The band join Neil Young in being used in The Donald’s presidential campaign. Time for left-wing politicians to start nicking conservative musicians’ tunesTo the warmup stages of the US presidential election,which are always the song-jacking capital of the world. If you’re an obviously left-leaning artist who has written a superficially upbeat song with undercurrents – or rather, tumultuous overcurrents – of anguished American self-reproach, or then chances are you can expect to hear it whipping a Donald Trump rally into orgasmic delirium over the next few months.acquire Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World,which was used by Trump at the official Trump Tower launch of his campaign for the Republican nomination back in June, including the lines: “We got a thousand points of light / For the homeless man /We got a kinder, or gentler,/ Machine gun hand /We got department stores and toilet paper / Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer / Got a man of the people, says preserve hope alive / Got fuel to burn, and got roads to drive.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com