They did this for McCains campaign also I believe. It all equates to nothing as one time public playing of a recording amounts to nearly nothing in royalties, and nobody magically decided they were/weren't voting for a candidate based on hearing Foo Fighters in the background.

As a sidenote, the Foo Fighters have probably 30+ songs that are better than "My Hero" so why is that one played so damn much?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because 90% of people only recognize the chorus of most songs, or even just a few words from the chorus.

Republicans in particular have a history of using 'Born on the 4th of July' even though the entire song is very critical of American society. The chorus, alone, isolated from context, seems to be about patriotism though!

Similarly, My Hero has a chorus about My Hero, so when played near Trump, that means he is their hero. Don't think about the rest of the lyrics, they don't matter.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or "Keep in rocking in a free world"

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There are a substantial amount of Republicans that think RATM is raging against what they are raging against.

All they heard was 'Fuck you I won't do what you tell me' and ... well literally none of any of their other lyrics apparently.

[–] ramirezmike@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I live in the south and ended up seeing a southern rock band a month ago. Literally waving flags as part of their set..They finished one song by riffing on killing in the name and the crowd ate it up and I was like uhhhhhhhh

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

My Hero is their best song though.

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Because of "Aim for the bushes"