{"id":9019,"date":"2026-02-27T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/radiohead-let-down-ice-video\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:00:08","slug":"radiohead-let-down-ice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/radiohead-let-down-ice-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead Decries \u2018Let Down\u2019 Use In ICE Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/09\/EDP378-012_credit-Tom-Sheehan-scaled-1.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1703\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>(photo: Tom Sheehan).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Radiohead is promising a fight after a choral version of its classic song \u201cLet Down\u201d was used without permission in a post on the U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Control\u2019s official Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand that the amateurs in control of the I.C.E. social media account take it down,\u201d the band says in a statement released today (Feb. 27). \u201cIt ain\u2019t funny. This song means a lot to us and other people, and you don\u2019t get to appropriate it without a fight.\u00a0Also, go fuck yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/nine-inch-nails-reimagine-tron-ares-soundtrack\/\">Nine Inch Nails Reimagine \u2018Tron: Ares\u2019 Soundtrack<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/codefendants-jakob-nowell-lonely-life\/\">Codefendants Rage Against The Algorithm With Jakob Nowell<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-colin-blunstone-of-the-zombies\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without: Colin\u00a0Blunstone of the Zombies<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The I.C.E. video presents a montage of victims of violence allegedly perpetrated by \u201cillegal aliens\u201d who have been \u201craping and murdering\u201d Americans. Its accompanying text says, \u201cthousands of American families have been torn apart because of criminal illegal alien violence. American citizens raped and murdered by those who have no right to be in our country. This is who we fight for. This is our why.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long seen as a message of hope amid loss and confusion, \u201cLet Down\u201d was released on Radiohead\u2019s 1997 album <em>OK Computer<\/em> and is one of the band\u2019s most-streamed songs on Spotify, with more than 690 million plays.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time in recent weeks that Radiohead and its members have been on the wrong end of a music licensing dispute. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/02\/jonny-greenwood-music-melania\/\">Earlier this month<\/a>, guitarist Jonny Greenwood demanded that a portion of the score he wrote for the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film\u00a0<em>Phantom Thread<\/em>\u00a0be removed from the recent documentary\u00a0<em>Melania<\/em>. The artist said Universal failed to consult him on the usage, in breach of his composer agreement.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo: Tom Sheehan). 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