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If only Blunt’s discography was as entertaining as his Tweets…

UK singer songwriter and well-known Twitter troll James Blunt has threatened to release new music if Spotify continues its support of podcaster Joe Rogan. Blunt’s statement, in which he jokingly promises to drop what would undoubtedly be an ear assault à la 2005’s ‘You’re Beautiful’, comes after fellow musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell made similar protests against the streaming service.

Taking to social media, a platform he’s long used to make jokes at his own expense, Blunt proposed the ultimatum to his 2.1 million Twitter followers, requesting that “If @spotify doesn’t immediately remove @joerogan, I will release new music onto the platform,” followed by the self-referential hashtag, “#youwerebeautiful.”

If @spotify doesn’t immediately remove @joerogan, I will release new music onto the platform. #youwerebeautiful

— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) January 29, 2022

Blunt’s Spotfiy anti-boycott takes an opposite route to that of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who last week had their music willingly removed from the platform to protest what Young called the “spreading [of] fake information” on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “They can have Rogan or Young,” the rocker singer wrote in an open letter, “not both.”

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In a statement released this morning, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed the controversy by outlining the platform’s steps to combat misinformation, prohibiting any content that presents “deceptive medical information that may cause offline harm or poses a direct threat to public health.” Although there was no explicit reference to Rogan, Eck wrote that Spotify plans to add content advisories to episodic podcasts, as well as directories to the platform’s COVID-19 content.

Spotfiy has yet to comment on Blunt’s statement, but it’s hoped they make the right decision by sparing our ears of yet another twangy lovestruck ballad. Thankfully there’s no feuds with fellow social platform Twitter on the horizon, because Blunt’s feed needs to be saved for posterity.

2006, actually. RT @K_Dick33: Why does James Blunt have a million followers? He stopped being relevant in 2009

— James Blunt (@JamesBlunt) January 30, 2015