Remember Leonard Cohen...

[badbabysitter]

Because his estate sure hasnt forgot the RNC's unauthorized use of his music

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/20...nald-trump-for-unauthorized-use-of-hallelujah

Michelle L. Rice, legal representative of Leonard Cohen’s estate, wrote “we are surprised and dismayed that the RNC would proceed knowing that the Cohen Estate had specifically declined the RNC’s use request, and their rather brazen attempt to politicize and exploit in such an egregious manner 'Hallelujah', one of the most important songs in the Cohen song catalogue.”

With an added flourish, she commented that had the RNC requested Cohen’s “You Want It Darker,” they may have reconsidered.

 

[YNow]

Fuck him

Fuck the estate

Fuck.you

 

[Bad_Egg]

Did Leonard Cohen sing "I'm Henry the 8th I am, Henry the 8th I am, I am..."

.....

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Because his estate sure hasnt forgot the RNC's unauthorized use of his music

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/20...nald-trump-for-unauthorized-use-of-hallelujah

Michelle L. Rice, legal representative of Leonard Cohen’s estate, wrote “we are surprised and dismayed that the RNC would proceed knowing that the Cohen Estate had specifically declined the RNC’s use request, and their rather brazen attempt to politicize and exploit in such an egregious manner 'Hallelujah', one of the most important songs in the Cohen song catalogue.”

With an added flourish, she commented that had the RNC requested Cohen’s “You Want It Darker,” they may have reconsidered.

heh heh heh

I was about to do this parody flex myself as soon as homeboy did that struggle thread, then I lost interest. Thanx.

 

[Ziggins]

Democracy could fit the election of a populist president, but the time to use it was four years ago. "Democracy is coming to the USA" doesn't work so well for a second term. He died after the convention, one day before the election.

 

[Rightguide]

Fuck him

Fuck the estate

Fuck.you

Fuck Vanity Fair, as well...with a fence post.

 

[albertaboy]

Saw him a couple of years before he died, great show.

 

[HisArpy]

On Election Day in 2018, Neil Young posted a frustrated statement about President Trump.

Three years earlier, Mr. Trump had used Mr. Young’s song “Rockin’ in the Free World” — a protest against injustice — when announcing his campaign, drawing Mr. Young’s ire. With the divisive midterms underway, Mr. Young once again complained, yet said he had no legal recourse to stop Mr. Trump from using his music.

“Legally, he has the right to,” Mr. Young wrote on his website, “however it goes against my wishes.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/arts/music/neil-young-donald-trump-lawsuit.html

When artists attempt to politicize permission to play their works, they act outside the law and they have no legal recourse no matter how loudly they squeal.

Neil Young's most recent lawsuit will go the way of his prior one.

 

[LLCox]

R I P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi9s2b2E6A

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wbys4ErNg94/hqdefault.jpg