Spyke
lemmy.world

The Trump campaign playing Rage Against the Machine is just so mindbogglingly dumb, it defies comprehension.

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Well, dumbass fucks also need representation. Too bad it's like ~50% of the US.

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SupraMarioreply
lemmy.world

Have they actually used it or did Rage just say "don't use our shit"?

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I mean, "Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses" is probably a good thing from their point of view...

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Lol this is fucking hilarious. This is on the level of the popo wearing punisher logos...just complete idiots

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And the orange man's campaign to RATM when told not to play their music: fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.

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sh.itjust.works

Even... Lynyrd Skynyrd is on the list?

Does someone have context on that entry? Not that I'm complaining - because I'm not.

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lemmy.world

" Trump “has not yet seen the video, he will see it shortly, but based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns this video.” "

Did he condemn it?

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lemmy.world

As vehemently as he's condemned any other controversy he finds himself in 🙄

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hate2bmereply
lemmy.world

There's a big sign outside Jacksonville on 295 that says "Trump listens to Lynyrd Skynyrd"

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My wife showed me the lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama and damn if it didn’t seem to indicate that they’re left of their fans. Namely the lines

In Birmingham, they love the governor (boo, boo, boo!) 
Now we all did what we could do 
Now Watergate does not bother me, uh-uh 
Does your conscience bother you? Tell the truth

Which I read as “we don’t all love our state’s politics, but also don’t blame us for the shit done by a president from California”

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lemm.ee

Had to look them up to make sure I wasn't talking up my ass, but using RATM, who apparently used anti-authoritarian and revolutionary lyrics, for a rally for someone looking to be a dictator is very ironic.

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That type of mindless embracing of something you're not really paying attention to, is typical right-wing mindlessness.

Check out the lyrics to Bruce Springsteen "Born In The USA" while keeping in mind that reagan used it in 1984 presidential election campaign rallies and even mentioned it in gushing, patriotic speech demagoguery, I believe. Never bothered to see what that song is actually about - Vietnam veterans abandoned by their own government and country, as the America they grew up in is decaying into the Rust Belt.

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lemmy.ca

Did Prince come back from the dead?

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I'd pay thousands to see The Corpse Formerly Know as Prince perform

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Yes, but only to tell Trump to fuck off. He didn't stick around for our benefit, unfortunately.

You see, he's just like his father...

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Why doesn't he just use music from his buddies Kid Rock and Ted Nugent for everything?

No one gives a shit about Kid Rock anymore but he sure thinks they do, and The Nuge is an admitted child molester who literally shit his pants to dodge the draft... Sounds perfect for the modern GOP lol

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discuss.tchncs.de

Using Rage Against the Machine was just stupid. I'm guessing they never listened to any of the words and just went for a beat. Even then it doesn't feel like a beat for old white folks in their 70s and Uncle Toms.

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Re-appropriation is the name of the game. These jerks don't really make much art for themselves; a movement 60+ years old really should have an identifiable subculture with its own stuff by now. Instead, they're very good at acting like a bunch of kleptos, running with what they can.

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badelfreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hey, I resent that remark. I listen to Rage A M and I'm 75. Oh, and also, I'm sure as hell not as fuckin' brain dead as Trump is.

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So... Based on #1 and #17, Prince came back from the dead to tell Trump to stop using his music, and then dropped dead again? Do I have that right?

Edit: oh, also David The God of Rock Bowie, and Kenny Rogers.

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Ok the amount of people voting you need to learn how to do a Will then cuz special types of Executors are appointed for after death to make such decisions. This is pretty common with people with even a moderate amount of success particularly if they have any type of asset or property (intellectual included) to have looked after that becomes part of an estate.

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pfjarschelreply
lemmy.world

I think whoever owns the rights can do that, not necessarily the artist.

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Sure, but they specified The Estate of Tom Petty but the other three dead artists by name.

Also Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

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Strictly speaking, few if any of them retain their own rights to the music. Most are owned by the label. Look on any CD, official video, etc. You'll see Copyright Sony Music, or Universal, etc.

It also means they probably can't take legal action against Trump's use of it.

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I had the same thought initially. I haven't read the article, but assuming this picture isn't fake they might be including artists from his last two campaigns. Rogers did in 2020, Bowie and Prince died in 2016

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Would be nice to see a list of the specific songs that got the takedown issued and the date.

Mostly I'm just curious about Nickelback. In what political context are we using "Photograph"?

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lemmy.world

Abba - ???

Adele - "Skyfall and "Rolling in Deep"

Aerosmith- "Dream on" and "Living on the Edge"

A-ha - "Take me on"

The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun" and "We gotta get out of this place"

The Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun"

Beyonece - "Freedom"

Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"

Celine Dion - "My heart will go on"

CCR - "Fortunate Son"

Earth Wind and Fire - "September"

Eddy Grant - "Electric Avenue"

Elton John - "Tiny Dancer and Rocket Man"

Everlast - "Jump Around"

Foo Fighters - My Hero

Free - "All right now"

Guns n Roses - "Sweet Child o Mine" and "Live and let die"

Isaac Hayes - "Hold on I'm coming"

Johnny Mar - "Please please please let me get what I want"

Leonard Cohen - "Hallelujah"

Linkin Park - In the End

Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma

Neil Young - Rocking in the Free world

Nickelback - Photograph

Nico Vega - Beast

The Ojays - Love Train

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy train

Panic at the disco - High Hopes

Pharrell Williams - Happy

Phil Collins - In the air tonight

Prince - Purple Rain

Queen - We are the Champions

REM - It's the end of the world as we know it

Rihanna - Don't stop the music

Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want (the irony)

Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing compares 2 u

Tom Petty - I won't back down

Twisted Sister - We're not gonna take it

Village People - YMCA and Macho Man

White Stripes - 7 nation army

Yoann Lemoine - Run boy run

Sauce

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slrpnk.net

To be fair, completely missing the actual message of “Born in the USA” is a longstanding republican tradition.

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My guess is… they got some one managing trumps twitter to post it so they could boost sales.

Because. I mean. Who’s actually listening to nickleback? And not, like, just at a strip club?

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lemmy.beru.co

Ha ha. 15. Rage Against The Machine. Having visions of Trump arriving at the podium along with Killing In The Name

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lemmy.ca

I'm sure Mike Love of the Beach Boys didn't mind Trump using their music. He's a massive conservative douchebag.

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Brian Wilson and Al Jardine have been pretty openly against the Orange One using their music. But yeah... Mike Love's gonna Mike Love. Not sure why Bruce Johnston still associates with him.

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Artyomreply
lemm.ee

Jack White too as of this morning.

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fedia.io

Really? Damn. First time hearing about this.

Edit: oh, it was a different Jack White. I was thinking of the White Stripes guy.

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This is the article that’s confused me.

Edit: the Wikipedia page for the Jack White that founded the White Stripes still (as of 5:22PM EST) hasn’t updated to include his death, and they’re usually pretty on top of stuff like this. I don’t think it was him.

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No, sorry they've all kicked the bucket...David Bowie and Prince died in 2016, and Kenny Rogers died in 2020.

Edit: Oh, now I get it.

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lemmy.world

How old are you?

She was well after my time in terms of marketing and promotion but I definitely knew who she was and what her music was.

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Yeah, my introduction to her music was riding in the car with my late fifty-something year old coworker and he had her album playing.

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I'm 34. I also pretty much never hear new music though, so I'm sure that played a part.

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I also had never heard of Lorde until South Park lol. I didn't hear my first song by her IRL until like 2011/2012 with Royals.

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startrek.website

They should release an album, "NOW That's What I Call Never Trump", but a better title.

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Madelenareply
lemmy.world

I'm glad Bowie is still alive. Maybe the timeline has been fixed?

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It's only Freddie that's dead from Queen, tho. And he's not even a founding member, iconic as he may be.

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It would be great if someone rickrolled Trump at one of his rallies just so Rick Astley could join that list.

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Everytime I see an article about an artist that ordered a cease and desist, all the sudden music experts come out of the woodwork. "BuT THeY pAID fOr aLl thE RiGHTs aNd caN Do whatEver ThEY WAnt with IT"

It usually ends with "what a washed up performer anyways".

Go back to your Kid Rock.

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The Black Eyed Peas "Where is the Love" is one of my favorite songs. Trump should never play that because it talks directly against him.

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I thought Bruce Springsteen told him no for "Born in the USA?" The list is so long, it is not surprising that it could be incomplete. Did Taylor Swift have to shut him down too?

I am just trying to picture Trump using "Killing in the Name of."

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lemmy.world

Did he ever use her music? If not, it wouldn't make sense to tell him to stop.

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Coriganreply
lemm.ee

Nothing wrong with a preemptive "don't do it"

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lemmy.world

Didn’t expect to see Skynard on there. Though my wife pointed out that while I have a mental tableau of their music the lyrics don’t reflect it

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lemmy.world

He makes music that appeals to the people who don't understand the lyrics in music. Same story with people think Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen is some patriotic song about how great the US of A is when it is the opposite.

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lemmy.world

Also it sounds like their music is more anti coastal elitism, which is certainly an orange flag, but Sweet Home Alabama certainly looks to be a song of “quit blaming Alabama democrats for the actions of an Orange County republican president”.

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lemmy.world

? That song came put in the mid seventies. It was a response to a Neil Young song called southern man that trashed rednecks.

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cmbabulreply
lemmy.world

You know Lynyrd Skynyrd is a band named after a gym coach and not an individual person like Bruce Springsteen rigbt?

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I mean there was a man named that but he didn’t create Free Bird

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Just 30? Either the rest don't care or they are hoping to profit off the publicity of saying "no" if the Trump campaign does use some of their music.

Like most "stars" they are more about themselves than the general good.

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lemmy.world

Nickelback? 😂

That must be the one he chose, not his staff

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auzyreply
lemmy.world

Some people...

It was clearly a joke anyway.

That being said, I'm not fussed about down votes tbh...

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lemmy.world

it's like its own Hall of Fame of legendary artists, and then Nickelback.

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lemm.ee

Nickelback bad, updoots to the left fellow redditors 😎

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lemmy.ml

Not like they really have a say. Record companies own the rights to their music

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Isn't there some minutiae with that? I recall for sampling music (voices, that is), you need permission from both the artist and the record company. If you can't get the record company, the artist can come in and do a recording just for the purpose.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Even that young Gen Z'er, Miley Cyrus, is too smart for that a-hole!

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