r/Music • u/ebradio • Jan 22 '25

music Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony

https://pitchfork.com/news/spotify-hosts-trump-inauguration-brunch-and-makes-150000-donation-to-ceremony/
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u/CapillaryClinton Jan 22 '25

Zero donations from Spotify and Daniel Ek to those who lost everything in the LA fires too. This is hilarious/awful.

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u/Wassertopf Jan 22 '25

I mean, Spotify is from the other side of the planet. Shouldn’t at first American companies donating money to the LA fires victims?

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u/CapillaryClinton Jan 22 '25

No? The vast majority of Spotify streams are of songs made in LA, it knows that building studios in LA and offices in LA, its holding its songwriter of the year award a the Grammys in LA.

And why doesn't your logic hold the other way around? its from the other side of the world yet its paying for Trumps inauguration...