ICE removes MGMT’s ‘Little Dark Age’ from ‘promotional’ post after band hits back

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Department of Homeland Security forced to remove MGMT little dark ages Kill From ICE Recruitment Drive on social media after the band issued a takedown request.

MGMT accuses Dept of using their 2017 track song “promotional video” In a statement.

Video shared by DHS on October 23 shows federal agents arresting protesters outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon.

It was titled: “End of the Dark Age, Beginning of the Golden Age.”

“MGMT is aware of “Little Dark Age” being featured in a promotional video by the Department of Homeland Security and has issued a takedown request for the unauthorized use of its music,” the band said in a brief statement on Instagram.

The Department of Homeland Security was forced to remove MGMT's Little Dark Ages hit from an ICE recruitment campaign social media post after the band issued a removal request.

The Department of Homeland Security was forced to remove MGMT’s Little Dark Ages hit from an ICE recruitment campaign social media post after the band issued a removal request. ,getty images,

DHS completely removed the video from my X account but it remains on Instagram Without the track of MGMT. Video and song remain on DHS blue sky Account till Saturday night.

MGMT, formed by Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser in 2002, revealed that the single, from an album of the same name, was written after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election.

“Apparently we were more inspired to write pop music after evil took over the world,” VanWyngarden explained. rolling stone In 2018.

The band’s angry fans commented on Homeland Security’s Instagram post before the song was removed.

MGMT, formed by Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser in 2002, revealed that the song was written after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election.

MGMT, formed by Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser in 2002, revealed that the song was written after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election. ,getty images,

“MGMT would never support this,” one fan wrote. “Please do not use his music to further your disturbing and hateful narrative.”

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Another said, “Ironically, a little dark ages is about how bad this kind of shit is.”

Someone else posted, “Little Dark Ages is literally about the dark days of Trump’s first presidency.”

In recent years the song has been appropriated by far-right groups. According to one, it was “by far the most popular sound among extremist creators on TikTok” after becoming part of a viral trend on the social media platform in 2021. report By the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in the UK

Other artists have sued DHS for copyright removal for using their music on social media content promoting the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.

DHS had to delete a social media post earlier this month for using The Cure friday I’m in love.

Over the summer, the department even had to delete a post after Jay Z used public service announcement To boost ICE recruitment.

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