Famous Rock Group Reacted By Saying ‘Delete Spotify’

Recently, the famous comedian and actor Joe Rogan hosted and described as the most popular podcast in the world with close to 11 million active listeners. ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast named people about COVID-19 misinformed has been the target of harsh criticism. After this incident, the famous Canadian composer, songwriter and singer Neil Young was also involved, saying that he did not want to be on the same platform with Joe Rogan and that supporting Spotify was an art form. ruin He ignited the controversy when he said he was.

After this incident, a strange event occurred on Spotify yesterday. 90’s alt-rock bands Belly‘s homepage on Spotify, only in desktop view “Delete Spotify” An image appeared that said (Delete Spotify).

Belly describes Spotify’s stance on recent events as “disgusting”

Following this incident, all eyes naturally turned to Belly. The group, who made a statement on their Twitter accounts about Spotify’s attitude towards the latest events on Friday, said that when they look at the platform’s artists, they look at the platform. not paying; but using that revenue to fund false COVID-19 information, contributing to prolonging the pandemic that has kept all artists out of touring revenue. “disgusting” turned out to be considered.

Rights holders, usually record companies, are responsible for uploading an artist’s music to Spotify, while the artist’s images used in their Spotify account the artists themselves can also control. In this case, it seems likely that a representative of the group put this image on the page independently of the official rights holder.

The group, who wants their songs to be removed from Spotify, states that this process is quite complicated.

On the other hand, the band, just like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, have their songs on Spotify. to be removed wants. The group, which made a statement on this subject on Facebook, although they want to delete their songs from the platform, this process is quite difficult and complex states that it is.

“Why are we still on spotify if we don’t like them? It’s so complicated” speaking group, “Once you entered it’s hard to get out. We’re looking at options, but you’ll find that there are many who oppose spotify policies and are still there,” He says this is an indication of how difficult it is for artists to leave Spotify.

Speaking to Variety, Belly records in his statement:

“Spotify’s business model has been from the very beginning to lobby to devalue creative work and hold tight against the regulations that regulate royalty payments (along with other tech giants) while giving artists low salaries. Funding artists and disinformation – which could prolong the pandemic. and disinformation that could further harm artists by limiting live performance options – turning down and using a large amount of money that had to be dispersed to provide a platform eventually it was overflowing. Yes, we believe in freedom of speech, but that we have an obligation to help fund (and underpaid in the process) the deliberate disinformation and suspicion planted to undermine the concept of the collective, public interest. we don’t believe“