tongue-in-cheek. Neil Young don't give a shit what I'm gonna say, but I just think that Neil Young should stick to singing songs, um, and I don't think he should be going around telling all Spotify employees to leave. I don't think that's right. Um, Spotify and Joe Rogan are not telling everyone to boycott Neil Young's music. They're not going to anyone associated or collaborating with or working for Neil Young and telling them to leave because he's a hypocrite. You know, because he's making an ultimatum and blackmail to Spotify, because he's using language as weapons like misinformation and disinformation. Don't see Spotify or Joe Rogan doing that. So get back on your horse and start writing your songs and stay in your lane, Neil Young. Let me know what you think in the comments. Thanks for tuning in. And remember this: if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. Let's have a chat. What do you think of this whole debate, discussion, debacle? I still think we've got to fight hard for this and hard for the freedom of speech. If Joe Rogan gets canceled, you're next. You are next, make no mistake about it. It's easy when it doesn't affect you to watch from the sidelines. I mean, this doesn't affect me. You know, people could say, well, Rob, why are you so bothered about this? Because this will affect us all, and this will impact our ability to be a creator. Because I don't want you censored from Facebook, Instagram, Clubhouse, YouTube. I don't want you to have to only be able to post on BitChute. Uh, I want you to have freedom of speech to say what you want. And you know, even if I don't agree with you, I should be humble and wise enough to listen to you. And we need both sides of a discussion and a debate to come up with, um, you know, the best solutions. And often what happens when things are new and hard, like COVID and lockdowns, is we don't know until we've examined the results for many years what was right and what was wrong. We won't know for many years what was misinformation, disinformation, and true information. What was real facts and what was fact-checked by people who aren't fact-checking. We won't know for a few years. So until then, we have to keep all discussion and debate open until it's blatantly obvious. Like, it's obvious now that smoking is bad for you, but it wasn't when it started. It's obvious now that sugar is bad for you, but it wasn't when it started. So we have to allow both sides of a discussion, even if we don't agree. I've not once said that Neil Young should be canceled, because he shouldn't. He just shouldn't ultimatum, bribe, change his stories, and try and cancel someone else because he doesn't agree. I don't think any of us have that right. First Amendment, protect the freedom of speech. 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