Trump’s campaign also tried to use Beyonce’s “Freedom,” but stopped when she threatened to sue

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As a Canadian, his music is like crack to me

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Lol I saw him at a musical festival near Barrie like 8 years ago, and I remember someone from the group beside me saying “I swear to god if he says Monsanto one more time…” and then then the literal next song started with a big power chord and “Mooonnnssaaaaaannnntoooooo” and they stood up and left.

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Lol that’s what I’ve heard. I adore his folk music, but his concerts I hear just devolve into shitty political rallies.

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That’s actually hilarious

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The song is “Rockin’ in the Free World”. Hopefully Young asked Walz, “are you sure you want to use that one?”

There’s colors on the street
Red, white, and blue
People shuffling their feet
People sleeping in their shoes
There’s a warning sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people saying we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it any way I can

[Chorus]

I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
There’s an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she put the kid away and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that’ll never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool

[Chorus]

We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We’ve got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive

[Chorus]

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It actually makes sense as a campaigning song to me as long as your platform is about trying to address the social problems the song is highlighting.

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WHERE IS MY TOILET PAPER?

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I guarantee Walz knows what it’s about, and he chose it for that reason.

Hes one smaht cookie, kid.

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I find it incredibly unlikely that he’s going to enter into a conversation on American failures and cruelty as a VP candidate for the party currently in the White House.

But I would be damned impressed if he ended up coming out to “we got a thousand points of light for the homeless man, we got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand” rather than the chorus. Worried, but impressed.

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Wicked smaht,

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Many people don’t listen to the main lyrics or understand the meaning of songs, but just like the chorus.

“Born in the USA” is another example.

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Which was used for NJ in the roll call. I laughed a bit.

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It’s questionable there, but it’s a hell of a song so they could be earnestly saying Springsteen was a NJ treasure for writing a fantastic protest song. Buuuut… they probably just liked the assumed pride of the chorus.

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AMERICAN WOMAN

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Which is also a song by a Canadian band 😅

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Or Paul Ryan and anything by RAtM.

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Same as the Magaites dancing to Killing In The Name a while back during the BLM protests. It was obvious that the only part of the song they cared about was “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me”

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I’d love to hear one of them answer who were the “forces” that burn crosses. Probably some sort of imaginary vaccine cop.

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a team is one your comment just reminded me of, thanks.

And some mandatory songs that always came up that my memory serves… semi charmed life by third eye blind, hey ya by outcast, every breath you take by the police, escape (Pina colada song) by Rupert Holmes, macarena …

Ok I got bored trying to remember them all if anyone wants to add …

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“Hook” by Blues Traveller. “Pumped Up Kicks” by Foster the People.

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The DNC had permission for every song in the roll call. That was a major flex, and endorsement from all of those artists.

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yep

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