10 (four) times musicians told politicians to stop using their music

[niyarav]

Eminem recently demanded Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stop using his song Lose Yourself on the campaign trail, so here are 10 (four) other times politicians were told to quit using artists' music and how those politicians responded mostly it's quotes of musicians talking shit about politicians.
Rage Against the Machine vs Paul

Comments

[ladychips]

any politician trying to use rage against the machine should be smacked upside the head

[gillenvillain]

Right? I don't care what party at this point. Just don't.

I gotta lmfao when hardcore right wingers quote or say they like RATM and I'm just *confused face*. Can you read??? Or is it lack of comprehension skills of what the lyrics mean?

I love Tom ripping their assholes publicly. Always puts a smile on my face. Especially the one where he had to explain that YES he is a Harvard grad in specific political sciences and knows what the fuck he's talking about.

[you_hermit_crab]

Tom continually speaking out against them is my favorite thing. I love him. I really can't understand any conservative who is a fan of RATM. Like... do you not know the lyrics? Is it literally just the music for you? I am truly at a loss here.

[niyarav]

Is it like those people who use break-up/sad songs at their weddings and don't realise? They just never thought that far into it? I also don't get it

[you_hermit_crab]

I always laugh at Good Riddance being the wedding song for so many people when it's so clearly a breakup song lol. I mean the title alone...

[niyarav]

They tried to help people out with the title but critical thinking isn't for everyone

[archersangel]

I read somewhere that people tell Sting that Every Breath You Take was the song they had their first dance to at their wedding. And he's disturbed by that, because it's a song about a stalker.

[niyarav]

I'm absolutely guilty of listening to songs without thinking about the lyrics but if it was for my wedding idk I'd probably check it wasn't about a crime

[gillenvillain]

Chances are they don't read or just don't care. They just be banging to the music and feeling like badasses.

[artsyfartsy01]

the amount of people I've had to explain to what Killing In The Name Of is about, is more than 10
like the media literacy is not literacying