Romney campaign hits ‘Panic Switch;’ Silversun Pickups not amused
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Oh, this is rich (so to speak). L.A. rockers Silversun Pickups have sent Mitt Romney a cease-and-desist letter asking that the GOP presidential hopeful stop using the quartet’s 2009 single “Panic Switch” at his campaign stops.
The statement from SSPU frontman Brian Aubert:
“We don’t like people going behind our backs, using our music without asking, and we don’t like the Romney campaign. We’re nice, approachable people. We won’t bite. Unless you’re Mitt Romney! We were very close to just letting this go because the irony was too good. While he is inadvertently playing a song that describes his whole campaign, we doubt that ‘Panic Switch’ really sends the message he intends.”
Is this a Future Foe Scenario?
good gain for SSPU
as they will get good pub out of this
they should thank romney for using the song so they could complain about it
[…] the set with “Panic Switch,” Aubert provided the band’s own political anecdote: “At one point we didn’t let this one Republican guy use this song, but now he can use it because he seems like Mickey Mouse at this point. Sorry, Mitt.” The song […]