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Neil Young gives Tim Walz permission for his song – after he sued Trump for using it (www.independent.co.uk)

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Trump’s campaign also tried to use Beyonce’s “Freedom,” but stopped when she threatened to sue

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 75 points 3 months ago

The song is "Rockin' in the Free World". Hopefully Young asked Walz, "are you sure you want to use that one?"

There’s colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There’s a warning sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can

[Chorus]

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There's an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

[Chorus]

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We've got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive

[Chorus]

[-] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 100 points 3 months ago

It actually makes sense as a campaigning song to me as long as your platform is about trying to address the social problems the song is highlighting.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 66 points 3 months ago

I guarantee Walz knows what it's about, and he chose it for that reason.

Hes one smaht cookie, kid.

[-] zelifcam@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

He does.

https://lemmy.world/post/18392285

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Holy fucking shit! He's on a different level now!

Grateful Dead moccasins!

[-] AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Just a reminder that Ann Coulter and Tucker fucking Carlson are "deadheads" too. Walz is great and I think he gets it, but the evidence of that is what he's done not the band merch he wears.

[-] zelifcam@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This thread is about whether or not Walz was aware of the lyrics of a Neil Young song. Being a fan of The Grateful Dead added to the discussion.

Walz seems like a respectable person. We will see how that plays out. Charles Manson and Mark Chapman were obsessed with Beatles, but I don’t associate them to everyone else who enjoys their music. So I’m not really clear on the point being made here.

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Wicked smaht,

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

WHERE IS MY TOILET PAPER?

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Many people don't listen to the main lyrics or understand the meaning of songs, but just like the chorus.

"Born in the USA" is another example.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 23 points 3 months ago

Same as the Magaites dancing to Killing In The Name a while back during the BLM protests. It was obvious that the only part of the song they cared about was "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me"

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago

I'd love to hear one of them answer who were the "forces" that burn crosses. Probably some sort of imaginary vaccine cop.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Or Paul Ryan and anything by RAtM.

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

a team is one your comment just reminded me of, thanks.

And some mandatory songs that always came up that my memory serves... semi charmed life by third eye blind, hey ya by outcast, every breath you take by the police, escape (Pina colada song) by Rupert Holmes, macarena ...

Ok I got bored trying to remember them all if anyone wants to add ..

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

"Hook" by Blues Traveller. "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Which was used for NJ in the roll call. I laughed a bit.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

It's questionable there, but it's a hell of a song so they could be earnestly saying Springsteen was a NJ treasure for writing a fantastic protest song. Buuuut... they probably just liked the assumed pride of the chorus.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

AMERICAN WOMAN

[-] Artemis@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Which is also a song by a Canadian band 😅

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago

The DNC had permission for every song in the roll call. That was a major flex, and endorsement from all of those artists.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 51 points 3 months ago

Oh hey, are we returning to a time where we can all agree that Nazis are bad?

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 16 points 3 months ago

Was there ever a time where we all agreed on that?

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

When John Belushi said "I hate Illinois nazis" and drove them all into the river in The Blues Brothers, there wasn't anybody around who didn't think that was funny.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

I'll bet the Illinois Nazis didn't find it too funny

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago

Won't someone please think of the Nazis?

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

The poor Nazis will never be able to live with themselves after all this cyberbullying

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

2007....

All the "I Don't See Color!" People started to think otherwise when they realized "Oh wait, minorities are allowed to be in charge of things? Fuck it, I'm with Hitler!"

[-] Acid2688@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I'm not holding my breath.

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The pendulum swings.

[-] experbia@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

been noticing the conservatives on Twitter freaking out over the music rights thing, rattling on about how "music should be for everyone". which is a hoot, because like, wait, you're telling me you want to take the property of someone else, which they invested time and money into producing, and redistribute it to all people who want it?? HMMMM that sounds like something...

I've had a few folks delete their tweets but for the most part they just ignore it or call me very stupid and evil (their go-to when they have no argument) lmao. I actually engaged one Maga musician because he was afraid of what would happen if we allowed the right's "musical socialism" discussion to continue.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

What happened to Kid Rock? The greatest celebrity there ever was

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 months ago

He was last seen eating French Cries while being taken away in the whaaaambulance.

[-] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 3 months ago

i heard they administered Crylenol

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

He couldn’t do anything of note without amphetamines and Warren Zevon

[-] BeanSwellington@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Who could?

[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 3 points 3 months ago

Hey now, he's just an excitable boy.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

“Mr. Zevon, I got an idea: Bawitdaba of London”

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

As a Canadian, his music is like crack to me

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Lol I saw him at a musical festival near Barrie like 8 years ago, and I remember someone from the group beside me saying "I swear to god if he says Monsanto one more time..." and then then the literal next song started with a big power chord and "Mooonnnssaaaaaannnntoooooo" and they stood up and left.

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Lol that's what I've heard. I adore his folk music, but his concerts I hear just devolve into shitty political rallies.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

That's actually hilarious

[-] proper@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

yep

[-] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

Can he even sue? I thought UMG or Atlantic owned his music.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

How can ~~s~~he ~~slap~~ sue?

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