Posted on 06/28/2011 12:46:04 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Among the many traditions for presidential candidates on the campaign trail are kissing babies and getting kiss-offs from rock musicians over unwanted use of their songs. A day into her campaign for the White House, Michele Bachmann is already facing the latter custom.
Tom Petty has sent the Minnesota congresswoman a cease-and-desist order after she used his 1977 classic "American Girl" as background music at her kickoff rally Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, a source close to the singer has confirmed.
This is not the first time Petty has sent out such an order: George W. Bush's team also received one in 2000 when the future president used "I Won't Back Down" at campaign stops. Nor is it the first time a candidate has used "American Girl:" Hillary Clinton also spun it at many of her presidential campaign rallies in 2008, without any complaint from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer -- who is otherwise relatively apolitical in his music and public life.
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Song sucks, anyhow
This is what acid, cocaine, booze and meth combined with Liberalism will do to your brain.
Petty, Tom.
1977?
Good lord I’m getting old.
Did she actually think Petty would be OK with it?
I like his music, but I also know that he’s a drug-addled leftist douchenozzle.
Maybe we need some songs from the Revolutionary War period. Appropriate for our current needs & no writer to whine about the use of the song.
Tough.
As long as his record label is getting checks, Petty can eat it.
How does that work? The C&D part. Afaik, radio stations and performers have to pay royalty payments to ASCAP and BMI. While it might bring heartbreak to Tommy, what right does he have to dictate where the recordings are played?
Yeah, I don’t know.....I guess you can sue over anything you like...
Why not just use the proceeds from her using the song, and send it to her opponent’s campaign?
"the use of a recorded song at rallies or public events should never be inferred by any intelligent person as an endorsement by the artist who recorded the song. We chose this song because we like it and felt that the song itself was reflective of our image and campaing theme, and we have paid the appropriate licensing fees for legal use of the song without any discrimination against the artist over his political views."
Don’t songs go into the public domain after 25 years?
Tom Petty is being a jerk but legally, he’s within his rights. Republicans should just avoid using any contemporary music because 99% of the authors are going to be drug-addled liberals and will refuse permission to use some song they wrote 40 years ago, thinking this demonstrates political sophistication instead of just being , well, petty.
Tom...get to the point....smoke another joint... then STFU.
I was thinking the same thing...But, I think it is 50 years...
I always think of Silence of the Lambs when I hear it anyways.
Freegards
Candidates using pop songs to make them seem “cool” to the sheeple is just another example of blurring the lines between politics and showbiz. Lame.
Did she pay the royalties? Heart had to shut-up about Barracuda when it came out that somebody’d paid theirs.
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