{"id":481195,"date":"2019-01-22T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782268"},"modified":"2019-01-22T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T17:42:08","slug":"spotify-now-lets-you-mute-r-kelly-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/spotify-now-lets-you-mute-r-kelly-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify Now Lets You Mute R. Kelly Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With its rollout and repeal<\/a>\u00a0of a hateful conduct and content policy a few months behind it, Spotify<\/a> is trying a different approach to controversial music \u2014 this time, handing over the responsibility to users. The streaming service has quietly introduced a much-requested feature in its mobile app allowing users to block an artist from automatically playing.<\/p>\n

The feature, first spotted by tech website\u00a0Thurrott<\/a><\/em>, lives in the small upper-right-hand menu on artist pages. Between \u201cFollow\u201d and \u201cShare,\u201d Users now have the option to select \u201cDon\u2019t play this artist,\u201d which blocks the artist from playing in personal and curated playlists, charts, radio stations and a user\u2019s personal library. The artist\u2019s name will still appear in all of those places, however, as well as in search results; his or her music just will not automatically play in the queue unless manually selected. The blocking feature is currently available only on mobile devices, not the desktop app or site; it is also a feature that appears to have been in \u201cserious consideration\u201d for a few years now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spotify removed a small handful of artists including R. Kelly<\/a> from its editorial playlists last year, largely in response to the #MuteRKelly movement, which has called for his music to be removed from distribution in light of repeated sexual assault allegations. It restored Kelly and the other artists a few weeks later after public outcry about the service trying to be a moral police for the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n

But after a Lifetime documentary\u00a0Surviving R. Kelly<\/em> debuted earlier this month, protests and pressure from music fans and industry figures to scrub Kelly from platforms have now reached a fever pitch \u2014 to the point where both his label and publisher (Sony\u2019s RCA Records and Universal Music Publishing Group, respectively) have removed the singer<\/a> from their artist and songwriter rosters. Spotify did not immediately respond to request for comment on whether the blocking feature will become more widely available.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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