5 Reasons Joe Rogan Just Isn't The Same On Spotify

Although this did happen a couple of months before the show went to Spotify exclusively, the move to Austin and change of platform do go hand in hand, and in retrospect we will probably look back on the two as part of the same process of metamorphosis that JRE went through at the end of 2020.

A lot of people don’t like change, and some things that receive an initially poor reaction can go onto be become timeless classics in their own right, for example, The Shawshank Redemption released to a relatively lukewarm response in the mid-‘90s. However, we’re now a couple of months in and people have generally, at best, learnt to live with the new backdrop.

The more rugged old Rogan set up was so iconic it would become unmistakeable as the shot that would appear on its thumbnails for YouTube videos, which have also now changed slightly on Spotify.

Maybe it just takes time to bed into a new studio, but as it stands, it just doesn’t have quite the same feeling, with a more clean-cut set up accentuating the idea in some people’s minds that the whole JRE operation has taken a decided turn to the corporate.