“There are many things that Joe Rogan says that I strongly disagree with and find very offensive,” Ek told employees, according to audio obtained by the Verge.īut as Ek told it, the exclusive deal with Rogan and others gave the platform a key lift. It is Spotify’s own corporate ambition to dominate the audio business - and keep investors happy - by reaching 1 billion users and 50 million “creators.”ĭuring a Wednesday town hall, some Spotify employees wrangled with executives over management’s persistence in defining Spotify as a platform rather than a publisher, a dichotomy the company has awkwardly straddled by becoming the exclusive distributor of Rogan’s show while agreeing not to editorially supervise it, apart from removing episodes that might violate generic company content guidelines.Īddressing employees, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek‘s remarks suggested that he wasn’t particularly personally fond of Rogan’s show. “So at one moment he may be discussing elk hunting or MMA fighting, then suddenly he’ll push the right-wing lie that Biden is trying to stop the public from accessing monoclonal antibodies.”īut what’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks is that the source of Spotify’s headaches isn’t Rogan. “I’m trying to highlight that he regularly and without consequence veers into harmful lies about our response to the current pandemic,” among other issues, said Alex Paterson, senior researcher at Media Matters. (Rogan did not respond to a request for comment.) Rogan also has many passionate detractors, and the liberal watchdog Media Matters employs a researcher who has listened to hundreds of hours of his shows to document the most controversial portions. He sometimes hosts controversial (and often right-wing) figures, but can boast many fans and defenders across the ideological and cultural spectrum, including liberal host Jon Stewart and controversy-averse actor Dwayne Johnson. After striking a deal said to be worth roughly $100 million to make his show exclusive to Spotify in 2020, “The Joe Rogan Experience” has become Spotify’s most popular podcast in 93 markets.
The lyrics speak to anyone who’s suffered through unrequited love.Amid this furor, Rogan has remained the towering central figure who seemingly everyone loves - or hates - to argue about. Moreover, “You’re Beautiful” is not the worst song in the world. For example, he’s helped raise money for Help for Heroes (which assists wounded British servicemen), Médecins Sans Frontières, and various environmental causes. Plus, he has made other songs besides “You’re Beautiful” and has done a range of other things.
Blunt does have a history of self-deprecating humor on Twitter that’s attracted over 2.1 million followers. So don’t hold your breath anticipating the release of “You’re Still Beautiful”, “Actually, You’re Not That Beautiful”, “The Lighting May Have Been Off”, “The you’re beautiful song said that I've got a plan, but it has taken over a decade and a half to execute this plan” or some other new Blunt song on to the Spotify platform in retaliation. Chances are Blunt has at least two fans, assuming that his wife likes his music as well.
Of course, there is the chance that Blunt may have been joking about his threat to release new music on Spotify and his suggestions that he has only one fan and will be playing only one song on his tour.
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