Songmaster Neil Young on Tuesday offered up his entire music catalog to Greenland, gratis, to help offset the stress its residents have been under amid President Trump’s attempts to somehow take control of the sovereign territory.
The gift is good for a year, subject to renewal, for anyone with a Greenland-based cellphone.
The veteran rocker, whose offer came days after the president began ratcheting down his rhetoric about “acquiring” the island inhabited by about 56,000 people, said he was honored to to give the free access to NeilYoungArchives.com.
“I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” Young wrote to Greenlanders in a blog post. “It is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality.”
Young’s post came days after he reaffirmed an October pledge to keep his music off Amazon to avoid supporting “billionaire backer of the president” Jeff Bezos, linking Trump’s international policies with the brutality shown by ICE agents domestically. He initially fled to Amazon in 2022 after yanking his music from Spotify over its dissemination of vaccine misinformation.
Trump has long been hankering to make Greenland his own, even though access to the things he said he wanted from it are already enshrined in a 1951 treaty. Protests erupted as the U.S. president brandished the tariff baseball bat and insinuated that force might be the way to go.
Along the way, it came out that much of Trump’s drama might have been a hissy fit over not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, writing in a text message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that he “no longer feel[s] an obligation to think purely of Peace.”
Norway and its NATO allies have openly objected to Trump’s Greenland goals.
Against that backdrop, Young extended his catalog as “an offer of Peace and Love,” he wrote. “All the music I have made during the last 62 years is yours to hear. You can renew for free as long as you are in Greenland. We do hope other organisations will follow in the spirit of our example. LOVE EARTH.”
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