An Open Letter to Spotify

Dear Spotify,

I just received yet another offer of your “free [#] months” to return to your service. This is a formal request for you to fuck off and leave me alone.

For the record: I cancelled my account a long time ago—back when your algorithm forgot who the fuck I am and what I actually listen to. You didn’t “lose engagement.” You lost the plot.

You dropped Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion the moment racism became fashionable again in the Oval Office. That wasn’t business prudence. That was cowardice with a quarterly report.

Your entire industry exists because of diversity—because of Black artists, queer artists, immigrant artists, underground scenes, stolen rhythms, basement experiments, pirate radio, and sounds that never once asked permission from polite society. You didn’t invent that ecosystem. You monetized it. Then you got nervous when the politics got inconvenient.

And now, on top of that, you’ve run ads for ICE—an organization that proudly treats the U.S. Constitution like a suggestion box. You sell “Discover Weekly” while actively funding disappearance. That’s not brand misalignment. That’s moral rot.

So let me be extremely clear:

I find your actions reprehensible.
I find your values hollow.
I want absolutely nothing to do with your platform, your brand, your metrics, your “we’re listening” emails, or your algorithmic apologies.

Erase my data. Bury my profile. Forget I ever existed.

And one more thing: this is Canada.
Racism is not welcome here.

And with all due respect:

Climb to the very top of Get Fucked Mountain. Set up camp. Plant a flag. And then—once you’ve really taken in the view—fuck off even further.

Because I don’t waste compassion on racists.
I don’t bargain with fascism.
And I don’t help corporations feel better about what they already chose to become.

Consider this your notice.

— turnip

PS – for dramatic effect, feel free to enjoy a lovely remix of EXIT featuring Miss Kittin, from HYBRID: A Decade of Dubfire by Dubfire on Bandcamp. Rumour has it that the artists actually get paid on Bandcamp.