Everybody hates Michele Bachmann, especially the composer and performer of the classic rock song “American Girl,” which Grandma Bachmann has been illegally using at her campaign events.
Tom Petty may be taking legal action to make sure Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann stops using his songs at her campaign events.
“NBC News: @TomPetty unhappy with Michele Bachmann’s use of ‘American Girl’ and in process of issuing [a cease and desist] letter,” Matt Ortega reported on Twitter only hours after hours after Bachmann used the popular song to kick off her campaign ….
Petty also issued a cease and desist letter to then-Governor George W. Bush for illegally using “I won’t back down” at his rallies.
Petty’s lawyers suggested Bachmann should instead use his cover version of the Count Five’s “Psychotic Reaction.” [Raw Story]
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Looks like she will have to use Elton John's "The Bitch is Back"
Doesn't Marcus have to "Bowdlerize" it first?
Followed by "Stupid Girl" by the Stones.
I would prefer her "Under My Thumb."
I think Gnarls Barkley 'Crazy' is too hip. Maybe the Patsy Cline (actual crazy person) version?
She's conveniently too dead to complain too.
Written by Willie Nelson, but Patsy made it her own.
Maybe Ozzy will let her use "Crazy Train".
I thought she'd use the Village People's I.O.W.A.
It's fun to stay in I.O.W.A
It's fun to stay in I.O.W.A.
They have everything that you need to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys …
Is there no song titled "I'm a Mean, Dumb Cunt"?
Given the attention to her looks, I'd like to see Bongwater's "The Power of Pussy". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q559R0DFXz4&playnext=...
Nah, too much attitude
Elton's enough of a money whore that as long as Michelle pays him, he'll let her
I hope he stipulates that he has to appear with her in a widely shown TV ad and he dresses in full concert regalia.
pink floyd. "mother". hands down. maximum creep factor.
Little Miss Can't Be Wrong by the Spindoctors?
Seems appropriate on several levels.
Crazy Train by Ozzy
American Idiot by Green Day
I've Always Been Crazy by Waylon Jennings
Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon
Stone Cold Crazy /Killer Queen by Queen
Let's Go Crazy by Prince
Crazy Crazy Mama by Roky Erickson
Copyrights and royalties are oh so socialist.
Or communist, or fascist…they all mean the same thing to teatards, right?
Yeah, meaning: People we disagree with.
Actually they're completely the opposite of socialist, so I don't think even a fucking idiot like Bachmann would try to argue that.
Intellectual property is theft!
Oh please someone suggest she start saying that.
Intellectual property?!! Michelle Bachmann?!!
There's magical realism. Then there's surrealism. Then there's this.
I'd issue ol' Crazy Eyes a cease and desist order just on general principles, for everything, also, too.
Needs more ASCAP.
Or a cap in her ass.
"Or a cap in her ass."
Typical violent rhetoric.
"Crazy Eyes" was the title track of an album by country-rock pioneers Poco. Sadly the song is a little downbeat (it was about that life-affirming fun guy Gram Parsons), so Bachman probably couldn't be convinced to go for it.
Also, it's too long for her attention span. On the other hand, Richie Furay is a born-again Christian minister. Maybe he can be persuaded.
Cease and desist breathing……..
Petty will next sue Christine O'Donnell for stealing "Don't Do Me Like That"
He's only upset because American Girl was used in Silence Of The Lambs and has nothing to do with John Wayne Gacy.
This is Hitlerist against Michele.
Watch out for Jebus, Tom Petty. He casts a mean lightning strike.
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Jebus burned Petty's house down almost 25 years ago, he rebuilt with all fire retardant materials, so he's probably not gonna lose any sleep.
Maybe he'd let her use "Zombie Zoo", that would be far more apt.
If your Politifact scorecard is sub-zero in the truth department, is launching your doomed campaign in a place called Waterloo really a good idea?
Michele could use this, with a few lyrical changes.
Free Basin'
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Tom is soooooooooooo, well, petty…
Haha just kidding, I'm with you Tom, to hell with that vaginal scab, don't let her use your songs.
I guess the Patsy Cline Estate would not give the rights to "Crazy."
Actually, she'd need to talk to Willie Nelson, but I don't think he'd be interested in helping her out.
True. I think he is supporting Ron Cannabis Paul.
Then perhaps go to Warner Brothers for the theme from Looney Tones?
Needs more cannabis.
Think Wonkette reported that he briefly supported the non-Paul Randroid – the pro-pot former New Mexico Governor who's so inconsequential I can't remember his name – then learned about some of his other positions and apologized.
Didn't Perot already use that one?
Alan Jackson: "Where were you when they built a ladder to heaven?"
But God told her it was okay — why is Tom Petty lynching Michele with his sexist cease and desist order? Will the violence never end?
Wouldn't 'Breakdown' be more appropriate?
This is making me want to listen to Petty & the Heartbreakers…
I just watched Bogdanovich's 4-hour documentary on TP/HB last week. It certainly got him back in the heavy ipod rotation. What a phenomenal career that dude has had.
Go ahead and give it to me.
It's OK if you must go
I'll understand if you don't
You say goodbye right now
I'll still survive somehow
Why should we let this drag on?
Tom said it was OK to use 'Don't Come Around Here No More' though, cause that's just the kind of guy he is–always lookin' out for the rest of us.
How about "Don't come around here no more"? Oh wait, that one's earmarked for the Palin clan.
Dammit! Beat me to it.
Here's another great song they won't be able to commandeer. And you know why? Because teabaggers are just not cool.
Green Day has the perfect song for Bachmann! Do you think we can convince her to use "American Idiot"?
Maybe she needs to see if she can use Buck Cherry's "Crazy Bitch"?
If not, there's always "Stupid Girl" by the Stones.
Runnin' down a scheme.
"Don't come around here no more"
I'm pretty sure that is too many words for Palin comprehension success. And that would be bad news for us.
Been eaten by lesbians, terrorized
Given press conferences hypnotized
Overexposed and televised
Handle me with care
I would have thought "American Woman" more appropriate.
American Woman/
Stay away from me/
American Woman/
Mama let me be
Especially given that Randy Bachman was with the band when they composed it…
reminds me, "She's Come Undone" might work. Also "She's Lost Control" (Joy Division), though I'd probably give the final nod to the Guess Who.
"Confusion in her eyes that says it all"
NAILED IT
Colored lights can hypnotize/
Not sure that's quite the right way to reach out to "the blacks".
Sparkle someone else's eyes!!!
She could try the Lenny Kravitz version – oh but then he's both, you know, very urban and, you know, one of those Hollywood elites that's very good with money; so doubly offensive to her base.
I tip my hat to you good sir that was grand.
I think this is the song she needs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C8UXZrN9UY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hedIexysvK4
okay, so I never thought of "American Girl" as a great theme song for a woman, especially a dumb hag like Michele Bachmann.
"Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is probably available, if she wants to use that.
Bravo.
She oughta have "The Nuge" fire up his stacks and burn out a campaign song for her. Anyone who could have come up with "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" surely has the artistic chops to make an anthem for Michele.
Cat scratch fever could work, it would explain her crazy eyes. I am especially sure she will like the part "with a stroke of my hand I can make a pussy purr" Now THAT'S the family values I'm talkin' about!
Just get Mike Huckabee to come out and play bass with Ted again.
Because that's the kind of loser he is.
"God it's so painful when something that's so close
Is still so far out of reach"
may be a good description of her presidential ambitions, though. Except the "so close" part.
What's the deal with that lady?
maybe…Bachmann Fever?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MONIvP6kI
Well, Eminem has had issues with homosexuals, so maybe? But he's also been on welfare.
I tried to think of conservative country/western song writers but really couldn't. I imagine most of the hero songwriters (Willie, Johnny Cash-RIP, Waylon, Kristofferson) had/have left leanings. And most of the songwriters penning the drivel coming out of Nashville these days are probably covertly gay…see Chesney, Kenny.
Pretty much leaves Charlie Daniels.
She didn't want "Takin' Care of Business" by … wait for it … BTO?
I prefer Garbage's "Stupid Girl", myself.
Oh yes. My entire twenties were a series of impure thoughts about Shirley Manson.
And if Michele uses it, she'll think it's from Charles Manson.
"Egg-cellent!"–Montgomery Burns.
Nitwit. She should just be selectively clipping from La Marseillaise:
To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows…
….these bloody despots
These accomplices of
BouilléObamaAll these tigers who pitilessly
Ripped out their mothers' wombs
I better get a fucking commission outta this. Or at least one of her inorganically farmed kids to work my fields. It's only right.
Or Serge Gainsbourg's reggae version.
I love Serge Gainsbourg, he has that perfect thing going , Jewish AND French. My dream three-way would be him and Sami Frey, they also both figure heavily in my Resistance fantasy life .
Commie rocker sues wingnut pol over misused and misconstrued song. Jesus, this meme or trope or whatever is getting old. Hey fascists, stick to the country-ass artists and save on your legal bills!!
Even that isn't safe – Dixie Chicks, anyone?
Steve Earle?
Last dance with Michele Jane
One more time to bring the pain
Deutschland Uber Alles
Not that the Pixies would probably let her use it, but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4&fe…
Meanwhile, Ted Nugent is begging Michele to start her campaign events with "Yank Me, Crank Me".
Not Wang Dang Sweet Poontang, followed by Stranglehold?
Ted always had that poetic spark with words.
And Ray Stevens has already filmed campaign videos for theSnowbilly Grifter, so he won't be available.
Comrade Bachmann has no respect for private (intellectual) property!
To be successful, Michele must be inclusive. L'Internationale or GTFO.
Drats I've been p blocked!
A lot of book publishers would be fine with eliminating copyright and replacing it with publication rights only, since that way they don't have to keep paying those whiny author types.
Stinkin’ Constitution gets in the way, though, again. “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
Wise-ass emphasis added!
"For limited times, that keep getting extended after lobbying from Disney and Warner Brothers every time early Mickey Mouse cartoons and Superman and Batman comics near entering the public domain" is how it works now though.
Well, it was the French and other WIPO countries who were to blame for us moving to life of author plus 70, but then Sonny Bono got in the act to resurrect a bunch of stuff that was in the public domain and add an extra 20 years, so it really is both a left and right problem.
The reason why they all use "God Bless the USA" isn't because they're sucking up to voters as much as it's the only song they can play without having the songwriter tell them to stop playing it
The whole song is about how Americana drivel ("raised on promises") fell flat and the girl ran away, only to be alone on a balcony and probably thinking about jumping.
If only Michele would follow it literally.
Poor Petty has to do this at least twice every election mainly because Republicans forget that Petty told them not to do it four years before
Either that, or they figure he'll just give up defending his property.
Fuck, this is right up there with various GOP types using "Little Pink Houses" and "Born in the USA" without getting the ironic/pissed off nature of the lyrics. GOP candidates really should be forced to hire someone to explain this shit to them.
As usual, yer right as rain Berkeley. But since they aren't likely to hire a Ricky Ricardo fill-in to do the proper 'splain 'bout words and their meaning(s), then let's try to convince her to rise above the level, and copyright problems, with pop music. L'Internationale is public domain here in the US. All we need to do is get one of the dimwitted trolls that pass through here to take some heroic music back to our next President. Just save the tune as a MP3 titled Bachmann_overture.mp3 and see if they bite.
Remember when the New Jersey state legislature came really close to naming Born to Run their official state song? I suspect that they knew full well what the lyrics mean.
Britney Spears is a Republitard/has been committed to a mental institution (same thing!). Maybe Britney will let Michele use one of her songs. "Toxic" is a good one to describe Michele's campaign.
Awhile ago someone here suggested "Far Away Eyes" by The Rolling Stones. It was perfect and stuck in my head for about a week. Sorry I don't know how to do the youtube link thingy and my teenager has gone to bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4k13LmlcUE
I don't know which of Beeblebrox's heads thought of it but Tom ought to make her apologize for stealing ala Charlie Crist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4k13LmlcUE
Crazy
"Little Intellectual Property", the people who actually produce works, get fucked up the ass by all of this. The solution is not to eliminate intellectual property for everyone; it's fairness for creators.
Aw shucks, y'all are right!
Perhaps they should all just stick to John Philip Sousa.
She should contact Beck about using Loser for her theme song. It's a perfect fit.
Sorry, but that song uses the Mexican language in the chorus. Verboten!!
She should contact Green Day for permission to use American Idiot.
I'm sure Ted Nugent would let her use "Cat Scratch Fever."
Tom, let her use: "Don't Come Round Here Anymore." Pleeze?
John Philip Sousa goes so well with all the 'merkin flags they wave around.
Woo hoo, witchy woman,
She got the moon in her eyes.
Christine O'Donnell's got that one on lock-down.
Oh right — my bad. They're sort of interchangeable in my mind. The main difference being that one of them denies being a witch … and the other one doesn't.
Cameo, "She's Strange": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUgsmsvSYow
Lee Greenwood?
Jim Morrison singing Riders on the Storm has a perfect fit sound for Michele.
David Allen Coe?
Hmm. Exactly like Heart dropped a cease-&-desist on Palin's ass for stealing "Barracuda" … what a coincidence. This is the latest of a dozen or so such coincidences by now, is it not?
Having to steal good songs because the ones emitted by your message-music minstrels all blow goats = STAIRWAY TO FAILURE.
It seems that our unemployed little f(r)iend, Downsyndrome T. McFistula, has been through, blessing us with his expertise on all things musical.
My understanding is that Petty wanted her first to prove that she was American before she could use the song.
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