The latest band to unwittingly stumble into the minefield of political song usage is Heart, who immediately took offence at Republican Sarah Palin's use of their 1977 track Barracuda as some sort of celebratory tune at the Republican National Convention. "Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women," Heart's Nancy Wilson angrily told Entertainment Weekly.
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Barack Obama has proved that his music policies are firmly set in the MOR camp after approaching LA/Devonshire soul lass Joss Stone to write and record his election campaign song. Yawn, BO...
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The scramble for the big chair at the White House and popular celebrity parlour game Who Likes Obama The Most provides yet another story allied to a musical personage. So today we have Toby Keith, country star and apparent advocate of lynching, planting his horrible, pointy size 12 cowboy boots in it. Says Keith, 'he talks, acts and carries himself as a Caucasian.'
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Barack Obama once said that Ludacris was one of his favourite rappers. So Lud has returned the favour with new Barack-backing track Politics. Get a room... but wait. The presidential candidate's now changed his mind, and isn't happy with some of the rapper's rudeness...
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Poor old Gordon Brown. While everybody in the UK political playground makes merry hell, over in the land of the free, it is all very different. But while Barack has his Obama Girl, our PM has nary a D:Ream...
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Last week Nas confirmed his support for "honest" presidential wannabe Barack Obama. Now he's stepping up to the activist plate, heading a protest against right-wing news station FOX and its "pattern of racist attacks against Black Americans including... Barack Obama and his wife Michelle."
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Back in March, we were honoured to be given Bjork's very first post-Tibet-controversy interview. In belated response, the Chinese government this week issued a blanket ban on all entertainers from overseas who have ever taken part in activities that "threaten national sovereignty".
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It should come as no surprise that devoted controversialist Nas despises George Bush, but the way he put it in a new interview with Rolling Stone is particularly forceful: Bush "made everyone feel like n****rs"...
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While he's not busy de-anti-racism-ing the city's festivals, London mayor and professional posho Boris Johnson is speaking out about the positive effect of pop stars on knife crime.
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