She’s joining her friend Neil Young in having her music catalog pulled over concerns about vaccine misinformation being spread on Spotify’s Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Liza Minnelli has outlived Joni Mitchell’s music on Spotify, she tweeted. “Of course, no system or business is perfect, but we have alternatives to Spotify that allow the band to be compensated in a more sustainable way, and without the need to associate ourselves with dangerous lies about public health policy. Singer Liza Minelli also announced she was pulling her music from Spotify. On that level, this problem is really that simple. 29, guitarist Lofgren of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band announced that he had pulled 27 years’ worth of music from Spotify. There are multiple layers, and reasons for our decision, but looking at the capitalistic, free market angle, this band, like any other small business, is cutting ties with a partner that continues to cut into our bottom line. We simply cannot square Spotify’s insistence on spreading misinformation about something that directly endangers our band’s supply chain, namely, human beings in a room with big speakers. “The vast majority of venues on our upcoming tour are requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test to see our show. The last tour we had booked in 2019 was canceled because of COVID, which was a massive financial blow to the band. Right now, Failure have a 31-date US tour booked for June. The band continued: “Beyond the moral issues raised by Spotify’s COVID decision, the issue of vaccine misinformation and how it directly affects the current situation in the live music space is simply untenable. Posted by Failure on Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Failure have wrestled with the question of Spotify and whether to have our newest music, which we control, on the…
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