Rock Stars Slam GOP for Using Their Songs for Campaigns
R.E.M. took to Facebook to comment on Donald Trump and Ted Cruz using the band's song at a Tea Party rally. This comes days after Survivor founding member Frankie Sullivan talked to Rolling Stone about Mike Huckabee and Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis, who refused to give out gay marriage licenses, used "Eye of the Tiger" at a rally for Davis after she was released from jail. "I do not like mixing rock and roll with politics they do not go hand in hand," Sullivan told Rolling Stone. "What upset me most was that, once again, my song was being used to further a political agenda  and no one even bothered to ask for permission.", It's far from the first time politicians have stirred up trouble in the music world. In 2000, John Mellencamp's agents asked George W. Bush's team to stop using his song "R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A," and in 2012, Rage Against the Machine's guitarist Tom Morello wrote an opinion piece against Paul Ryan, calling him "the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades."