“I set out with the title even before I had the song, which is unusual for me, but I wanted to remind people that even though the world ordains that you have to ‘do’ or ‘be’ something to be ‘worthy,’ that’s not true. The songs on this album implicitly or explicitly carry the message and the energy of the word,” Arie states about the project. “My favorite definition of the word ‘worthy’ is deserving of regard and respect. The project is herald by the sultry and eargasmic Top Ten R&B hit “That Magic,” and the powerful and thought-provoking “What If.” She said she worried about judgement because her Spexit (a term coined by MusicREDEF writer/curator Matty Karas) was inspired by other factors.Grammy Award-winning soul singer India.Arie releases her eighth studio album, WORTHY, via SoulBird/BMG. And so I’ve been doing that since maybe around May, and so when this came up, I had to do it,” she said at press time Arie’s music and podcast were still on Spotify and a spokesperson for the singer could not be reached for comment on when/if it would be taken down.Īrie also told Hall she was nervous because she feared that some people might conflate her reasoning with that of Young, as well as the other artists who’ve followed suit in solidarity, including Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash and Bruce Springsteen guitarist Nils Lofgren.
“She challenges the reader to an integrity cleanse and it means telling the whole truth all the time and see what it will make of your life. The singer said she made a commitment with herself to be more honest after reading life coach/sociologist Martha Beck’s 2021 book The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.
“And so artists are underpaid and Joe Rogan gets paid all this money and it’s hard for me to, these days, just sit back and go, ‘Oh, well, that’s how it goes,'” she told Hall. “One is the Joe Rogan conversation and for me his language around race and some of the things I’ve seen and heard, but also coupled with that, there is the treatment of artists by Spotify,” she said, seemingly alluding to a recent episode in which Rogan hosted Canadian psychologist and conservative YouTube personality Jordan Peterson had a conversation in which the two white men held forth on questions of racial authenticity while making insensitive, racially charged comments about skin tone.Īrie also said her decision was based on what she said was the wildly unbalanced difference in pay between working musicians and Rogan. White House on Spotify's Joe Rogan Mess: 'There Is More That Can Be Done' to Inform Users
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