I’m still getting my music off,” Arie told Rolling Stone. But behind the scenes, my journey is still continuing. “This Joe Rogan conversation is what people are looking at. While the legal battle begins, she doesn’t want the point to be lost in translation. If you have even a consciousness where you can call Black people apes, there’s something there.”Īt the moment, Arie’s music is still readily available on Spotify while Universal Motown and BMG block her from making the same move as Young. “What I really think is that he was being consciously racist, and it makes me wonder what he talks like behind closed doors. “I don’t like even saying that because I’m a sensitive, old soul, and I want to believe the best in people, so when I first heard his apology, my instinct is to go, ‘He tried.’” she continued. He knew that was inappropriate, and I think the fact that he did it repeatedly, and was conscious, and knew, I think that is being racist,” Arie said. “For me, when I think about Joe Rogan, I think that he is being consciously racist. ”Īrie opened the conversation Monday with a larger discussion about the mistreatment and underpayment of artists enabled by the streaming economy, then spent a great deal of her conversation with Trevor Noah discussing the role of conscious and unconscious racism. My dream is that what I’m doing will work, and there will be systemic changes. It’s about my integrity, my dignity, and hoping to create more of that for other artists, too. At the end of the day, it’s about wanting to be treated well. “It was about exposing what it’s like to be an artist of color in the business. “For me, it wasn’t even about exposing Joe Rogan,” she said. “FOR ME IT’S ALSO HIS language around race.” Rogan has used the n-word several times on his show over the years.īut, as she previously told Rolling Stone, Rogan is not the only issue here. “I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons OTHER than his Covid interviews,” she wrote on Instagram. 'Vilification Is Easy': Spotify Isn't the Culprit, Says Head of Indie Label Thirty TigersĪrie previously asked for her music to be pulled from the platform after artists like Neil Young did so in protest of The Joe Rogan Experience, on which the host perpetuated Covid-19 misinformation. India.Arie Wants to Yank Her Music Off Spotify - But Her Label Won't Let Her
They've Been Silent on the Joe Rogan Debacle The World's Two Largest Music Companies are Spotify Shareholders. “But I did it in protest just because I felt like my dignity was being … I felt like I was being disrespected.” Because now my music, if things work out the way I want, my music won’t be heard on the biggest streaming platform,” she said. “There are some things that I’ve wanted to say on records that I wanted to say, and a lot of that - kind of all of that - is on SongVersation.“I have to say that asking for my music to be pulled from Spotify in protest doesn’t actually serve me. “I’ve never said anything that I didn’t want to say on a record, ever,” she said. According to an 2013 interview with NPR, the singer said that the album was a culmination of all of the things she’s wanted to say on wax. #SongVersation is the name of 2 of my albums AND ALL of my performances – since 2010 – those who have witnessed ~ KNOW. But I speak up for myself ~ #songversation is sacred. Now that you know … please DO NOT do that. I know its not personal to you but it IS personal to me. India.Arie February 5, I demand that my lifes work be RESPECTED ~ do not TOY with #Songversation #soulbirdsworldwide RT #songversation was not created as a place for to make jokes. Nope scrolling thru these hashtags is makeing me nauseous. THIS not what I have cultivated this word for. I hear the show appropriated my sacred word #songversation Last night for a skit. Nope…#songversation was not created as a place for to make jokes. “Just be clear ~ Im offended…THIS not what I have cultivated this word for. “I hear the show appropriated my sacred word #songversation Last night for a skit,” the singer wrote on Twitter Monday (Feb. She says that the word “songversation” is “sacred” and that she demands respect. She took to Twitter after she caught wind of the game to say that she thinks Fallon’s pre-taped “Songversation” sketch was appropriating the title of her fifth studio-album, SongVersation. While some people may find this amusing, singer-songwriter India.Arie was not laughing at all.
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