The White Stripes plan to sue the Air Force/US Govt 4 stealing their song
Published on Tuesday 2/9/2010 @ 12:03 PM by the ALT REPORT RobotLink: http://www.billboard.com/news/white-stripes-protests-air-force-super-bowl-1004066018.story
Popular mainstream rock band sometimes marketed as indie the White Stripes had a ’shitty version’ of their song “Fell in Love With A Girl” ripped off and utilized in a Super Bowl commercial by the Air Force, a popular branch of the US military which uses jets to bomb Arab and terrorist hideouts. The White Stripes were not given ‘mad bank’ for the usage of their song [via commercial licensing].
It seems like they also got ‘mad pissed’ because they stole their song to promote the recruitment of dumb, minority soldiers to fight in a war that they don’t support. I remember back when George W. Bush was in office, it was good for artists to speak up against the government, but this is a risky move since they are theoretically ‘not supporting Obama.’
I wonder if this will hurt the White Stripes’ brand in the long run with mainstream markets. Even though their ‘classic rock’ sound appeals to the masses in Middle America, they might gain an anti-American brand. Theoretically, the band should be more patriotic, and lend their song to the campaign for free. I feel like I would rather have the US military branches ‘market themselves’ to the masses, as opposed to having some sort of mandatory draft.
Do u think the White Stripes should sue ’soccer’ for stealing the riff from their hit song “Seven Nation Army”? [via crowd chants]
When your song is ’stolen’/’sampled’, should you be proud that it was good/relevant?
By not supporting the Air Force marketing campaign, are they helping the terrorists?
Should we support Obama’s withdrawal plan?
Do the White Stripes wear red because they are ‘commies’?
Will their next album be mad boycotted/blacklisted by the US govt?
WWTAFD: What Would The Arcade Fire Do?
Will the US Air Force lose 40% of their enlistment by indie music fans?
16 comments to “The White Stripes plan to sue the Air Force/US Govt 4 stealing their song”
February 9th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
No one fucking cares about either!
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February 9th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
jack white is great/communist/capitalist
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February 9th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Wwtafd. That’s the best part of this. Is joining the airforce ironic?
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February 9th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
fuck the military.
fuck war.
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February 9th, 2010 at 7:10 pm
permisson?
spell check plz
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//////////Reply by Cool Face
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
@hey, Capitalization? Grammar check please.
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//////////Reply by hey
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 7:51 pm
@Cool Face, nice comeback, friend. of course, it’s scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as e-spergin goes, but what can you do? not much you can type in way of insults because I’m somewhat anonymous.
maybe next time you can write TWS’s whining letters with your supposedly perfect english. while you waste your time, i’ll bother capitalizing on a blog that has no merit whatsoever.
tldr : YOU RUDE PERSON YOU
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February 9th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
”Do u think the White Stripes should sue ’soccer’ for stealing the riff from their hit song “Seven Nation Army”? [via crowd chants]”.. so trippy hahahaha
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February 10th, 2010 at 2:32 am
haha good luck trying to sue THEM!!
by the way, your music SUCKS AIR FORCE NUTS.
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February 11th, 2010 at 1:20 am
the first thing I said when it came on was that the stripes should sue. It’s kinda fucked though going up against a US agency, I wonder who will prevail?
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February 11th, 2010 at 3:57 am
the Ohio State marching band plays 7 nation army at football games is that illegal. I hope not cuz it always gets me pumped up before they blow the big game. Oh and ur blog makes me happy. While I’m at it the “girls” album was a terrible let down after the “Lust for life” single made me steal it
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February 11th, 2010 at 10:04 am
composer of the song’s all like “never heard this song b4″ “i don’t even listen to this type of music” calling bullshit. pretty sure every american’s heard fell in luv w/ a gurl and he probably overheard the riff earlier that day laid it down in protools and was like wow, that sound great
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February 11th, 2010 at 11:07 am
cant they just shoot the white stripes ? i mean im willing to pay more taxes if the us army is going to execute lame bands :)
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February 12th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
for them to even attempt this takes balls
kudos white stripes
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February 13th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
they just dont want to look like they are suporting a usless war they say that in their message i myself was a little shaken when i saw the add and questiond jack white as a roll modle seeing he didnt give permision was great
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February 14th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
This seems like a very American response to the story. Confused and using “communism” as a synonym for bad. The White Stripes are the ones insisting that copyright and intellectual property rights be respected, and that the government can not just assume that it is okay to expropriate intellectual property.
Coming from a country with a prosperous mixed economy (free market and public ownership) I am puzzeled by your words and images. You seem to disdain collective effort for the public good, while at the same time opposing the rights of the creator to control how their creation is used.
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