{"id":1840,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/the-wiggles-pull-music-from-spotify-in-show-of-solidarity-with-taylor-swift\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:40","slug":"the-wiggles-pull-music-from-spotify-in-show-of-solidarity-with-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/the-wiggles-pull-music-from-spotify-in-show-of-solidarity-with-taylor-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiggles Pull Music from Spotify in Show of Solidarity with Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jacob Levin<\/a><\/h6>\n
April 23, 2016<\/h6>\n

In a public announcement Monday, The Wiggles announced that they have decided to remove all of their music from Spotify to show solidarity with Taylor Swift and “starving musicians everywhere<\/insert>.“<\/insert><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the collective opinion of The Wiggles that music should not be free. We pour blood, sweat, and tears into all of our albums, movies, and television programs, and as artists, we will no longer stand by as music streaming services irreparably damage the industry,\u201d Greg \u201cYellow Wiggle\u201d Page wrote in an op-ed in the Chicago Maroon<\/delete>New York Times<\/insert>. \u201cMs. Swift shares<\/insert>s<\/delete> our vision of a day in which artists can decide the price of their art, in the wake of his untimely death, we wanted to honor him<\/delete>.<\/insert><\/insert>.<\/delete>“<\/insert>\u201d<\/delete><\/p>\n

Jeff \u201cPurple Wiggle\u201d Fatt was not as gracious in his address to the media Tuesday. \u201cIf Spotify thinks that they can profit off the backs of mainstream artists like us and Taylor, well, they can go shake their sillies out in hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe certainly hope that The Wiggles will change their mind and help build one hot potato of a music economy.<\/insert>,<\/delete>\u201d Spotify posted on its website.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuck off with that hot potato noise,\u201d Murray \u201cRed Wiggle\u201d Cook shot back in a since-deleted tweet. \u201cHow\u2019s this for insulting commentary; if they try to paint us as the villains, we will personally go to Spotify headquarters and turn those fruits into a fruit salad.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, Wiggles show cast member <\/insert>Dorothy the Dinosaur could not be reached for comment, though reports placed<\/insert>as<\/delete> she was spotted protesting <\/delete>her at a recent protest <\/insert>at<\/delete>of<\/insert> an abortion clinic run by Captain Feathersword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Jacob Levin April 23, 2016 In a public announcement Monday, The Wiggles announced that they have decided to remove all of their music from Spotify to show solidarity with Taylor Swift and “starving musicians everywhere.“ \u201cIt is the collective opinion of The Wiggles that music should not be free. We pour blood, sweat, and tears into all of our albums, movies, and television programs, and as artists, we will no longer stand by as music streaming services irreparably damage the industry,\u201d Greg \u201cYellow Wiggle\u201d Page wrote in an op-ed in the Chicago MaroonNew York Times. \u201cMs. Swift sharess our vision of a day in which artists can decide the price of their art, in the wake of his untimely death, we wanted to honor him..“\u201d Jeff \u201cPurple Wiggle\u201d Fatt was not as gracious in his address to the media Tuesday. \u201cIf Spotify thinks that they can profit off the backs of mainstream artists like us and Taylor, well, they can go shake their sillies out in hell.\u201d \u201cWe certainly hope that The Wiggles will change their mind and help build one hot potato of a music economy.,\u201d Spotify posted on its website. \u201cFuck off with that hot potato noise,\u201d Murray \u201cRed Wiggle\u201d Cook shot back in a since-deleted tweet. \u201cHow\u2019s this for insulting commentary; if they try to paint us as the villains, we will personally go to Spotify headquarters and turn those fruits into a fruit salad.\u201d At press time, Wiggles show cast member Dorothy the Dinosaur could not be reached for comment, though reports placedas she was spotted protesting her at a recent protest atof an abortion clinic run by Captain Feathersword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}