So who in the music business is really supporting Mitt Romney? Not many people! Beside Meat Loaf’s recent over-the-top endorsement, Kid Rock’s loyalty and a few other white cowboys' enthusiasm for the Mormon candidate, who is there? It is a musical desert despite Romney’s (and Ryan’s) desperate efforts to sound cool by bragging about their iPod cool content and their hip musical tastes.
Romney even approached the Killers (which he has admitted to be a fan of), trying to reach out to Brandon Flowers who shares the same Mormon religion, but even this move wasn’t enough, as the Killers preferred to stay neutral on the subjuect.
Katy Perry was seen recently performing with a ballot-dress with a clear check mark for Obama, and Stephen Stills recently declared to Rolling Stone: ‘I never in my lifetime thought I would see a creepier politician than Richard Nixon, but in the last few days, it became clear that Willard Mitt Romney is really, really creepy. Icky creepy, as my granddaughter would put it. ‘
During their campaign Romeny and Ryan have been slammed over and over by outraged artists whose music had been used without their authorization… What’s left for them?
But the coup de grace was just brought by Ice Cube on Thursday, with a new video for his single ‘Everythang's Corrupt’, from his upcoming LP of the same name. With a little help from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, who had already some personal beef with the one of the candidates, the song and video are very politically charged with clips of Romney and Obama, going all over the cultural spectrum, denouncing corruption in everything from politics to sports and education.
‘He just reminds me of somebody who's trying to sell me a Mercedes Benz,' declared Cube to Rolling Stone, talking about Romney. ‘He'll tell me that it looks good on me and this is my color and I can afford it and everything, just to get the sale. It's astonishing that people are buying into that at the rate they are.’
Inspired by the 99% Occupy Wall Street movement, it certainly not a coincidence if this powerful video is released just before the elections next week!