Mike Mills of R.E.M.: "we do not condone the use of our music by this fraud and con man"

[Dennis Donovan]

Link to tweet

Mike Mills ❄️💨⛄️ ✔ @m_millsey

We are aware that the President* @realDonaldTrump continues to use our music at his rallies. We are exploring all legal avenues to prevent this, but if that’s not possible please know that we do not condone the use of our music by this fraud and con man.

1:58 PM - Jan 15, 2020

Get 'em Millsey!

[Newest Reality]

1. Good!

I am not saying that his people also pirated their music off the Internet, but you never know with that crowd of use and abuse.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Which song? This would seem appropriate "It's the End of the World as We Know It"

Low life gotta keep a griftin'.

[nolabear]

3. LOL! That's what I was going to say.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Radio Free Russia

They played "Losing My Religion" - must've gone over well with the fundies in the audience.

[mnmoderatedem]

12. losing my religion

would imply trump had religion to begin with. All evidence to the contrary.

[Cuthbert Allgood]

15. "Losing my religion" means getting mad.

For what it's worth.

[underpants]

5. He's used it before. He's mentioned in it.

And he clearly doesn't understand, or can't, the message of the song.

[Clash City Rocker]

8. World Leader Pretend?

Exhuming McCarthy?
Welcome to the Occupation?
Bad Day?
It’s the End of the World As We Know It?
Hollow Man?
Everybody Hurts?

There are so many appropriate songs.

[Moostache]

17. "Look who bought the myth, buy the jingle, buy America"

Not that they would EVER realize it, but that song would be a nice backhand to his idiot supporters...Exhuming McCarthy was always a favorite of mine from the REM catalog.

[Harker]

10. Lots of shiny, happy people at his fascist rallies.

Orange Crush, maybe?

[onenote]

6. The two songs used by Trump:

“Everybody Hurts” and “Losing My Religion” (seriously, these are the two used at his rally)

Go figure...

[yardwork]

13. Must be based on psychological studies.

Trump's propaganda is sourced from the best propagandists in the world - the KGB.

I'm sure there are well researched reasons why those songs resonate with Trump's base. I'm not a psychologist, but I guess that his base feel that they are abused by the liberal elites - thus "everybody hurts" - and of course we libs are stealing their religion - war on Christmas, etc - so they're losing their religion.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. U.S. Copyright law is on R.E.M.'s side -- send a cease and desist

[hughee99]

21. I'm not sure how much control Band members still have over their music.

They made a deal a few years ago with Universal, though I’m not sure of the details.

[rockfordfile]

9. That's because these un-American Nazis republicans are about nothing.

[Midnight Writer]

11. During Trump's campaign I noticed he used Sympathy for the Devil.

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You can't say he didn't let us know before the election what to expect.

In Trump's own words, "You knew I was a snake when you let me in!".

[GreenEyedLefty]

16. So much happens every day that I completely forgot about this.

Those aren't his words. That asshole co-opted the lyrics of the song "The Snake" (lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr.) to read at his rallies as a xenophobic trope. Unfortunately he and his idiotic followers are/were too stupid to see the irony of a snake reading "The Snake."

[Wounded Bear]

18. He also used "You Can't Always Get What You Want"...

[Hulk]

14. The con man needs to air his ted shit-my-pants nugents greatest hits

I'm sure his KKKlan rally cult wouldn't care...I sure wouldn't. Watching his rallies is painful. Watched a few early on...can't stomach the freaks and the mini-Mussolini's schtick.

[Dennis Donovan]

19. Millsey's swatting the haters like flies!

Link to tweet

[Blue Owl]

20. Orange Crush