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Why British band Chumbawamba has spoken out
The British pop collective Chumbawamba has publicly demanded that Spain’s right-wing party Vox stop using their iconic 1997 hit Tubthumping in political posts and campaign material. The band said Vox’s recent use of the song in a social media post promoting a hard-line immigration message shows a misunderstanding of the track’s origins and intentions. The song, famous for its defiant chorus “I… Source
Those who were members of the British band, Boff Whalley and Alice Nutter, have asked Facebook to remove from the platform the publication that Santiago Abascal accompanies with the song 'Tubthumping'
The British anarchopunk group Chumbawamba has protested Vox's use of his most famous song in his campaign in Aragon.
Vox’s electoral campaign in Aragon has been spattered by protests thousands of miles away from a British musical collective. The use of a song by the band Chumbawamba in one of the videos Santiago Abascal has used to promote his party’s candidacy in the upcoming Aragonese elections has been received with stupor and indignation by its authors. “The neighbors are fed up with the immigration invasion. And we are with them,” said the text accompanyi…
Chumbawamba Demands Vox Not to Use His Success “Tubthumping” for His “Intolerant and Hateful” Agenda
Abascal had used his best-known song for a Facebook post in which he wrote: “Neighbors are fed up with the immigration invasion. And we are with them.” The group has asked Meta to withdraw the post.Main topics: VoxRead full article
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