Radiohead have issued a strongly worded demand that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) remove a social media video that uses their song 'Let Down'. The clip, posted on ICE accounts, features a choral version of the track over a montage of alleged victims of violence committed by 'illegal aliens'.
In a statement to The Independent, the band said: 'We demand that the amateurs in control of the ICE social media account take it down. 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.' The statement concluded with the words: 'Also, go f*** yourselves. Radiohead.'
This is not the first time members of Radiohead have clashed with the Trump administration this month. Two weeks ago, guitarist Jonny Greenwood and director Paul Thomas Anderson requested that a segment of music from the 2017 film Phantom Thread be removed from Melania Trump's Amazon documentary.
Greenwood, who composed the score, alleged through representatives that the use of the piece 'Barbara Rose' was a breach of his composer agreement. The documentary, directed by Brett Ratner, followed the first lady in the lead-up to Donald Trump's second inauguration and was critically panned.
