Paul Ryan was forced to “take it” following rebuff by Twisted Sister lead man Dee Snider over the choice of “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as the Republican VP-designee’s intro song.
Snider denounced use of the 1984 hit at a recent Pennsylvania GOP rally. Romney’s running mate had “ … no right to choose and there ain’t no way we’ll lose it, this is our life, this is our song … you don’t know us, you don’t belong.”
Ryan as an opening act for Mitt Romney has not proven music to the ears of Snider’s fellow artists. Guitarist Tom Morello kicked out the jams after Ryan cited Rage Against the Machine as having a good beat that he could dance to.
Morello wrote in Rolling Stone that, ” … Ryan claims that he likes Rage’s sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don’t care for Paul Ryan’s sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage…”
Every four years, Republicans attempt to “rock the vote” through corporate takeover of popular anthems that champion the strife of the common man without living the life and actually getting their smooth, manicured hands dirty. Mitt Romney recently flipped “Panic Switch” by the Silversun Pickups without appropriate permissions as previously did Ronald Reagan with Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and GOP bottom dweller Sarah Palin’s misappropriation of “Barracuda” by Heart. ”I feel completely [expletive] over,” stated singer Nancy Wilson after Palin refused to cease and desist use of the song.
Sources indicate the campaign is now relegated to song selections from right-leaning country artists. “Achy Breaky Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus is under consideration, significant of the hurt feelings experienced by Paul Ryan following his public ostracism by 99% of the rocker community.
Conservative axe-man Ted Nugent’s Wang Dang Sweet Poontang is also reported as a possible choice.
I think you got the drift of it, Sheree.
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don’t they help themselves, oh.
But when the taxman comes to the door,
Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yes,
It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no.
Likewise use of Nugent’s ‘Stranglehold’ would be strangely inappropriate given their candidates’ weak grasp of reality.
Hardly a stranglehold grip….
All I know is that the rest of us (the 98%) might as well start singing ‘I Ain’t No Fortunate Son’ by Creedence Clearwater. It would be appropriate.
Well, Sheree, as you know, they’d stick almost entirely to Ted “The Noodge” Nugent… and what could be bad about that?
Sure, his music sucks, and it’s not anthemic, and it doesn’t move anyone emotionally or anything like that… but still… Freedom!
If they did, what would writers do without that good old GOP hypocrisy?
Republicans have got to start asking for permission to use these things. Don’t they know that stars are all members of the Hollywood elite?