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[–] [email protected] 168 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the worst part isn't even how paralyzingly stupid they are, it's that they're proud of that fact

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucking Paul Ryan cited RATM as his favorite band. These are not smart people.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't know about the campaign itself, but his minions are fond of "Killing in the name of" being played in support of blue lives matter of all things and to convey their "Fuck your feelings" mantra.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/trump-rage-against-the-machine-election-video-b1667195.html

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I am amazed they don't use Bulls on Parade....

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can add Jack White and the White Stripes to this.

https://lemmy.world/post/19223539

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Haha, I suppose I was too late.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

" 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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I can't tell if that's supposed an insult or a compliment nor for whom.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Did Prince come back from the dead?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The corpse formerly known as Prince

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

God I wish.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing Prince and Bowie probably did prior to the 2016 election.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

You know you are really hated when Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon agree on something.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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"?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...Does the campaign realize what House of the Rising Sun is about?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or "Keep on Rocking in the Free World"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's not important. As long as the Voters don't know or don't care, it does the Job

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

love how halfway through you just gave up "quoting" the song names lol

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Jack White too as of this morning.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit! David Bowie, Prince, and Kenny Rogers are alive!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

TIL Lorde wasn't made up by South Park.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Zombie Prince! 🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️🧟‍♀️

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