Take that! Ha! I'm not much for politics, but when politicians use music for their campaigns without consenting the artist it really ticks me off! I mean seriously, you can't fucking ask?!
The band is putting up their dukes against and is ready to bring it! According to Billboard Magazine, the band has a problem with Romney using their track 'Panic Switch' as part of his campaign against incumbent Democratic president Barack Obama. The election will take place on December 17.
"We don't like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don't like the Romney campaign," singer and guitarist Brian Aubert said in a statement. "We're nice, approachable people. We won't bite. Unless you're Mitt Romney!"
And this is true. The local residents are not only approachable, but incredibly talented and down to earth. He added that the group had been "very close to just letting this go because the irony was too good." However, "while he is inadvertently playing a song that describes his whole campaign, we doubt that 'Panic Switch' really sends the message he intends," he said.
During the last Presidential campaign in 2008, the Foo Fighters asked Republican candidate John McCain to stop using their track 'My Hero'. " The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song," the band said at the time.
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