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R.E.M. Asks Fox To Stop Playing One of Their Songs
Fox was playing “Losing My Religion” as background on the story about the Dems booing God.
R.E.M. got a smackdown.
The rock band R.E.M. released a statement on its website asking Fox News to stop playing their song “Losing My Religion.” According to R.E.M., Fox News was playing the popular song during the Democratic convention.
Here’s R.E.M.’s statement, posted on their website:
R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night. R.E.M. today, through its music publisher, Warner-Tamerlane Music, demanded that Fox News cease and desist from continuing its unlicensed and unauthorized use of the song. Michael Stipe said, “We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage. Our music does not belong there.”
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UPDATE: A Fox News spokesman responds: “FOX News Channel’s use of an R.E.M. song during Thursday’s edition of Fox & Friends was in full accordance with its license agreements with all appropriate parties. Nevertheless, we’re always flattered to have this much attention for a song selection and we hope R.E.M. was able to satisfy their publicity fix.”
MAJ Mike
September 8th, 2012
BURN!!
That’ll leave a mark.
Immortal Fish
September 8th, 2012
As opposed to MSDNC’s puffadder brand of reportage, no doubt.
cfm990
September 8th, 2012
Everybody Hurts…. Sometime.
sig94
September 8th, 2012
Went to the Weekly Standard site and listened to the song in question. Just another faggot poor me douche-bag whiny white bread rendition of teenage angst by a group of thirty-something liberal meatheads.
Claudia
September 8th, 2012
Dang. I like R.E.M. Stupid idiots.
historicus
September 8th, 2012
Ha! Nice takedown by Fox. It’s like artists have never heard of licensing agreements. Guess those royalty checks must appear by magic.
I’m sure Michael Stipe was “losing his religion” after hearing that.
66chevelle
September 8th, 2012
I tire of Michael Stipe’s pud huffer brand of hipster douchery.
CrustyB
September 8th, 2012
REM is too stoned to realize that, by complaining, they’re bringing even more attention to a story their political party would rather no one knew about.
bitterclinger
September 8th, 2012
I quit F&F and most of FOX a while ago, but I must say that picking that song for the story was inspired.
Dr. Tar
September 8th, 2012
Wow, am I getting old. I remember when REM was relevant. Not anymore.
chiefillinicake
September 8th, 2012
That big pink welt on your face, Mike? It’s from Fox just giving you a dickslap.
Callmelennie
September 8th, 2012
Apparently, you can’t use an REM song to point out a result that REM called for in the song itself.
I see that reaction from libs all the time
reddecaesari
September 8th, 2012
michael stipe lost his religion many moons ago.
might have coincided with his love of buggery.
Saxindacity
September 8th, 2012
Rapid Eye Movement…slow brain syntax?
FreeMan & Sarah on Vacation
September 8th, 2012
He has a point, Can’t lose what you never had.
scr_north
September 8th, 2012
Michael Stipe has always been the political thug pushing the band into supporting gun control laws, Mike Dukakis, John Kerry just about all the politically correct crap out there. Like a lot of wealthy entertainers this “celebrity liberalism” is “an entirely pain-free form of rebellion that they’re adopting. There’s no risk involved in it whatsoever, but quite a bit of shoring up of customer loyalty.” (quote from Paul Noyer, former editor of Q magazine. That quote pretty well describes most of these celebrity liberals who parrot the lines given to them from someone else.
66chevelle
September 8th, 2012
I guess we should feel a little sorry for Stipe and the boys. REM got their fame in the waning days of the Carter administration, and here it is deja vu all over again for them:
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland,Yeah, yeah, yeah…
The information nation took their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons
1980, 84, 88, 92 too, too
How to be what you can be, junk, damn junk in your energy
How to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes
They amplified the autumn, 1979
Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass
TV tells a million lies. The paper’s terrified to report
Anything that isn’t handed on a presidential spoon,
I’m just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man (fuck ‘em)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland…”
Stranded in Sonoma
September 8th, 2012
@Saxindacity — No. It just means they’re perpetually asleep.
cakes
September 8th, 2012
Hey Fox, REM has a sing called ” it’s the end of the world as we know it” you may have a chance to use, just sayin.
Callmelennie
September 8th, 2012
I see platinum, Cakeybakes
It’s the end of Obama as we know it
And I feel fine
Holder2013
September 8th, 2012
Fox knows how to pick ‘em. Perfect fit for the ungodly heathens.
Claudia
September 8th, 2012
10,000 thumb ups for you, Callmelennie!!!
Bob M.
September 8th, 2012
Where DEMOCRAPS are concerned, we need Weird Al to make a more appropriate parody – “Losing my LUNCH!”
Xavier
September 8th, 2012
Fox Asks REM To Stop Pretending They’re Musicians
Roscoe P. Soultrane
September 8th, 2012
Well, it’s safe to say that they are no longer shiny, happy people holding hands.
NO MO OBAMY
September 9th, 2012
Michael WHO ?
ghastly
September 9th, 2012
And… this one goes out to the one I left behind me. REM was… a simple prop …in the 80s — you know the rest — to occupy my time. I’ve grown up having to live in this world, but REM is still sporting the brain of a piss ant.