Neil Young Returning To Spotify With Tail Between His Legs After Two-Year Joe Rogan Standoff

Neil Young absolutely embarrassed himself a couple of years back when he became so incensed with the idea that Spotify would want to hitch its wagon to Joe Rogan — one of the biggest podcasters on the planet — that he decided to remove his songs from the platform.

He essentially took his ball and went home…

Well, now two years later — and with not one person ditching Spotify because they couldn't listen to his music — Young is bringing his music back to Spotify.

Young was upset in 2022 over Rogan's podcast which sometimes discussed topics related to COVID-19 that didn't always jive with the mainstream narrative.

Of course, we now know a lot of the mainstream narrative proved to be the real disinformation/misinformation…

Still, ol' crotchety Neil decided to lodge a two-year "protest" that most of us forgot was even happening.

He announced an end to the standoff on his website this week.

"My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify," Young wrote on his website according to The New York Times. 

Wait, wait, wait… 

He's coming back to Spotify because Apple and Amazon have the same content on their platforms. So instead of protesting them like he did with Spotify… he's going back to Spotify? Why wouldn't he boycott them too?

Someone might need to check on Neil because this makes no sense.

Neil Young's Spotify tantrum was an embarrassing chapter in an otherwise legendary career. (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images)

In a way. I feel bad. There's no arguing that Neil Young is a music legend. But the way the guy who wrote "Rockin' In The Free World" threw a tantrum over someone exercising their right to speak is just embarrassing.

Then, the Free World could not have cared any less that he had no presence on the platform. His boycott was such a failure that Spotify re-upped with Rogan for more money because he — unlike Young, at least in the year 2024 — moves the needle.

So, now Neil has to go back to Spotify with his tail between his legs and put his tunes back on Spotify.

Dude, I would retire if this happened to me. 

He may be the "Godfather of Grunge" but this is tarnishing his legacy.