A Dutch song slamming mass migration titled We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Seekers’ Centre has mysteriously disappeared from Spotify after peaking on the streaming charts.
The track, created with artificial intelligence (AI) by an anonymous musician called “JW Broken Veteran”, briefly reached the upper ranks of Spotify’s Dutch chart with more than 170,000 streams before vanishing from both major platforms.
Speaking to local media, the author claimed his accounts had been “hacked” and Spotify has not confirmed removing the track.
The platforms had previously stated the song did not breach their policies, noting that their rules only ban content that “incites violence or hatred against groups, or promotes violent extremism posing an immediate offline risk”.
The song’s lyrics opposing the construction of new asylum centres triggered outrage among activist groups.
The Dutch Council for Refugees responded by commissioning its own AI-generated tune, a cheery carnival number titled Ja, ja, ja, zo is Nederland (Yes, yes, yes, that’s how the Netherlands is).
Feminist collective Dolle Mina called the original AI protest song “scandalous,” urging supporters to stream instead Sophie Straat’s tune called Freedom, Equality, Sisterhood, a 2023 ode to a utopian Netherlands where asylum centres are no longer needed.
JW Broken Veteran is no stranger to controversy.
Since June, he’s released numerous politically charged tracks under the playlist Love for the Fatherland including F*ck You, Left-wing F*ckers and You can call me Far-Right.
His earlier work also targets pro-Palestinian protesters, climate activists and the “obsession” with gender pronouns.
It is not the first time Europe has seen AI-generated protest music on immigration.
In France last year, the anti-migrant electro track Je Partirai Pas (I Won’t Leave) went viral during the Fête de la Musique festival until TikTok deleted it.
