ICE’s “End of the Dark Age” Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of MGMT Song
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ICE’s “End of the Dark Age” Video Hit with DMCA Takedown Over Use of MGMT Song
Posted by FlyGloomy1
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>”Policemen swear to god, love seeping from their guns.”
>”Forgiving who you are, for what you stand to gain/just know that if you hide, it doesn’t go away.”
>”If you get out of bed, come find us heading/For the bridge, bring a stone, all the rage, my little dark age”
The lack of critical analysis of words shouldn’t startle me anymore, yet here we are.
As someone for whom MGMT was a profound influence since 2008, this sucks and good on them for fighting it.
MGMT is one of my favorite bands, I’m glad they are not standing for this bs.
I went to college with the members of MGMT at Wesleyan, a most progressively liberal of liberal arts colleges. There was no way – NOOOOO WAYYYYY – this was going to go well for ICE lol. Definitely happy they are standing against this
The accompanying video is one of the most dystopian videos I have ever seen. Even without the knowledge of the song being *co-opted by neo-Nazis*, it’s slowed down to an ominous, horrible degree. The editing is trippy and backwards – it genuinely makes you feel a bit nauseous at the end. On top of the glorifying of police brutality, deportation and aggression.