30-year-old Seattle-bred quintet band, Foo Fighters, became the latest in a growing list of artists seeking to stop the use of their songs at Trump rallies. The group threatened to issue a cease and desist letter to Trump’s campaign team shortly after the 45th US President welcomed lifelong Democrat, Robert F. Kennedy Jnr., on stage to the tune of the 1997 classic, “my hero”, in an unprecedented alliance that has sent Democratic party into veiled panic.
Facts have now emerged that the Trump campaign secured permission to use the track under the Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) political entities licensing agreement which grants clients authorization of use for over 15 million recorded tracks by thousands of artists including Foo Fighters. Having been licensed to BMI, the Foo fighters have neither rights nor control over Trump’s use of their track.
Unobvious as it may seem, locally famous artists like Foo Fighters with a waning relevance, benefit a global exposure from Trump’s use of their music at Republican rallies. So far in this election cycle, Hayes III, son of the deceased singer, late Isaac Hayes, and Canadian singer, Celine Dion, who currently suffers from stiff persons syndrome, are two other artistes who have requested a halt in the use of their songs at Trump rallies.
Per an NYT report, artistes like Foo fighters, Celine Dion and Isaac Hayes among others, align with the Democrat party in a bid to maintain appeal to their fanbase—some of whom are awash with left-wing media bias, glory in cancel culture, and are conditioned to put feelings over facts for political reasoning.
With the latest addition of Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat presidential candidate, an Iraqi war veteran and current Hawaii congress senator, to the Trump transition team, rational Democrats are concerned about the state of the party’s internal politics since disgracefully expelling Joe Biden from his rightly-won presidential candidate position in February.
Perhaps, the Foo fighters may concern itself with Biden’s outrageous policy on millionaire taxes which levies a 25% tax on individuals with a net worth above $100 million. This essentially acts to impoverish the Foo fighters whose three decades of labour and $320 million net worth are at risk. Its all part of Democrats disastrous economic policy which has left millions of Americans with nothing to spare on concert tickets and streaming fees, whilst millions of taxpayers dollars get lavished daily on the war in Ukraine and illegal migrants at the border.