even donald trump’s rallies are raising money for harris and walz now you love to see it.
Anything Trump = downvote
Does Beehaw even have downvotes enabled? Blahaj doesn’t. Because if so, you just “pissing into the wind” from a federation standpoint.
No downvote button for Beehaw. But, we have a block button, which due to who we are / aren’t federated with, I think I used twice in the last 10 months or so since I joined.
Truthfully, I haven’t really needed it. It’s pretty chill and people seem to have more reasonable discussions.
Nobody cares
looking at Dave Grohl walking by
There goes my hero! Watch him as he goes!
They could send her some of that Amazon money if they really cared.
Trump should just avoid playing any sort of rock music in general
Can’t they just use like Ted Nugent or something, he wouldn’t mind them using Cat Scratch Fever I’m sure.
They must have wanted a musician who sounds good.
And doesn’t shit in his pants to dodge drafts.
kid rock :[
the could’ve sued him to stop…
They could, but unless they own their own catalogue and license the music in a way that lets them decide the context for its usage, the lawsuit probably wouldn’t go anywhere.
There’s also something in copyright law called moral rights which can’t be transferred, although they can be waived. It’s possible to retain moral rights even if you sell your music to someone, and moral rights allow you assert some control over your works where you think misuse of it would cause harm to your reputation, amongst other things. I’m not a copyright lawyer or anything, but I’ve dealt with a bit of this stuff through open source software licensing, and it’s come up a few times when I was transferring licenses from companies I used to work for. If they didn’t waive moral rights then that would perhaps be an avenue to prevent misuse, but again, an actual copyright lawyer would be able to better determine that.
Dammit. You’re probably right, and I hate this situation.
Fun fact, the Foo fighters own all of their music. They’re one of the few if only bands that actually do. The main reason is the fact that after Nirvana Dave grohl had fuck you money. This is one of the reasons why that band is so special. For them it is all about the music. It didn’t start out as a struggle. All of their catalog is a passion project, and that’s pretty cool.
That said, I doubt a lawsuit would really go anywhere.
Because cheeto man wouldn’t cough up anyway - he’d slime his way out of it.
They did this for McCains campaign also I believe. It all equates to nothing as one time public playing of a recording amounts to nearly nothing in royalties, and nobody magically decided they were/weren’t voting for a candidate based on hearing Foo Fighters in the background.
As a sidenote, the Foo Fighters have probably 30+ songs that are better than “My Hero” so why is that one played so damn much?
Because 90% of people only recognize the chorus of most songs, or even just a few words from the chorus.
Republicans in particular have a history of using ‘Born on the 4th of July’ even though the entire song is very critical of American society. The chorus, alone, isolated from context, seems to be about patriotism though!
Similarly, My Hero has a chorus about My Hero, so when played near Trump, that means he is their hero. Don’t think about the rest of the lyrics, they don’t matter.
Or “Keep in rocking in a free world”
There are a substantial amount of Republicans that think RATM is raging against what they are raging against.
All they heard was ‘Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me’ and … well literally none of any of their other lyrics apparently.
“killing in the name is a pro police anthem” - republicans, probably
“Those who work forces are the same who burn crosses” is just pointing out the cops are on my side.
I live in the south and ended up seeing a southern rock band a month ago. Literally waving flags as part of their set…They finished one song by riffing on killing in the name and the crowd ate it up and I was like uhhhhhhhh
Because of “Aim for the bushes”
My Hero is their best song though.
