Bark!
Jackson Browne is also suing the McCain campaign for use of his song "Running on Empty". I sort of think "running on empty" really defines McSame.
And don't forget they've pissed off Van Halen as well. I can't remember which song they used but VH is suing them as well.
I guess they don't understand that just because you can download it from iTunes doesn't mean you can do what you want with it.
I bet they could use anything off Neil Young's last album, if they said "please".
DD, the VH song is Right Now.
300baud, considering that Young doesn't license anything of his for anybody for any reason, not to mention his Bush-bashing...
Neil Young did have a momentary brain fart post 9-11 when he kind of drank the Bush kool-aid but has apologized since.
Bruce Springsteen also took issue with the Republican's trying to use Born in the USA as did a member of the band Orleans for McCain trying to use Still the One.
What really makes me snicker is that they are so freaking literal. They have no idea about what these songs are really about. The "barracudas" were the corporate recording companies who were screwing artists, especially women artists. Springsteen's song was about the plight of the working man who was being screwed by Reaganomics.
But we've all known for decades that no-one listen to song lyrics, if the music is good enough. (To some, this is proof of the insidious nature of good pop music). Republicans, or at least their campaign managers, seem to take a perverse pride in turning songs on their heads -- viz., the George H.W. Bush campaign's short-term use, back in 1988, of "Don't Worry, Be Happy."
It's because of this cheerful chutzpah that I've almost -- I say almost -- come to admire Republican campaign managers (call 'em RCMs) over the years. Satire requires a certain kind of deadpan mislabeling. This makes RCMs some of the highest-profile, most successful satirists of the post-1960s era. It's a pity all this has been in the service of... well, I don't really think I have to go on, here.
GREAT STUFF!!! I added this to my round-up of Palin links.
By the time the lyrics are patiently explained to them (e.g. Mes Aieux), they've already moved on to something else. Or else they pout that the songs are out there to be interpreted any way they like.
As usual, they have no respect for the people who've written the music. (They can't use artists who adhere to their politis because they write crappy, boring songs.) I wish these songwriters would get together and launch some kind of class action suit against the cultural misappropriation of their songs.
SQ - Running on Empty or Dazed & Confused. Poor McSame!
DD - Yeah, they seem to think if it's out there, they can use it. D'oh!
300baud - Um... no, don't think so.
brebis - I saw one of the fetus fetishists post the Mex Aieux song on his site just recently -- again!! Are these people stupid or just dishonest? Both?
In answer to your question, JJ: both.
Great idea brebis. These are the same hypocrites who are ecstatic when government's cut public support for artists.
brebis - "They can't use artists who adhere to their politis because they write crappy, boring songs."
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