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.
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?
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 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.
I thought after 25 years songs became public domain. Can anyone confirm?
Isn’t that a Jim/Roger McGwinn song? Use his version. Sounds almost the same anyway. Take that, Tommy!
Petty knows three chords and lately he has forgotten at least one.
Lots of good county songs out there with many artists behind those songs that would LOVE to see them used in this manor.
Petty Tom can FOAD.