“We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage. Our music does not belong there,” lead singer Michael Stipe said in a statement."
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/07/fox-news-fires-back-at-rem-in-losing-my-religion-cease-and-desist-fight/#ixzz25qkizeLC
They should be Shiny Happy People, it’s the most play their music has gotten in years!
They have a point. The Democrats have long had no religion to lose.
They had just finished opening for Foghat in a Holiday Inn bar in Des Moines, when they saw it on the TV.
Stipe, a virulent sodomite, used to rant about Ronald Reagan’s AIDs policies in between songs.
Which is why their audience steadily became flaccid over the years.
I thought these old fags had already died.
Michael, your band broke up. The frat boys you hate were the ones who bought your records. It's over. Just shut up or overdose like a rock star.
Of course this has absolutely nothing to do with the singer being a flaming faggot! /sarc
My wife is a singer and recording artist (if you want to hear what real music sounds like, try this: http://tinyurl.com/8zcz67k ), so I’ve had to learn quite a bit about music licensing. Every time some narrow-minded leftist twit whines about people whose politics he disagrees with daring to play his music at a rally, I always make it a point to spread this fact far and wide:
If the song is licensed to ASCAP or BMI, and you purchase an ASCAP/BMI public performance license, which virtually every public venue has, you can play any song in the library as many times as you want for any audience. If the composer wanted to maintain control over that, he should’ve never let the song out of his bedroom and signed a contract to let the evil capitalist licensing company collect royalties and send him the dirty money of fans he disapproves of.
TV play is different, as is the use of a song in an ad, film, commercial, etc. But if Fox says they had the appropriate license, I believe it, because that’s SOP for TV stations. One reason ASCAP and BMI exist is so you can make blanket licensing deals and not have to track down every composer of every song you want to play to get permission.
In other words, Fox is right: all this is just a pathetic show for publicity and for Michael to reaffirm his leftwing moron bona fides to all his fellow travelers. Play all the REM you want at public performance venues, and if Michael Stipe doesn’t like it, he can go whistle up a rope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds50-nwAGpw
Wayne’s World - (REM Everybody Hurts Parody)
R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity
Folks called REM southern
Not...Yankees......none born or early reared in Dixie and it shows
I liked Radio Free Europe then they went soft.....became The Byrds part II
My wife toured in their circle of clubs around the south ....relationship with a contemporary of theirs who was big then too......she knew them.....she said Buck was a drunk but not a sissy
The rest....girly men.....she tired of the rock life.....met me and became a Williamson county housewife mommy....true story
Girls outgrow rock stars....least mine did
And Berry really wanted to be a farmer instead
And that Stipe did not really have an affair with Natalie Merchant
The ironic thing is that “losing my religion” has nothing to do with ‘religion’; is a euphemism for losing one’s temper and cussing.
In the song, Michael Stipe sings the lines “That’s me in the corner/That’s me in the spotlight/Losing my religion”.
The phrase “losing my religion” is an expression from the southern region of the United States that means losing one’s temper or civility, or “being at the end of one’s rope.” Stipe told The New York Times the song was about romantic expression.
He told Q that “Losing My Religion” is about “someone who pines for someone else.
It’s unrequited love, what have you.” Stipe compared the song’s theme to “Every Breath You Take” by The Police, saying, “It’s just a classic obsession pop song.
I’ve always felt the best kinds of songs are the ones where anybody can listen to it, put themselves in it and say, ‘Yeah, that’s me.’
[was Stipe pitching a hissy fit?]
Give the freaks thier song back. Can’t tell whether thier men or democratic women, SCARY!
Fair Use argument. Neat. Screw R.E.A.M.
For years, I couldn’t fathom how people thought it was okay to illegally download music. Over time however, I realized that it was just payback for all these liberal turds who find it appropriate to whine and spout their agenda at every opportunity. Also, is it just me, or is it only American bands that pull this? I’ve never heard Glass Tiger complaining when they play their stuff on The Five. I doubt we’ll hear Duran Duran whine about their use of “Girls On Film” yesterday. It’s moronic coke-heads like REM and RATM who feel the need to ram their agenda down people’s throats, even when they have no legitimate, legal right to their music once it is signed to the record company.
REM, another band I must remind myself never to send money to... a shame, seeing as how I enjoy “Orange Crush”, but this Stripe douchebag clearly doesn’t have a spine.
Hey R.E.M.
U.P. Y.O.U.R.S.
Hmm, they want their music to be out in the public forum so it can make them money, but they want to whine when someone uses it for something they don’t believe in.
How about we all just cease using your worthless excuse for “music” and then you can go to your graves broke and forgotten. Oh wait... They pretty much already are...
Hey Stipe, your “music” doesn’t belong in an elevator either, but that is the last place I heard an REM song.