In a gesture of support for Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, Gilles Vigneault has just asked his record label Tandem to withdraw all of its titles from the Spotify digital platform.
Posted at 2:30 p.m.
The legendary Quebec poet and singer-songwriter made this decision by wanting to give “a good example of civic rigor and intellectual rigor”, can we read in a press release published on Monday. “I therefore find that Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are right to give us this example and it is as honorable as it is relevant to follow them in their rejection of the proven dangerous falsehoods professed by theorists of galloping populism, added the artist from Natashquan. . I therefore support with all my convictions their audacious approach, dictated by an ethic which is the true guardian of our thoughts and our values”.
Last week, Neil Young first decided to remove all of his songs from the Swedish streaming platform, in response to Spotify’s refusal to stop hosting the controversial, but also widely listened to, American host Joe Rogan, number one listener to podcasts on Spotify last year.
In a move to try to limit the damage – the title of Spotify plunged following the decisions of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell – the CEO and founder of the world’s number one music streaming company, Daniel Ek, announced in the Sunday evening that measures were going to be quickly put in place, in particular the introduction of links in all its podcasts evoking the COVID-19 which will guide its users towards factual and scientifically verified information.