{"id":3150,"date":"2022-02-02T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2022-02-03T06:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:03:41","slug":"india-arie-to-pull-music-from-spotify-in-solidarity-with-neil-young-and-because-of-problematic-joe-rogans-language-around-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2022\/02\/02\/india-arie-to-pull-music-from-spotify-in-solidarity-with-neil-young-and-because-of-problematic-joe-rogans-language-around-race\/","title":{"rendered":"India.Arie To Pull Music From Spotify In Solidarity With Neil\u00a0Young, But&#8230; Because of \u2018Problematic\u2019 Joe Rogan\u2019s \u2018Language Around Race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grammy Award-winning musician India Aria has revealed she\u2019s removing her music from Spotify&nbsp;because of&nbsp;Joe Rogan&#8217;s \u201clanguage around race\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><sup><sub>ADVERTISEMENT<\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"324\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kbakerco-Timepieces-3.0-x-2.5-ADV-1-WITH-CTA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kbakerco-Timepieces-3.0-x-2.5-ADV-1-WITH-CTA.png 324w, https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kbakerco-Timepieces-3.0-x-2.5-ADV-1-WITH-CTA-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Arie referred to the podcaster as being \u201cproblematic\u201d, saying that she came to her decision as she felt she should \u201cwalk\u201d through a door \u201copened\u201d by Neil Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Young asked that his music be removed from the platform&nbsp;due to its affiliation with Rogan, whom he said had spread \u201cfalse in formation\u201d regarding&nbsp;Covid-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elaborating upon her reasoning for asking her music to be withdrawn from the platform, \u201cBrown Skin\u201d singer Arie wrote in a statement on Tuesday (2\/1): \u201cI believe in freedom of speech. However, I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons OTHER than his Covid interviews&#8230;FOR ME ITS ALSO HIS language around race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While she didn\u2019t specifically mention what she was referring to, Rogan previously caused controversy for hosting a podcast episode in which he welcomed his guest, the YouTuber and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson, to discuss what they believe it means to be Black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arie is taking action because of Spotify&#8217;s tepid response, seen by some as a reaffirmation of Joe Rogans&#8217; wordplay, whom she referred to as being \u201cproblematic\u201d, saying that she came to her decision as she felt she should \u201cwalk\u201d through a door \u201copened\u201d by Neil Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[196],"tags":[682,684,685,179,677,683],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}