Neil Younger plans to drag his music from Amazon
Neil Younger mentioned he’ll take away his songs from Amazon Music over financial and political considerations, marking his newest marketing campaign in opposition to a serious tech firm.
The Canadian and American singer-songwriter disclosed his choice in an October 8 put up on his web site, urging followers to desert Amazon and its subsidiaries together with Entire Meals Market.
The removing of his music from Amazon Music would have an effect on subscribers’ entry to a catalog of labor spanning six a long time, together with solo hits like Outdated Man and Harvest Moon.
Younger criticized Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for supporting the Trump administration, whereas additionally referencing a authorities shutdown that he mentioned affected revenue, security, and healthcare safety for households.
He wrote: “Overlook Amazon and Entire Meals. Purchase native. Purchase direct. Bezos helps this authorities. It doesn’t help you or me.”
He added: “The time is right here. Overlook Amazon. Quickly my music is not going to be there. It’s simple to purchase native. Help your group. Go to the native retailer. Don’t return to large firms who’ve offered out America.”
“Overlook Amazon and Entire Meals. Purchase native. Purchase direct. Bezos helps this authorities. It doesn’t help you or me.”
Neil Younger
He continued: “All of us have to surrender one thing to avoid wasting America from the Company Management Age it’s getting into. They want you to purchase from them. Don’t.”
Younger didn’t specify whether or not his transfer would have an effect on solely Amazon Music’s streaming service or prolong to bodily albums and merch offered via Amazon’s market.
The artist has repeatedly withdrawn his music or deserted social media platforms over political and moral disagreements. In early 2022, he pulled his catalog from Spotify after accusing the streaming big of permitting podcaster Joe Rogan to unfold misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
“The time is right here. Overlook Amazon. Quickly my music is not going to be there. It’s simple to purchase native. Help your group. Go to the native retailer. Don’t return to large firms who’ve offered out America.”
Neil Younger
After an absence of greater than two years, his music returned to Spotify, writing in March 2024: “My choice comes as music companies Apple and Amazon have began serving the identical disinformation podcast options I had opposed at Spotify.”
He added on the time: “I can not simply go away Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, as a result of my music would have little or no streaming outlet to music lovers in any respect, so I’ve returned to Spotify, in honest hopes that Spotify sound high quality will enhance and folks will be capable to hear and really feel all of the music as we made it.”
Most not too long ago in August, Younger introduced that he was leaving Fb, citing objections to the Meta-owned platform’s AI chatbot. The Neil Younger – Reprise Data web page on Fb wrote: “At Neil Younger’s request, we’re now not utilizing Fb for any Neil Younger-related actions. Meta’s use of chatbots with youngsters is unconscionable. Mr. Younger doesn’t need a additional reference to Fb.”
He additionally deserted X or Twitter in late 2023 after Elon Musk was reported to have endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy concept. He wrote on the time: “We’re stopping all use of X we will management. For causes that ought to be apparent to the richest man on Earth, we’re taking this motion in opposition to his firm.”
Younger’s transfer in opposition to Amazon marks the newest within the rising boycott of music streaming platforms. In August, Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor pulled almost their whole discography from main streaming companies together with Spotify, Tidal and Amazon Music, with out offering a cause. The band’s music stays obtainable for buy and streaming via direct-to-fan platform Bandcamp.
In July, Australian rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard withdrew their music from Spotify in protest over CEO Daniel Ek‘s funding in European protection expertise firm Helsing, based in 2021, which makes a speciality of AI protection software program but additionally makes drones just like the HX2.
San Francisco-based Indie rock band Deerhoof began the wave of exits, writing on their web site on June 30: “We don’t need our music killing individuals. We don’t need our success being tied to AI battle tech.”
On Sunday, The Guardian reported that indie musicians in Oakland, California, held a collection of talks known as Dying to Spotify, the place they mentioned “what it means to decentralize music discovery, manufacturing and listening from capitalist economies.”
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