Radiohead have condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s use of their song “Let Down” in a recent video, confirming the song was used without permission and calling for the video to be taken down.
“We demand that the amateurs in control of the Ice social media account take it down,” the band said in a statement. “It ain’t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don’t get to appropriate it without a fight. Also, go fuck yourselves.”
The statement comes after Ice used a choral version of the track in a video on X earlier this month, with the song and video accompanies by a caption that said that “American citizens raped and murdered by those who have no right to be in our country.”
It’s not the Trump administration’s first dust-up with members of the influential English rock group.