Foo Fighters Talk McCain
Ξ October 20th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Foo Fighters, Hit Song, Politics |
The McCain campaign has been using a lot of songs without artists? permissions and they should have anticipated that someone is going to get mad at some point. They recently used the Foo Fighters? ?My Hero? for which the band was none too pleased about. The band said ?This isn?t the first time the McCain campaign has used a song without making any attempt to get approval or permission from the artist. It?s frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property. The saddest thing about this is that ?My Hero? was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.? The Foo Fighters, along with Heart, Van Halen, John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne all want to have the campaign stop using their songs.