{"id":494994,"date":"2026-02-28T04:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494994\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:55:09","slug":"radiohead-demands-ice-remove-their-music-from-new-advert-it-aint-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/494994\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead demands ICE remove their music from new advert: \u2018It ain\u2019t funny\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Radiohead<\/a> have issued a blunt joint statement after their song \u201cLet Down\u201d was used in a social media video by U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The clip, posted to ICE social media accounts, uses a choral version of the song over a montage of alleged victims of violence carried out by \u201cillegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement to The Independent, Radiohead said: \u201cWe demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. It ain\u2019t funny, this song means a lot to us and other people, and you don\u2019t get to appropriate it without a fight. <\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, go f*** yourselves,\u201d the band continued before signing off, \u201cRadiohead.\u201d <\/p>\n

It is not the first time this month the band\u2019s members have found themselves at odds with the Trump administration. <\/a><\/p>\n

\"RadioheadRadiohead frontman Thom Yorke, whose band have told ICE to \u2018go f*** yourselves\u2019 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, the band\u2019s guitarist Jonny Greenwood<\/a> and director Paul Thomas Anderson asked for a segment of music from their 2017 film Phantom Thread to be removed from Melania Trump\u2019s controversial Amazon documentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The musician, who composed the score for the film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, alleged in a statement that the usage of the music was a breach of his composer agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary,\u201d Greenwood and Anderson\u2019s representatives said in a joint statement obtained by Variety.<\/p>\n

His attorneys claimed that while Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, the film\u2019s distributor, Universal, \u201cfailed to consult Jonny on this third-party use, which is a breach of his composer agreement. As a result, Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film includes a long excerpt of \u201cBarbara Rose\u201d, a song the Radiohead guitarist composed for Anderson\u2019s film.<\/p>\n

The Brett Ratner<\/a>-directed documentary, which followed the first lady in the 20 days leading up to her husband\u2019s second inauguration, earned $13.35 million domestically <\/a>after two weekends of release, exceeding box office projections thanks, in part, to organized groups of Republican women who have made up a large portion of the audience.<\/p>\n

The film has been critically panned across the board, receiving a one-star review fromThe Independent\u2019s Nick Hilton, <\/a>who wrote: \u201cPerhaps Melania is merely a piece of post-modern post-entertainment. After all, it is transparently not a documentary.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent years, Greenwood has been a more active film composer than rock musician, writing or contributing to the scores for 12 films, including One Battle After Another, There Will Be Blood and Licorice Pizza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-494994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}