Why I [Grace Slick] Decided To License Starship's Music To Chick-fil-A

[Stonepounder]

(Note: This op-ed is by Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship/Jefferson Airplane fame writing in the 1st Person.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizblog/2017/02/21/why-i-decided-to-license-starships-music-to-chick-fil-a/#fc25a007e52e

Recently an ad agency asked me if they could use a song I sang on, in 1987, for a TV commercial. I didn’t immediately tell them to go f**k themselves. After all, I’ve licensed my music to advertise someone else’s product before. In 1967, Jefferson Airplane wrote a psychedelic jingle about white rabbits jeans that’s a damn classic (Google it!). But that was for Levi Strauss & Co. This time, the agency wanted the Starship tune “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” for a very different kind of enterprise: Chick-fil-A.

Chick-fil-A pisses me off. The Georgia-based company has a well-documented history of funding organizations, through their philanthropic foundation WinShape, that are against gay marriage. In interviews, CEO Dan T. Cathy has critiqued gay-rights supporters who “have the audacity to define marriage” and said they are bringing “God’s judgment” upon the nation.

I firmly believe that men should be able to marry men, and women women. I am passionately against anyone who would try to suppress this basic human right. So my first thought when "Check"-fil-A came to me was, “F**k no!”

But then I decided, “F**k yes.”

So that was my voice you heard on the Chick-fil-A commercial during the Grammy Awards telecast. I am donating every dime that I make from that ad to Lambda Legal, the largest national legal organization working to advance the civil rights of LGBTQ people, and everyone living with HIV. Admittedly it’s not the millions that WinShape has given to organizations that define marriage as heterosexual. But instead of them replacing my song with someone else's and losing this opportunity to strike back at anti-LGBTQ forces, I decided to spend the cash in direct opposition to "Check"-fil-A’s causes – and to make a public example of them, too. We’re going to take some of their money, and pay it back.

[msongs]

1. she has many interesting/entertaining interview vids on youtube. love em all..mostly nt

[Honeycombe8]

2. Smart. She's nobody's fool.nt

[dchill]

3. Good one, Grace! Thank you.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Hah! I'll bet Chick-fill-A never expected that. Good for Grace.

[in2herbs]

5. I do what I can to put them out of business -- never eat there. nt

[3Hotdogs]

6. Kinda like the people who donate to gay rights causes for every minute Westboro shows up on display.

[Paladin]

7. You had me in 1967, Grace.

But what a profoundly smooth move against the douchebags at Chick-fil-A.

[brush]

8. Didn't that company also come out strongly against Obama...

along with Papa John's pizza?

[ROB-ROX]

9. ROCK ON GRACE

I personally have never bought anything from this company!! I have no idea where any of their stores are located (Nor Cal)?? I have thought this organization was evil so their food must be tainted. I am so glad the money will go to a GREAT cause which will help many people. CHEERS